“We can’t wait”: President Obama going in alone with new Executive Orders.
President Barack Obama has issued close to 100 executive orders since taking office in 2009. One of his earliest criticized orders was his order to close the Guantanamo Bay camp. Approximately 90 or so executive orders later President Obama has released more than 5 executive orders in the past two months. Most of these orders are being heavily publicized by the Obama Administration as being apart of President Obama’s “We Can’t Wait” campaign to move around Congress in order to implement the policies of his administration. The attempts by the president to enact multiple executive orders shows great tension between the executive and legislative branches of our government. Although policies are coming out of the administration, are the means by which the President is executing them truly ethical to the standards of presidential power?