"when you look back, president obama has used the executive der very sparingtly. you have to go all the way back to grover cleveland in the late 1800's to find a chief executive who has used the exeuctive order fewer times term.once his second term started -- what was more out of the ordinary was the scope of the president's executive orders -- nononecessarily the frequency of them. the executive order this week relating to gun control isn't the first time president obama took action that angered conservatives. it started baba in early 2014 with t t president's "pen and phone" strategy -- where he would use a pen to sign executive orders and his phone and influence to make progress where congress couldn't. americans saw at in action when president obama announced executive action allowing about five million illegal immigrats to stay in the united states based on certain circumstances. "the actions i'm taking are not only lawful, but they're the kind of actions taken by every single republican president and every single democratic president for the past half centur