I’m not sure that this should be considered a double standard. An outgoing President in the last days of office plans to do things that he didn’t anytime prior in his 8 years in office isn’t a profile in courage… If he really wanted to allow mining next to the Grand Canyon why didn’t he just do it a few years ago? Or how about changing things he knows the next President would be against and will just reverse in 2 months?

I’d say a better double standard would be comparing Bush’s last actions to Clinton’s and coming up with a different answer. Pick a position and stick to it, but don’t waffle based on the party of the guy who is doing them. If Clinton’s last executive orders, that Bush undid, were petty or politically motivated then so are the current executive orders being written now.

Suddenly the Patriot Act will go from “must scrap” to “must strengthen”. With The One at the helm all will be in proper planetary alignment.

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Planned Parenthood comes first for the big BO (read: stenchman). Next up to please Code Pink? Daily Krap? Reverend Wright Black Theology nod?

and criminal, and liberal government is the natural order of things.

Or possible dictatorship? With the far left in charge of everything but the Supreme Court (which has no enforcement power), we shall see. I’m hoping and praying this particular congressman is wrong but to think that Americans are immune from being suckered like the Germans or Russians were just a century ago is a denial of human nature. A major crisis would be the perfect excuse for the president to declare a “suspension” of the constitution (which he isn’t terribly fond of).

Bush has used them around 70% of the time and Clinton used them around 17% of the time. Bush has wielded executive power more than any other President. So, I don’t know how much of a double standard it will be and I’m pretty sure every incoming President initially uses some executive orders to realign some of the past administration’s policies.

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