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> George W Bush vastly expanded the use of executive orders. Libs like myself complained about that to no end.

> Then Obama came in and did it even more!

What are you basing that on? How are you arriving at either 1) W expanding the use of executive orders, or 2) Obama doing it even more?

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I did some wikipedia'ing and it doesn't look like its based on reality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...

News radio strikes again. Thanks for the correction.

Sheer count's not everything. I thought maybe there was some other analysis that'd support the assertions (first thing I did was check that page, which certainly doesn't support them).

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