Yep Haters, just like Bush.
Despite signing an early flurry of major executive orders, President Obama has been restrained in wielding his White House power having produced fewer executive orders than all but one of his five recent predecessors.
Mr. Obama created a fiscal panel Thursday to tackle the nation's staggering deficit problem when issuing his 43rd executive order - that's 17 fewer than President George W. Bush signed in the same time frame and 29 fewer than President Carter.
But Mr. Obama's use of executive power is likely to change now that Senate Democrats have lost their filibuster-proof majority and Republicans are expected to pick up seats in this fall's midterm elections.
"It is easier to get what you want unilaterally than it is to work with Congress," said Christopher S. Kelley, a professor at the Miami University of Ohio, who noted that President Clinton's executive orders spiked after Republicans took control of Capitol Hill in 1994. "They tried to cut him off, but in the end the president has the prerogative to use them."
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