{"id":3735,"date":"2014-12-20T01:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T08:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2014-12-20T01:06:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T08:06:27","slug":"imperial-president-we-think-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3735","title":{"rendered":"Imperial President? We think NOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We mentioned a <a title=\"A Fine Red Whine With Your Immigration Reform\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3700\" target=\"_blank\">few posts back<\/a> that the Republicans have been whining that President Obama is acting like he&#8217;s a king or an imperial dictator. As usual, the GOP&#8217;s bluster is at odds with the facts. <a title=\"Executive Orders: Washington - Obama \" href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/data\/orders.php\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama has had the lowest number of executive orders to date of any two term president in the last one hundred years<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a handy dandy chart detailing the numbers and showing that <strong>Obama definitely is NOT an imperial president<\/strong>. He needs 97 just to catch ol&#8217; Dubya and he needs 187 to catch St. Ronald Reagan, the patron saint of conservative Republicans everywhere. So the next time you hear a Republican whining about Obama being a king, just waive these numbers in their smug, little faces.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3737\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3737\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3737\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3737\" title=\"executiveordersdecember2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/executiveordersdecember2014.jpg\" alt=\"President Obama has had the lowest number of executive orders to date of any two term president in the last one hundred years.\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/executiveordersdecember2014.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/executiveordersdecember2014-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;Imperial President&#39; Barack Obama needs just 97 more executive orders to catch the &#39;bestest president ever&#39; George W. Bush.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We mentioned a few posts back that the Republicans have been whining that President Obama is acting like he&#8217;s a king or an imperial dictator. As usual, the GOP&#8217;s bluster is at odds with the facts. President Obama has had the lowest number of executive orders to date of any two term president in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3735\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imperial President? We think NOT!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,963,3,198],"tags":[50,22,52,971,924,9,980,21,43,98,596,235,257,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}