Obama To Quickly Undo Hundreds Of Bush Executive Orders
By Logan Murphy Monday Nov 10, 2008 1:00pm
It may take decades to learn the real damage George Bush has done to the U.S. and other parts of the world, but its nice to know that at least some of his most egregious mistakes can be undone.
The blogosphere has been following the countless abuses of George Bush and his administration for years, and it appears that our voices have been heard and that all of the hard work may finally pay off -- President-elect Barack Obama is sending out signals that he's ready to move quickly to reverse course on some of the worst Bush executive orders and get the country moving in the right direction again.
Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team.Obama himself has signaled, for example, that he intends to reverse Bush's controversial limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, a decision that scientists say has restrained research into some of the most promising avenues for defeating a wide array of diseases, such as Parkinson's. Read on...
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NEVER say what you are going to do...while a Bush is in power.
NEVER NEVER NEVER!!!!
Amen!!! W might nuke something.
Good point! Bush might pardon himself and his buddies on the way out the door.
Leave it to Bush to find a way to get around that little technicality....
Never mind.
Rest assured, Bush will receive a very angry letter if he pardons himself.
If he doesn't recant, the next letter will be even angrier.
Yea, I guess a pardon is in order seeing that this country has been safe since 9/11.
It's nice to see a spineless jellyfish second-guessing a policy that has worked for the last 7 years, BRILLIANT.
I fear for Obama's life daily. I can barely stand to open any Breaking News emails I receive.
Stop telling the enemy of the American people what you are going to do. It is like putting a target on your back.
...but fear itself. We can't go through the next eight years anxious for Obama's safety. He and a crew of dedicated lifelong professionals are doing their best in this regard. There's nothing else we can do, so we need to learn to put this anxiety aside and get on with the work that needs to be accomplished to repair America.
this is the problem. "a crew of lifelong dedicated
professionals" 99% products of the military and state and
federal law enforcement. Not exactly the friends of the
minorities. And dedicated to what? The MIC who has raised
them? We NEED to fear. We need african american navy seals
around Barack 25/8/366!!
What happened to HOPE?
No, I don't let fear rule my life. And frankly, it's really divisive insinuating that the white people Obama is working with will kill him or something.
Did I say divisive? I meant shitty.
Grow up and stop seeing everybody who is not the same race as you as the enemy. Doesn't get you anywhere.
Obama is no more or less a target than Bush, or McCain would've been. Maybe a different veneer on the reason, but Obama just being the President singles him out. That why we have the Secret Service.
Obama is no more a target than Bush? Really? I wholeheartedly disagree with that.
Obama has the added benefit of not just your average anti-government nutjobs who hate him but more because he is not lily white, who fear him as a communist, a Marxist, a socialist and a dirty Muslim in Christian cloth.
It is simply pie-in-the-sky to think that all of these crazy people who showed up at the various Palin rallies (did you not see the videos?) are simply going to crawl into their holes and not be seen nor heard from again.
Whack jobs come from all over...but Obama has more than the average president for the reasons cited above.
You need to chill.
Seriously.
Why do I need to chill? Are you saying I am off base here? You agree that Obama has no other crazies that might want to kill him other than the usual suspects?
Yes, you are way off base, but if you choose to live your life in a state of stress and paranoia, be my guest.
and I thought *I* had rose colored glasses.
Reality babe. Did you miss the earlier post about the number of increased threats on Obama's life from the Secret Service?
and I thought *I* had rose colored glasses.
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....you don't. You are hyping yourself up. Obama is going to be president of one of the most powerful countries in the world. He's gonna be a target.
Did you miss the earlier post about the number of increased threats on Obama's life from the Secret Service?
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everyone saw that. threats are different than attempts, babe.
I'm not going to get worked up over what is conjecture here, on both sides.
is so tired of the presidency he's lost interest, and is just counting the days before he goes to Paraguay. Good riddance.
Liberal and Proud, it should say Liberal and Stupid. Oh yea, lets not drill for oil here in the U.S. lets continue to fund the middle east hate regime, like Barry said: "I believe that $5 dollar a gallon gas is what we should be paying".
Way to ruin our economy brainiac.
Get ready for the Obama haters!
Were coming.
The Obama Team Seeks to Reverse the ‘Ultimate Bush Position’
Nader keeps assuring us that both parties are the same.
The only thing that remains the same is Nader's line.
F*ck "Uncle Tom" Nader. [deleted - tone it down, please. sitemonitor] And to think that I once had so much respect for him.
Nader should be held accountable for his role in enabling the neocon junta in 2000.
I think an appropriate penance would be to make him drive a 1964 Chevy Corvair for the rest of his life.
Big Boppa says, "I think an appropriate penance would be to make him drive a 1964 Chevy Corvair for the rest of his life.
