A list of all of the Executive Orders put in place by Presidents

[thewayne]

Friends sent this to me (thanks, Rich & Karyn!), it's something that I've wanted to see for a long time.

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo/index.html

Comments

[quasar273.livejournal.com]

It isn't a monotonic progression with more coming from each President. George H.W. Bush made very few (2?). But it's certainly noticeable that the scrollbar is only halfway down the page when '01 starts. Also noticeable that there were none from GWB before 9/11 but they came thick and fast after.

[silveradept]

And are continuing to arrive in pairs, packs, or otherwise. This whole "unitary executive" thing probably helps to propagate more EOs than before, as the Amdinistration tries to find and exploit more loopholes in the process.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Bush has made more EO's and signing statements than ALL the presidents before him combined.

I don't think our system of government was that thoroughly broken to require that amount of executive correction.

[silveradept]

It's not, as far as I know. The people in it might be that thoroughly borked, but the system itself seems to do all right.

With Mr. Bush, it seems to be more grabs for power and trying to cover his own arse on things that are probably unethical, if not illegal, running the executive branch like an oligarchy answerable to none, rather than the branch of government that faithfully executes the laws that have been promulgated by the legislature, subject to modification by the opinions of the judiciary.