“Picking up where Bubba Clinton left off.”
If you read the whole article it points out the Reagan used the executive order a lot as have other Republicans. For instance this article points out that Bush is currently pushing oil development in Utah. If he does a lot more of this kind of thing, it will give the Dems a lot of cover to do the same themselves once they have the chance.
I don’t deny that many, many presidents have made many policy changes via EO, but Bubba excelled at it and wrote more than most presidents combined since the EO began.
By contrast, Bush has been very reluctant to use EOs to govern and has written far fewer than Clinton certainly ever did. Bear in mind that, when Clinton couldn’t get something that he wanted through the Congress, he’d just write an EO. Bush, at least, took his Congressional defeats with honor and grace and didn’t run back to his office to write an EO to get his way.
Neither I nor anyone, at this point, knows how abusive Obama might be with his EOs but, from the sound of it, he’s not off to a promising start.