"
Wouldn't that qualify as "cruel and unusual punishment"?
He does not actually make my leg tingle...
If you live out west, you can drink some of that soon to be Uranium enriched water Bush wants to deliver to you...that might make your leg tingle. :-D
Nader, though...never did it for me, either.
Look at the money you could save on light bulbs. Plus it will give your skin a nice glow.
If you ask me. Obama proved now, and Dean proved in 2006 and 2004, that political parties are built from the bottom-up. Not from the top-down. From local to State level to Congress to the White House.
Nader and other third parties would do well to learn from that.
The fact that he/they haven't learned and in the most 'activist' election in decades, just goes to show the vanity of these guys. What would Nader even do if he was elected - without congressmen or any other organization to back him up? Such a presidency would do more than anyone to preserve the status quo he reviles so much.
Especially the last one.
Between the political status of the Dem and the Green (for example) machines.
Obama was already a senator, he did not have to build a national organization from the ground up, and he did not have to create critical mass to have several seats filled with members of his party in both houses... on top of running for president.
So let's be clear about that...
I don't think Nader or any of the 3rd party candidates do think that they have a chance in hell of getting elected to be president. I believe that they are simply pointing out the inconsistencies of the current model, with the supposedly "democratic" system of government we are living under. Which is not representative at all, as no system where winner takes all can be considered even remotely representative. To which I agree...
Alas, if it feels good to the lot of you to blame that old fool Nader for the Dem debacle that was the 2000 election, and want to keep on drawing intellectually dishonest arguments. Suit yourselves, but that only means that denial isn't just a republican trait...
I can see censoring me for being off topic or being nasty to someone here, but what I said was nothing which required my being censored.
I have never complained about anything the sitemonitors have objected to before. I am now.
I call foul!
[On what? Please don't use the thread for this. Write our site monitor email-Sitemonitor]
Too bad PE Obama can not undo the 1,000,000 dead and the 3,000,000 displaced people
at the hands of
the most corrupt, evil and greedy administration this country has even seen.
Now can you hit undo on Iraq?
Couple of supreme court nominations...
Oh shit Barrack I'll just send you a list.
I was just e-mailing a friend about that the other day -- On the Edit menu, click Undo ... Undo Patriot Act? OK. Redo Habeus Corpus? OK!
I had no extravagantly high hopes for Obama, or any of the Democratic candidates, to be honest. Too many years, so much bitter cynicism.
How on earth did we get so lucky? He just keeps looking better and better every day. I'm actually starting to believe again. Please, oh powers that be, don't let this be all more smoke and mirrors and empty promises. Let him be the real deal. January can't come soon enough.
Barack Obama plans quick transfer of Guantanamo Bay suspects to US
I was just about to make that same comment. I heard about his plans today.
Look world! We're gonna have brains in the white house again and a man with a conscience. We just knew we could do better and now we proved it.
Guantanamo will close.
This is good.
BUT! Will the detainees be treated constitutionally? Or will they simply be tortured and held indefinitely, just not in Cuba?
We shall see.
As in, what does this mean?
Isn't that what we have now? A special court, only for suspected terrorists?
We shall see. We shall see.
We have a constitutional scholar as our new president. Give me a BREAK!
There is no PERMANENT. No PERMANENT tax cuts. No PERMANENT spending. No PERMANENT executive orders.
The Constitution and the law of the United States is a living thing.
It can be taken at any time.
Remain vigilant.
but important ones at the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
Is this some kind of fucking FUCK holiday for dropping all these fucking "F" bombs all over.
Who the fuck do you fucking people think you fucking are? Fucking Joe Scarborough??!?!
Oh, go Scarborough yourself. ;-)
Just avoid the piles of Cheney as you go,
Hilarious -- thank you!
Heck,it's as close to the real deal as I'll get.
But even knowing that we're talking about executive orders, I didn't expect Obama to kick into gear so fast. We might be looking at the most prepared transition-government ever.
Seems Obama might have a neatly-prepared pile of a few hundred executive orders all typed up and ready to sign on on his first day. Wow.
The big question is of course if Obama is biting off more than he can chew. I doubt it, myself. Obama seems to inspire loyalty and in return, he trusts his people. And he knows how to delegate tasks. This is the kind of boss who gives you clear instructions "This is what I want." and trusts you to handle the details. Just the kind of guy you need when there's a lot of work to be done.
That's a good beginning but I really hope they also start a purge of all the neocon apparatchicks and apparatdudes that have been implanted throughout the government. DoJ and EPA would be a fine start.
I hate to sound all Stalin-y but these moles have got to go, they're still incredibly dangerous while they hold their bureaucratic powers.
