Ebbie, my remark wasn't directed at you. The people who started the BS about President Obama's EOs numbering near a thousand seem to read publications that support only what I would call very right-wing views, and to do that the publications lie, cheat and obfuscate at every opportunity. The key is to make the lie big enough and tell it often enough. The directionless will fall in line.

Songwronger, if you don't care what people think, why post your thoughts on Mudcat?

GfS: your remark was a great disappointment. Ebbie checks her information, and if you had read the Snopes article you'd be asking your political allies where THEY got their information--which Snopes proves to be highly inaccurate. The Snopes article makes more than a few people look like reactionaries at best and dupes at worst, and because I know some of those people who have misquoted 'facts' about the various EOs, it makes me wonder what drives people to win at any cost, even when it requires lots of misinformation to do so.

I have said twice so far--third time lucky--that the Republican Party will all but disappear in 2014. (Any political party that would consider running either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann has serious issues.) AFAICS, it won't be soon enough for your country to have the Republicans collapse, but unless folks get off their collective fundaments now and create a viable 'other' party to challenge the Democrats in 2016, y'all go be stuck with SSDD. IMO.