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Re:U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs ... by misterprime on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:07PM (#20576158)
George W Bush vastly expanded the use of executive orders. Libs like myself complained about that to no end.

Then Obama came in and did it even more!

So yes, we've already seen this problem escalate from one president to the next. My history isn't deep enough know for sure, but it might even go back to the Vietnam Police Action. It wasn't a war since congress didn't authorize it you know.

Edit: Looks like I was bamboozled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_... thanks ambicapter.

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Re:U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs ... by asark on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:13PM (#20576217)
> George W Bush vastly expanded the use of executive orders. Libs like myself complained about that to no end.

> Then Obama came in and did it even more!

What are you basing that on? How are you arriving at either 1) W expanding the use of executive orders, or 2) Obama doing it even more?

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Re:U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs ... by ambicapter on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:18PM (#20576279)
I did some wikipedia'ing and it doesn't look like its based on reality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...
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Re:U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs ... by asark on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:31PM (#20576410)
Sheer count's not everything. I thought maybe there was some other analysis that'd support the assertions (first thing I did was check that page, which certainly doesn't support them).
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Re:U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs ... by misterprime on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:24PM (#20576346)
News radio strikes again. Thanks for the correction.
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