I have no doubt that career Civil Servants will be making a comeback.
all of the Monica Goodling droppings which remain unfettered throughout all levels of our government. All those Regent losers who cannot be fired from their jobs.
The cleanup will take as long as Chernobyl. With people who remain embedded in our government who are as radioactive as the dirt outside of that Russian facility.
And this is the kind of guy you want in charge if that three o'clock in the morning phone call should come.
I think the Dems expect the entire administration to be in a shamble. They also know that people expect results.
This is an organized team of some of the best minds in the country (including Obama). They aren't just winging it. They have a plan and will quickly move as many things forward as feasible.
Take that, My Pet Goat boy!
that Obama does away with Bush's super secret exec orders which never saw the light of day. WTF is up with that? Secret exec orders? NO. NO. NO! Never again.
Oh, and make them public once you do away with them. NO MORE SECRECY. Unless it is truly in national defense, there is no reason to keep this from the American people.
They'd better put in some extra people in whatever department handles freedom of information requests because they're going to be swamped pretty soon.
...is already talking about how the "Abortion Industry" is going to profit from an Obama presidency.
Let's remember they built themselves from the ground up, too - and they have the power to seek and destroy.
Most intelligent clergy have already stated that abortion rates will go down under Obama, for several reasons. Among them: proper sex ed instruction including information on birth control and an increased quality of life.
Obama won't do squat. These are the democrats after all, the same people who in 2006 promised to end the Iraq war, and didn't. They didn't even put up a fight.
There’s nothing like positive thinking!
After the past eight years, I'll relish in every ray of hope and change we can find.
on that in 4 years? shessh.
in a recovering ecomomy is confidence in the future. We have a leader that needs our support.From Everyone.
Tsk. Tsk.
It had better be.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/...
The EO's that Obama will undo had better not be just a bunch of inconsequential stuff.
PDD-51 needs to be #1 on the list.
Then the Dem congress had better show us that they are about change and undo all the shit that has been done over the past 16 years (yes, I said 16).
Stem cell research is not inconsequential. Neither is drilling in Utah's pristine areas, or the rescinding abstinence only education requirement for federal aid.
You want to drill Marie Osmond?
Let them talk. These imbeciles are lost in their own reality. They are out of touch, and my hope is that they remain there. They will marginalize and marginalize and marginalize themselves until they simply disappear.
The blogosphere definitely needs to watch this, because the mainstream media sure won't.
Obama campaigned on a platform of change, making a point that his opponent sided with Bush 90% of the time.
That does not mean that Obama can side with Bush 89% of the time.
It would be great to be a fly on the wall to hear what Bush is saying to Obama during their meeting together knowing that Obama is going to undo much of what Bush has done.
The only job in the world where somebody else has to clean up after your mistakes. Glad you're the BETTER man, Obama
A fly on the wall.
Bush is giving Barack the usual..."we need to protect our freedoms", the terrorist are against us, we need extraordinary measures to defend "murica.
All the same usual Bush bullshit...and Barack is nodding and yessing the Pretzelnit to death...treating him like the poor sad simpleton that he is.
talking about his beloved oval office rug and the great gravity of selecting just the right one.
I think that's the way everyone treats the chimp now. The only people left with him are the die hard booshies and even they know it's time to start shopping the resumes.
Bush: "You're saying it wrong. It's "nuke-ya-ler," not "nuke-ya-ler." LOL
I read this yesterday and I was filled with euphoria, if only briefly.
It's so good to know that President Elect Obama is going to get right down to business and it seems one of the first orders of business is going to be washing the chimp smell off the Constitution.
After he glues all the pieces of it back together.
There was an excellent political cartoon on the Bob Giger site this Saturday showing just that. Obama at his desk slowly piecing it back together like a jigsaw. :D
He'll probably have to search for all the pieces. I'm sure the chimp and his handlers lost a few... or tried really hard to anyway.
Interesting, boosh has undone thousands of US soldiers
You have to be committed to do all that.
Does this cover all of Bush's signing statements?
Like Chief Brody said in "JAWS"
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Anyone who thinks Obama's life is in danger is probably right, however i am not interested in believing that means he will be assassinated. Even Gerald Ford was the focus of three assassination attempts and every President faces the same threats just from different people. Let the Secret Service do its job and let Obama do his and let us do ours.
Wringing our hands over what might be is a waste of energy. Supporting our next President is not. We live in a dangerous world. Let's not allow the perils to paralyze us.
by any means. I am, however, hyper aware.
It isn't how you die; it is how you live your life. If you choose (and I do mean choose) to live in constant fear, what quality of life is that.
None.
