Biden and Executive Orders

 

Appearing on NBC in October 2020, then former VP Joe Biden said, "You can't Legislate through Executive Orders, this is not a dictatorship..."

In the first few days of his administration, now POTUS Joe Biden issued 30 Executive Orders, more than any President had ever done in their first week.

Is this hypocrisy?

My answer is 'No' or at least 'not yet' because we don't know how many total executive orders Biden will issue or how extensive they will be.

The comment about executive orders appears at the end of this video.

Comparing Biden and others on Executive Orders in first week from this website:

• President Joe Biden: 22 executive orders in first week
• President Donald Trump: 4 executive orders in first week
• President Barack Obama: 5 executive orders in first week
• President George W. Bush: 0 executive orders in first week
• President Bill Clinton: 2 executive orders in first week
• President George Bush Sr: 1 executive order in first week
• President Ronald Reagan: 0 executive orders in first week

 

As of recent calculation, the leaders in total executive orders are-

FDR: 3721

Wilson: 1803

among recent Presidents-

GW Bush: 291

Obama: 276

Trump: 220

 

These numbers come from here. 

2020 Global Warming Policy Forum Award for Climate Hypocrisy goes to President Xi Jinping

 

These are not my awards. I had nothing to do with it.

However, it is interesting that an NGO is devoting space to this issue.

The winner for 2020 was President Xi Jinping of the PR of China.  From 2000 to 2018, the PRC roughly tripled its carbon footprint while producing five and ten and twenty and 40 year carbon reduction plans.

The "Emmas" are named for the 2019 winner, actress Emma Thompson (born in 1959, she portrayed Professor Sybill Trelawney in three Harry Potter movies) who took first class jet round trip to attend a global warming related event and after some back and forth actually admitted it was somewhat hypocritical. 

 

I am not going to evaluate either award as I don't really know the criteria used by the Global Warming Policy Forum (GPWF).

 

 

 

GWPF announcement of its 2019 award winner.

GWPF announcement of its 2020 award winner.

Vaccine Hypocrisy or Was It

 

In September 2020 both former VP Biden (currently POTUS elect Biden) and Senator Harris (currently VPOTUS elect Harris) gave encouragement to an anti Covid19 vaccine movement.

In each case, their exact words contained caveats and conditionals never actually saying the Covid19 vaccine would be dangerous. But they certainly got some people to infer that. How many is anyone's guess.

Both took the vaccine shortly after it became available; Biden on December 21, 2020 , Harris on December 29, 2020.

Because of the caveats and conditionals, I am not assigning this as a case of hypocrisy.

It was, however, pretty irresponsible and there is an element of the population that is, to this day, anti vaccine. An example of that is the pharmacist in Wisconsin who on December 26, 2020, intentionally ruined several hundred doses of the vaccine because he thought the vaccine was dangerous. Whether he thought so because of Biden and/or Harris will likely not be known.

Harris article is here.

Biden article is here.