{"id":11974,"date":"2015-12-11T22:54:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11974"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:54:31","slug":"executive-orders-go-with-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11974","title":{"rendered":"Executive orders go with the job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Law-Concept-300x270.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11975\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Law-Concept-300x270-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Law-Concept-300x270\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presidents serve as the nation&#8217;s &#8220;chief executive&#8221; and, therefore, have the constitutional authority that goes with the title.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting graph came across my radar this afternoon. It comes with a year-old story, but it&#8217;s still rather fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have been pummeling President Obama by alleging that he&#8217;s too quick to issue executive orders, that he circumvents Congress too willingly.<\/p>\n<p>The graph tells a fascinating tale of just how the 44th president has under-utilized the executive authority granted to him by the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/every-presidents-executive-actions-in-one-chart\/?ex_cid=story-facebook\">Take a look at the graph.<\/a>\u00a0You&#8217;ll see a number of interesting things.<\/p>\n<p>One is an obvious point. President Franklin Roosevelt is the all-time champ at issuing presidential executive orders. No surprise there: He served three full terms and was elected to a fourth term before dying in office in April 1945.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting, though, to look at who&#8217;s No. 2 in the executive authority rating. It&#8217;s FDR&#8217;s immediate predecessor, President Hoover, who served just one term.<\/p>\n<p>A Democrat is No. 1, a Republican is No. 2, while Democratic President Woodrow Wilson is a close third.<\/p>\n<p>That power-hungry and allegedly &#8220;lawless&#8221; 44th president, Barack H. Obama? He&#8217;s issued the fewest executive orders since President Grover Cleveland. (I&#8217;ll add here that the numbers of presidential executive orders are as of Oct. 20,\u00a02014.)<\/p>\n<p>So, I guess my question is this: What&#8217;s the beef with the current president&#8217;s use of the executive authority?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidents serve as the nation&#8217;s &#8220;chief executive&#8221; and, therefore, have the constitutional authority that goes with the title. An interesting graph came across my radar this afternoon. It comes with a year-old story, but it&#8217;s still rather fascinating. Republicans have been pummeling President Obama by alleging that he&#8217;s too quick to issue executive orders, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11974\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Executive orders go with the job<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,1343,1665,1695,2106,3917],"class_list":["post-11974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrats","tag-executive-orders","tag-fdr","tag-herbert-hoover","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11976,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions\/11976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}