You're wasting your breath Zander.. Liberalism invites Socialism , welcomes it.. A big centralized all powerful intrusive government is what the left wants.. then they can shut down opposition speech, regulate everything to death..
First of all Zander, you should know what you are taking about before opening your mouth. Executive Orders date back to the birth of the nation. It is not something new. George Washington signed 8 Executive Orders.
And lady gunslinger, lets get something straight. Are you telling me that if conservatives come to power they WON'T want to take the vote away from people who would vote Democratic, they WON'T push for two sets of rights in this country (straight rights and gay rights), and they WON'T try to take away a women's right to control her own body? Seems to me that if it is anyone who is trying to "regulate everything to death" it is the current republicans. The only places the conservatives are trying to deregulate are rules protecting the environment and rules stopping Wall Street from finishing the job they started 11 years ago.
Executive orders are common, no doubt about that. I'm not so sure that most in the past have risen to the level of bypassing legislation on major issues as Obama's in numbers.
Congress does work on legislating only to have Reid not bring them to a vote in the Senate, and then Obama uses his pen to bypass Congress and the Senate on those very Bills.....Not sure that that was the way executive orders were to be used.