Howdju — Statements Related to “Obama is outpacing Bush II in signing statements”

Statements Related to Obama is outpacing Bush II in signing statements

Candidate Obama made three core promises to America (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has kept his campaign promises (4+/2- justifications)
President Obama has kept his three core promises (4+/0- justifications)
President Obama passed a recovery act that created millions of jobs, many for teachers, firefighters, and police officers (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama's actions spurred a 73% increase in lending to small businesses, creating new jobs (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama helped hundreds of thousands of Americans keep their homes (2+/0- justifications)
President Obama cut taxes for 95% of working families (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has been working to passing health reform that would significantly bolster job growth by getting health insurance costs under control and outlawing health insurance discrimination (e.g., pre-existing conditions, gender) (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has helped the middle class (6+/1- justifications)
President Obama has closed the executive revolving door, forbidding former administration employees from lobbying when they leave the white house (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has made government more transparent and accountable (5+/0- justifications)
President Obama has improved the United State's relationship with the rest of the world (3+/0- justifications)
President Obama is winding down the war in Iraq (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama is working thoughtfully and carefully to plan the United States' involvement in Afghanistan (1+/0- justifications)
Bush II issued over 1200 signing statements during his presidency (1+/0- justifications)
Bush II issued on average one signing statement every two days during his presidency (3+/0- justifications)
Obama issued on average one signing statement every 37 days from Jan. 20, 2009 to Jul. 26, 2009 (4+/0- justifications)
Bush II and Blair agreed in 2002 to conquer Iraq (2+/0- justifications)
The 2009 budget deficit has little to do with Obama's policies (3+/0- justifications)
As presidential candidate, Obama attended the Bilderberg conference (1+/0- justifications)
The US continues to torture under Barack Obama (1+/0- justifications)
75% of all income gains during the Bush administration went to the 1% wealthiest (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has not kept his promise to limit farm subsidies (0+/0- justifications)
President Obama has not kept his promise to end federal grants to strictly religious organizations (1+/0- justifications)
UK laws allow a person to be arrested for racist statements found in e-mails (1+/0- justifications)
The US did not experience a terrorist attack while Bush II was president (1+/2- justifications)
President Bush claimed throughout his presidency that he would leave office with a balanced budget (1+/0- justifications)
Senate Republicans interfered with President Obama's appointee nominations in unprecedented ways (1+/0- justifications)
The Obama administration is in greater violation of Geneva than even the Bush-Cheney administration (1+/0- justifications)
Only 12% of americans believe President Obama has decreased taxes (1+/0- justifications)
Only 12% of the US think the Obama administration has lowered taxes despite taxes decreasing for 95% of people (2+/0- justifications)
DEA is busting marijuana growers despite President Obama's promise that the federal government would not pursue those in compliance with state law (1+/0- justifications)
Senior officials in Bush II's administration (including Vice President Cheney) conspired to torture detainees (1+/0- justifications)
Obama issued five signing statements from Jan. 20, 2009 to Jul. 26, 2009 (0+/0- justifications)
187 days / 5 signing statements = 37 days per signing statement (0+/0- justifications)
The rate of job loss has decreased since Obama took office (1+/0- justifications)
US unemployment has stopped increasing and has stabilized since Barack Obama became president (1+/0- justifications)
Job loss may have reached its maximum because of job loss saturation regardless of President Obama's administration's actions (0+/0- justifications)
Pakistan has been more cooperative with the Obama administration than the Bush administration in hunting leaders of Afghan Taliban (1+/0- justifications)
George W. Bush tried to hide US income inequality (1+/0- justifications)
Obama plans to make almost half of US citizens pay no income taxes (1+/0- justifications)
Obama's tax cuts will decrease taxes for 95% of US citizens (0+/2- justifications)
Several Bush II executives conspired to commit torture (1+/0- justifications)
Most U.S. domestic terrorism since June 2008 has been directly related to Barack Obama's presidency (1+/0- justifications)
The Catholic church relocated child-molesting priests to the Alaskan bush in order to hide their ongoing abuse of children from attention (1+/0- justifications)
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld purposefully kept hundreds of innocent people in Guantanamo because it would have harmed their careers to admit their mistake (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has an unprecendented number of officials (czars) (2+/0- justifications)
Sarah Palin engages in fearmongering against president Obama (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama is capable of leading the United States military. (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has taken the harshest stance of any president in prosecuting unauthorized leaks of information by executive employees (1+/0- justifications)
Obama's strategy in Afghanistan has been a failure (1+/0- justifications)
General McChrystal warned President Bush II's advisors to avoid discussing the cause of Pat Tillman's death in order to avoid revealing the truth that he had died of friendly fire (1+/0- justifications)
Bush II was the worst president since Warren Harding died in office in 1923 (1+/0- justifications)
The Bush II tax cuts cost $1.8 trillion between 2001 and 2008 (3+/0- justifications)
In 2004 Germany hosted a BBQ for then U.S. president George W. Bush that cost €8.7M ($11M as of 2010) and hired 12K police officers for security (1+/0- justifications)
34% of republicans believe Barack Obama is a Muslim (1+/0- justifications)
24% of U.S. residents believe that Barack Obama is Muslim (1+/0- justifications)
Koch-funded organizations engage in smear tactics by producing inaccurate reports that paint the Obama adminstration and the Democratic Party unfavorably, and then recant the accusations after the damage has been done (1+/0- justifications)
Barack Obama has espoused anti-colonialist ideals from his father (1+/0- justifications)
Barack Obama has increased the national debt by $2.7T in 1.5 years in order to recover from the worst economic crisis since the great depression (3+/0- justifications)
George W. Bush increased the national debt by $5.1T in 8 years to fund the invasion of two countries that were unrelated to the 911 attacks and to fund tax cuts for the wealthy (1+/0- justifications)
The U.S. national debt was $10.7T in December 2008 when George W. Bush left office (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama's primary mission for NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is reaching out to Muslim nations and helping them to feel good about themselves (1+/0- justifications)
A democratic house member called for accrual accounting of the U.S. budget during Bush's presidency (1+/0- justifications)
The Bush II administration illegally used white house resources to support Republican candidates (1+/0- justifications)
The common law of agency dictates that one authorized by another to make statements on behalf of the latter does make statements for the latter (0+/0- justifications)
The Obama Justice Department used its discretion not to pursue deportation of a foreign man in a same-sex marriage to a U.S. citizen (1+/0- justifications)