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House Speaker John Boehner wants to sue President Obama because ""Too often over the past five years, the President has circumvented the American people and their elected representatives through executive action."
Hmm... According to The American Presidency Project, Obama has enacted 182 executive orders. However, George W Bush enacted 291, Clinton 364, Reagan 381, Carter 320, Nixon 346, Johnson 325, Eisenhower 484, Truman 907, Franklin Roosevelt a whopping 3,522, Hoover 968, Coolidge 1,203, Harding 522, Wilson 1,802, Taft 724, Theodore Roosevelt 1,081. In fact, of the presidents since Teddy Roosevelt, only Kennedy (214), Ford (169), and George H. Bush (166) have issued fewer executive orders than President Obama.
If you look at the presidents' executive orders as an average per year, Obama (with an average of 33.58 per year) has issued the *least* number of executive orders of any modern president. You have to go all the way back to Grover Cleveland's first term (1885-1889) to find a president who issued less per year.
So why does this lawsuit make any sense?
Hmm... According to The American Presidency Project, Obama has enacted 182 executive orders. However, George W Bush enacted 291, Clinton 364, Reagan 381, Carter 320, Nixon 346, Johnson 325, Eisenhower 484, Truman 907, Franklin Roosevelt a whopping 3,522, Hoover 968, Coolidge 1,203, Harding 522, Wilson 1,802, Taft 724, Theodore Roosevelt 1,081. In fact, of the presidents since Teddy Roosevelt, only Kennedy (214), Ford (169), and George H. Bush (166) have issued fewer executive orders than President Obama.
If you look at the presidents' executive orders as an average per year, Obama (with an average of 33.58 per year) has issued the *least* number of executive orders of any modern president. You have to go all the way back to Grover Cleveland's first term (1885-1889) to find a president who issued less per year.
So why does this lawsuit make any sense?