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Yeah, because Obama’s executive orders are already on the chopping block.

Buh-bye, Obama “Legacy.”

Via Breitbart.

In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep on Thursday that aired in its entirety Monday on Morning Edition, Obama said it’s preferable to work with Congress.

“Keep in mind, though, that my strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done,” Obama said from the Cabinet Room in the White House. “In my first two years, I wasn’t relying on executive powers, because I had big majorities in the Congress and we were able to get bills done, get bills passed. And even after we lost the majorities in Congress, I bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise and a legislative solution to some of the big problems that we’ve got — a classic example being immigration reform, where I held off for years in taking some of the executive actions that I ultimately took in pursuit of a bipartisan solution — one that, by the way, did pass through the Senate on a bipartisan basis with our help.”…

“So my suggestion to the president-elect is, you know, going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it’s harder to undo,” he said….

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3 Comments | Leave a comment
  1. Alain41 says:

    Trump should respond; I appreciate the President’s advice. That’s the goal for following the 2018 elections.

  2. deaves1 says:

    Says a turkey who bypassed congress as if it were the normal way of doing business.. One Executive Order I want to see, is to vacate all of obama’s exec orders.

  3. Los2000 says:

    If Obama thinks he can push Trump around after Trump takes office, he just hasn’t been paying very much attention during the election. I’m going to enjoy Trump telling Obama to shut his gob in a manner that only Trump can do.

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