Weekend Wrap-up March 8: Executive Privilege
One of the perks of being in power or being higher up on the corporate ladder is getting to use the executive bathroom. No 1-ply in sight. Not even 2-ply. Rumor has it that they have 6-ply…
But “With great power comes great responsibility“. Wait. Who said that? Was it Voltaire or Uncle Ben? Wait. Uncle Ben? The rice guy? No. Uncle Ben, Peter Parker’s father’s brother. Wait. Peter Parker? You mean Spiderman?
Yes. Here’s another quote. Lord Acton, an English historian and moralist who lived in the late 19th century said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
You probably know where this post is going. Let me give you a few more quotes and see if you can guess who said them:
“I want to not use too many executive orders, folks. Executive orders sort of came about more recently. Nobody ever heard of an executive order. Then all of a sudden Obama, because he couldn’t get anybody to agree with him, he starts signing them like they’re butter. So I want to do away with executive orders for the most part.”
“The country wasn’t based on executive orders. Right now, Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can’t even get along with the Democrats, and he goes around signing all these executive orders. It’s a basic disaster. You can’t do it.”
“The problem with Washington, they don’t make deals. It’s all gridlock. And then you have a president that signs executive orders because he can’t get anything done. I’ll get everybody together.”
“He doesn’t work the system. That is why he signs executive orders all the time because he can’t get his own people to go along.”
“You’ve got to close the door and get things done without signing your executive orders all the time. That’s the easy way out.”
“Right now, we have an executive-order president. He just keeps signing.”
You have Republicans, Democrats, you’re supposed to get together and pass a law. [Obama] doesn’t want to do that because it’s too much work. So he doesn’t want to work too hard. He wants to go back and play golf.”
Yup. That guy. So the person who though that signing executive orders was “the easy way out” has now broken the pervious record of 277 set by Obama in his two terms.
I guess Pesidenting is hard, but you wanted the power, now you have is so don’t screw it up.
Oh, yeah. Too late.
-Leon
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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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