{"id":33059,"date":"2015-09-03T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T01:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=33059"},"modified":"2015-09-03T21:27:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T01:27:41","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-september-2nd-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=33059","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015…and here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up, courtesy of the\u00a0WSJ<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong>Lanhee Chen details what we believe should guide the decision of EVERY<\/em><\/span> Conservative voter when casting their primary ballot for President: precisely<\/em><\/span> how their candidate unambiguously<\/em> guarantees<\/em><\/span> to unconditionally<\/em><\/span> and immediately<\/em><\/span> effect…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Undoing the Unilateral Presidency<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

Obama\u2019s executive orders can be reversed easily, but he has imposed his policies in many other hard-to-stop ways<\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

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“…On the next president\u2019s first day in office, the president could simply issue an executive order revoking all of his predecessor\u2019s executive actions, except those necessary for national security or the basic functioning of government. This includes Mr. Obama\u2019s executive orders, but also a flood of presidential memorandums and directives, as well as informal guidance and orders from federal agencies, that he has used to reshape federal policy.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With a stroke of a pen, the next president could roll back efforts to expand the reach of labor unions, mandates requiring the expanded use of renewable energy by the federal government, and Mr. Obama\u2019s foolhardy reconciliation with Iran and Cuba.<\/p>\n

…Taken as a whole, Mr. Obama\u2019s use of executive orders, presidential memorandums, agency directives and guidance to achieve his policy aims is without precedent in its disregard for the people\u2019s elected representatives<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The president\u2019s defenders note that he has issued an average of 33 executive orders a year, below the average 36 executive orders a year issued by President George W. Bush,and significantly below the average of 46 issued annually by President Bill Clinton. But a simply tally of the orders doesn\u2019t reflect whether they were minor actions, as was often the case with presidents Clinton and Bush, or legislation-by-fiat during the Obama era.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Where Mr. Obama has exceeded all his predecessors, though, is in presidential memorandums<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> These directives have the same legal impact as executive orders and need not be published in the Federal Register<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

Which begs a brief bit of commentary. \u00a0It recently occurred to us, like the Fonz…<\/strong><\/p>\n