So it turns out that when Republicans do something, it’s ok, but when Democrats do something similar it isn’t ok. House Speaker John Boehner is suing (or at least will try to sue) President Obama and the Office of the President of the United States for signing a series of Executive Orders that he feels are illegal and excessive.

The real facts? It turns out if you compare President Obama to other presidents his number is among the lowest. Oops.
Here’s a fun meme I caught online about it

Here’s a helpful timeline of Executive Orders per day via the MaddowBlog

And here’s the data that proves the point:

Executive Orders: Washington – Obama via The American Presidency Project

President	Term	Total Orders1	Average / Year	EO Number Range
George Washington	Total	8	1.00	unnumbered
John Adams	Total	1	0.25	unnumbered
Thomas Jefferson	Total	4	0.50	unnumbered
James Madison	Total	1	0.13	unnumbered
James Monroe	Total	1	0.13	unnumbered
John Quincy Adams	Total	3	0.75	unnumbered
Andrew Jackson	Total	12	1.50	unnumbered
Martin van Buren	Total	10	2.50	unnumbered
William Henry Harrison	Total	0	0	unnumbered
John Tyler	Total	17	4.34	unnumbered
James K. Polk	Total	18	4.50	unnumbered
Zachary Taylor	Total	5	3.71	unnumbered
Millard Fillmore	Total	12	4.52	unnumbered
Franklin Pierce	Total	35	8.75	unnumbered
James Buchanan	Total	16	4.00	unnumbered
Abraham Lincoln	Total	48	11.66	unnumbered
Andrew Johnson	Total	79	20.32	unnumbered
Ulysses S. Grant	Total	217	27.13	unnumbered
Rutherford B. Hayes	Total	92	23.00	unnumbered
James Garfield	Total	6	11.00	unnumbered
Chester Arthur	Total	96	27.77	unnumbered
Grover Cleveland – I	Total	113	28.25	unnumbered
Benjamin Harrison	Total	143	35.75	unnumbered
Grover Cleveland – II	Total	140	35.00	unnumbered
William McKinley	Total	185	40.83	unnumbered
Theodore Roosevelt	Total	1,081	144.64
William Howard Taft	Total	724	181.00
Woodrow Wilson	Total	1,803	225.38
Warren G. Harding	Total	522	216.27
Calvin Coolidge	Total	1,203	215.14
Herbert Hoover	Total	968	242.00	5075 – 6070
Franklin D. Roosevelt	Total	3,522	290.71	6071 – 9537
Harry S. Truman	Total	907	116.57	9538 – 10431
	I	504	133.40	9538 – 10029
	II	403	100.75	10030 – 10431
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Total	484	60.50	10432 – 10913
	I	266	66.50	10432 – 10695-A
	II	218	54.50	10696 – 10913
John F. Kennedy	Total	214	75.40	10914 – 11127
Lyndon B. Johnson	Total	325	62.90	11128 – 11451
Richard Nixon	Total	346	62.30	11452 – 11797
	I	247	61.75	11452 – 11698
	II	99	63.87	11699 – 11797
Gerald R. Ford	Total	169	68.92	11798 – 11966
Jimmy Carter	Total	320	80.00	11967 – 12286
Ronald Reagan	Total	381	47.63	12287 – 12667
	I	213	53.25	12287 – 12499
	II	168	42.00	12500 – 12667
George Bush	Total	166	41.50	12668 – 12833
William J. Clinton	Total	364	45.50	12834 – 13197
	I	200	50.00	12834 – 13033
	II	164	41.00	13034 – 13197
George W. Bush	Total	291	36.38	13198 – 13488
	I	173	43.25	13198 – 13370
	II	118	29.50	13371 – 13488
Barack Obama	Total	182	33.58	13489 – 13670…
	I	147	36.75	13489 – 13635
	II	35	24.65	13636 – 13670…