Bob small fry, Obama big fish Wrote:
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>> This matters to you, and me, because there will
> not always be an extreme liberal (LOL) in the White
> House. What if a social conservative is elected
> and declares it just "commonsense" that abortion
> is murder, Congress won't act, so I have to
> declare it illegal, asking what can I do, Congress
> is not doing its job? Would you be fine with
> that?
>
> What if that president orders a massive military
> strike on another country and declares, well
> Congress wouldn't act, this was commonsense, so I
> did it? Would you be fine with that?
>
> Again, I'm happy for the McDonnells to go to jail
> if they are found guilty. They are disgraced. But
> that's run-of-the-mill corruption. What is
> happening in Washington is threatening the
> foundation of our republic.
Um this already did happen it was called George W. Bush.
War on bogus pretense "the British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa"
Terri Shivo,
The 2003 leak of Valerie Plame's identity as a covert operative in the CIA
L. Paul Bremer, the former head of reconstruction in Iraq, was unable to account for as much as $12 billion—about half of his budget
in 2004, Pentagon auditors found that Halliburton had not adequately accounted for $1.8 billion of the bill it sent to the United States government for its work in Iraq and Kuwait,
In 2002, Canadian citizen Maher Arar was detained at an airport in New York and spirited away to Syria, where he was tortured and held for 10 months by his captors before being returned home. Canadian officials investigated Arar's case, declared he was innocent, and paid him $9 million in compensation. American officials refused to admit the mistake and instead kept Arar on a terrorist watch list;
Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq on May 1, 2003 Mission Accomplished
Hurricane Katrina in 2005
the market crash of 2008 requiring emergency government intervention and resulting in a long recession that the country is still climbing out of.
that is a very short list - its easy to forget how really bad things were under Bush/Cheney...
btw Obama is still well behind GW in executive orders
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php