Based on all the hate I'm seeing expressed in many blogs, I'm not so sure we shouldn't worry. Just look at some of the vitriolic comments in this blog, and it's relatively tame. There are a lot of people out there who believed every single lie and distortion that came out of Sarah Palin's mouth. They actually think that the country will be endangered by Barack Obama's presidency. They could care less about the facts, or what Obama's actual policies might be. In that climate, there is fertile soil for the lunatic fringe. This is why I was so upset about the tone at Palin's rallies. She validated the nuts and racists. And they haven't gone away.
Unless George Bush is brought to justice, the precedent will have been established that the rule of power has replaced the rule of law absolutely, that adherence to law is now purely optional and largely symbolic in the exercise of power and that the American people do in fact elect (at least for a while longer) an emperor every four years.
Patriot act and the domestic spy harassment program needs to end now. I am really starting to get sick of these jerko's robbing my privacy.
That is going to be a problem.
The way the Patriot act was constructed we will have to deconstruct laws layer by layer to get rid of it. At least that is the way i understand it.
the perfect Attorney General. Maybe then our federal government would start watch dogging corporate corruption instead of the 'drug war'.
It would be GREAT if he MADE THEM PUBLIC!!!
I think there are some folks who would be VERY interested.
In the court system.
Something to think about.....
So executive orders are bad, unless Obama uses them to undo Bush's executive orders?? Forget that executive orders are unconstitutional to begin with... sheesh!! The Hypocrites have picked their best man.
mjULTRA says, "So executive orders are bad, unless Obama uses them to undo Bush's executive orders??"
They're talking about Bush's signing statements, not his executive orders.
Bush issued more "executive orders" than all the other presidents combined. He did this in order to expand the powers of the executive branch of government. This was the theme of his presidency. It's why we no longer have habeus corpus and have to live with Guantanamo Bay. Obama's executive orders will simply rescind many of Bush's, so we're not talking about an expansion of power here. In fact, we're talking about just the opposite.
Stop acting like the campaign is still going on. We have a new president. Time to re-examine why you're so angry that he got elected and start paying attention to the facts.
Chalk one up....he promised transparency. Unless they are of a sensitive nature, I believe Executive Orders are a matter of public record.
... how many threats were made against Bush? Given that his policies were pretty unpopular, I would have thought that there's be at least one half-serious threat ...
Bush was just an empty vase that every wingnut poured water into. Break the vase and they'd pour into a different vase.
"I'd love revenge, but I can't waste the shot."
Mon, 11/10/2008 - 16:17 — rimmersclone
... how many threats were made against Bush? Given that his policies were pretty unpopular, I would have thought that there's be at least one half-serious threat ...
pickles learned to keep her mouth shut, and her thoughts to herself.
I wish that this bureaucracy would be abolished IMMEDIATELY. We have a border patrol, local, and state police, we have an FBI and a CIA, we have the US Marshals, we have the Texas Rangers and godammit the California Highway Patrol. All we need is an order that they all must communicate with each other on all security issues. End the red tape when traveling, end the fear, and end the expense of this largest of all government offices.
Obama is a baffoon. Gee the latest from his campaign is that we won,t be able to drill for oil in here in the U.S.
Great move idiot, lets keep buying oil from the middle east.
Liberal and Proud, it should state: Liberal and Stupid.
And you think we could have achieved energy independence by indiscriminate drilling when we only have 5% of the world's oil reserves and we use 30% of the world's oil? Clearly, you've listened to nothing Obama has said about energy. His entire economic plan is built around a "green" economy, which would give us independence from foreign oil in the next decade. You need to face up to the fact that you have completely irrational anger about Barack Obama's election. You have convinced yourself, without knowing or caring about any of the facts, that he is an "idiot" and a "buffoon". I suggest that you look in the mirror and ask yourself why you're rejecting Obama before he has even been inaugurated. For your information, the drilling that Obama is THINKING about forbidding is in certain ecologically sensitive areas, such as in Utah. He has said NUMEROUS times that he realizes we have to increase domestic product, but he's not ignorant to think that it will make us independent from Mideast oil.
After the election a lot of Republicans were angry that their man had lost and I can understand that. Some folks take their politics to heart. But now I'm the one who is angry. I am sick and tired of reading all the hateful, destructive and, sometimes, outright racist crap that I'm seeing on many well-known blogs. Some of these blogs, such as www.redstate.com and www.wakeupamerica.com are nothing more than fly paper for white supremacists. If you post anything remotely positive about Barack Obama, your comment is replaced by a sarcastic remark and you are immediately banned. Opposing views are rejected without consideration. This has gone beyond bitterness about losing an election. It's now about hate and a strikingly unAmerican refusal to get onboard with the incoming President. You don't have to agree with his stated policies, but he is NOT the enemy. Open up your clamped-shut minds and give the man the same chance that Democrats would have given John McCain. OK, I admit it. I wouldn't have given Sarah Palin a chance. That would have been too much to ask.
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