Since BushCo. Set the Precedent of Executive Orders & Signing Statements

[LetTimmySmoke]

that waive certain provisions of the law from being enforced, can Obama follow suit in this very simple way:

Executive Order XXXXX: "The age restriction on medicare will no longer be enforced."

[tritsofme]

1. Then if he can make a few trillion dollars fly out his butt.

This idea might just work.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Hardly matters whether he can -- he won't.

[former9thward]

3. Bush did not set any precedent for either Executive orders or signing statements.

James Monroe was the first president to issue a signing statement and he set the precedent. Clinton actually issued 381 of them, far more than Bush. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33667.pdf