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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (70803)1/10/2015 9:32:22 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
The substance matters far more than the numbers. One order (or executive action in a form other than an executive order), can be more problematic than a thousand orders or actions. Because of that the number by itself tells us almost nothing.

But your claim that the President's executive orders (while vastly fewer in number than immediate predecessor's exec. orders) somehow are substantively more problematic

What claim? Esp. what claim as part of this conversation. Please link to it.

My claim here was that the number of executive orders is a lousy measure of how much the president pushed or exceeds his authority. That is not just because some executive orders are far more dubious than others, but also because a president can exceed his authority with methods other than executive orders.
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