"Trump outstripping Obama on pace of executive orders"

[archives]

"It wasn’t too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as “power grabs” and a “basic disaster.”

"He’s switched sides in a big way: In each year of his presidency, he has issued more executive orders than did former President Barack Obama during the same time span."

"Back in 2012, Trump had tweeted: “Why Is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?”

"That criticism continued once he entered the presidential race."

“The country wasn’t based on executive orders,” Trump said at a South Carolina campaign stop in February 2016. “Right now, Obama goes around signing executive orders. It’s a basic disaster. You can’t do it.”

"Few candidates for office have placed so much emphasis on criticizing a predecessor’s executive orders as Trump did."

https://www.apnews.com/25ca8d3b39024f9e828df7ebeb718274

Appears just like playing golf, and having nothing to do with his businesses, Trump lied, shocker

So how is all this rationalized in the conservative mind, we have family values, judicial restraint, deficits and debts, and here, increasing Executive power, all supposedly conservative principles being totally abandoned by this Administration?

What principles do conservatives' have? Or are was they told us for decades just rhetoric, defined by who occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

[Gonzomin]

Trump is lying now, he lied back then and will lie tomorrow. Trump is for using any presidential power he finds useful more than ever used in the past. Trump's hole card is the pardon. He asked in the first month if he could pardon himself. He knew he was going to need it. Whether rightys are suckered into thinking Trump is not a crook is irrelevant. Trump knows the truth and he has found his way out, the pardoning power. The rightys did not even wonder why he was talking about it so soon after the election, nor did they notice he was practicing using it so soon.

[dukkha]

a lot of those orders canceled previous orders. But Pelosi clearly will NOT PASS ANYTHING -not even trade agreements
So if you want to say Trump was wrong -OK fine -I'm much more interested in getting legislation done