Number of Executive Orders by U.S. President
...
Theodore Roosevelt : 1,081
William Howard Taft : 724
Woodrow Wilson : 1,803
Warren G. Harding : 522
Calvin Coolidge : 1,203
Herbert Hoover : 968
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 3,721
Harry S. Truman : 907
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 484
John F. Kennedy : 214
Lyndon B. Johnson : 325
Richard Nixon : 346
Gerald R. Ford : 169
Jimmy Carter : 320
Ronald Reagan : 381
George H.W. Bush : 166
Bill Clinton : 364
George W. Bush : 291
Barack Obama : 203

http://www.presidency.ucs...orders.php

I don't know about anyone else, but I am really enjoying watching the House Republicans going down in flames over this whole Homeland Security funding issue.

When guys like Peter King, who I regard as a wing nut, denounce them, you know the Tea Party has really gone off the deep end this time.

Republican Rep. Peter King of New York said his party's wounds are self-inflicted.

"Politically it's going to kill us," he said of conservatives' demands to link Homeland Security funding with Obama's immigration policy. "Morally, you're equating an immigration order with the lives of American citizens."

"I've had it with this self-righteous delusional wing of the party that leads us over the cliff," King said.

King is a typical New York (r)epublican, which means he's the equivalent of a moderate Democrat. Nothing Peter Kind does or says surprises either party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...er_T._King

King ...

- voted for the 2008 Wall Street bailout

- opposed the 2009 economic stimulus package

- opposed The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

- opposed [in 2008] efforts to ban congressional earmarks

- supported John McCain for president in 2000 [but became a Bush supporter]

- opposed John McCain's 2007 effort to enact a path to citizenship for current illegal immigrants

- opposed McCain's calls for an end to coercive interrogation methods used with suspected terrorists

- The New York Times wrote in 2006 [he] had been "the Patriot Act's most fervent fan

- supported the Iraq War from 2002 on

- opposed President Barack Obama's executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp

- criticized the activities of WikiLeaks and in December 2010 suggested that the group be designated a "terrorist organization" and treated as such by U.S. agencies

- co-sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

- supported the Irish republican movement in the late 1970s

- said we have to be careful not to allow [Occupy Wall Street] to get any legitimacy

- said Edward Snowden should be punished for releasing information to the American public that Verizon customers were being spied on, but so should the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras for [reporting on the documents]

Etc.

Doesn't really sound like a "moderate Democrat" to me.

Here's the thing about oddy - he perceives 'democrats' as the caricature of 'democrats' that existed in 1965 or whenever his road to damascus event was. We might all be using the same words, but we're operating from different definitions. He might honestly believe that Peter King is a 'moderate democrat', because the Rockefeller Republican was still something that existed back then.

Bridgier

In spite of the snark, I have to give you some credit for your limited insight to my "metamorphosis". I'm a bit surprised though, because it's something I never expect to see from blind followers.

I grew up in the Democrat Party of men like Mike Mansfield, who was an amazing advocate for doing what was right, in spite of the politics. I had the opportunity to meet the Senator on numerous occasions and listen to a number of his speeches. He had a remarkable presence; the warmth and humor of a Butte miner and the "charisma" of being the smartest guy in the room.

Mansfield was a champion for Civil Rights legislation and one of the only Congressional leaders to recognize the inherent peril in the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Mansfield was a skilled politician who understood when it was time to work the aisle or to make a point, and it made him one of the most successful Senate Majority leaders in history. Unfortunately, he was one of a kind.

Compare that to the Democrat Party of Leftist loons such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and you will also understand why I had a "Road to Damascus" event.

I would take you a little more seriously, if you didn't say things like 'leftist loons' and 'harry reid' in the same sentence.

Sorry, but I've had the misfortune of meeting Harry Reid. At one small corporate "meet and greet", he personally put the arm on me and several others, to buy his book. All I could think of was; "what a Statesman".

During the 2010 campaign there was a bumper sticker floating around that said "Will Rogers never met Harry Reid".

Nailed it.

So he's a smarmy putz - I'll grant you that. But he's not, nor has he ever been, a 'leftist'. My greatest frustration is when people say things that boil down to "I don't like that person/thing, so that person/thing is a socialist/leftist/communist"

In Nebraska, they used to say Will Rogers never met Barry Switzer.

If only Reid exhibited the statesmanship of Boehner or Mconnell!

Bob Netherton III wrote:

If only Reid exhibited the statesmanship of Boehner or Mconnell!

Yeah Bob, but either one would be a hell of a lot more fun to get drunk with.

^^^ THIS! +1000 Gunnar!

I think that all of these Zionist teabaggers, that invited the head of Israel and treated him like royalty today should consider moving to Jesusland. It is unconscionable that they can stand an applaud a foreign leader, but they can't extend the same basic courtesy to the President of the United States! After all, the event of the ages is the rapture of the church and even your bible says that Jesus was going to return to one place on earth. No where does the bible say that Jesus was observed in multiple places at the same time. So a move to Israel would be a way for all of you to get closer to the action. Just say'n.

All of the pre-millennial rapture crapture heavily influencing our mideast foreign policy is getting very old. Enough already. There doesn't have to be an Armageddon. Have you ever stopped to consider what might happen if you go start some holy war and Jesus just doesn't happen to come back????

Don't you wish that President Obama displayed the same anger at ISIS and Putin that he displayed over a Prime Minister speaking before congress without his permission? It's kind of like your best friend coming to your home yelling that your house is on fire and you tell your best friend to leave because he forgot to knock.

The difference of course, is that Mr. Obama had nothing nice to say to Bibi, while he's DROPPING PROCREATEING BOMBS ON ISIS.

I know, I know, potayto, potahto..