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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Robert O'Brien Trophy Winner: Craig Smith

By Ed Brayton

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No, not Craig Smith the former Boston College basketball player. Craig Smith, the Worldnutdaily columnist who wrote this absurd column expressing great outrage at Barack Obama for issuing executive orders - without ever bothering to discuss the substance of those orders at all.

Anyone with a sixth grade civics education understands the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in their design of three specific branches of government and the accountability each enforces.
Apparently President Obama skipped the sixth grade.

Within the first three days of taking office, Obama has signed five specific executive orders without any advice or the consent of the legislative or judicial branches - the same branches the founders believed were essential for effective and accountable government. This is an unprecedented number given past presidents like Kennedy, Carter and Clinton only signed one in the first few days of taking office and Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush signed zero in the same time frame.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).