It's hard to cut and paste tables.
George Washington 8
Thomas Jefferson 4
James Madison 1
James Monroe 1
John Quincy Adams 3
Andrew Jackson 12
William Henry Harrison 0
John Tyler 17
James K. Polk 18
Zachary Taylor 5
Millard Fillmore 12
Franklin Pierce 35
James Buchanan 16
Abraham Lincoln 48
Andrew Johnson 79
Ulysses S. Grant 217
Rutherford B. Hayes 92
James Garfield 6
Chester Arthur 96
Grover Cleveland 113
Benjamin Harrison 143
Grover Cleveland 140
William McKinley 185
Theodore Roosevelt 1,081
William Howard Taft 724
Woodrow Wilson 1,803
Warren G. Harding 522
Calvin Coolidge 1,203
Herbert Hoover 968
Franklin D. Roosevelt 3,721
Harry S. Truman 907
Dwight D. Eisenhower 484
John F. Kennedy 214
Lyndon B. Johnson 325
Richard Nixon 346
Gerald R. Ford 169
Jimmy Carter 320
Ronald Reagan 381
George Bush 166
William J. Clinton 364
George W. Bush 291
Barack Obama 256
The only presidents in the modern era to write fewer executive orders than Barack Obama were George Bush (Sr.), Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and John F. Kennedy; before that, you have to go back to William McKinley. All of them were one-term presidents; all of them were on track to write more than Obama's 256 if they had served a second term.
Joe the Plumber has apparently found a wingnut-welfare spot as Vice President of PR at the right-wing Liberty Alliance site. He's come out with this bit of wingnut wisdom: "Reverse the thousands of Executive Orders put in place by President Obama." Bozo.
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