Obama Ready To Quickly Reverse Bush Actions, Executive orders

Washington Post :

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.

A team of four dozen advisers, working for months in virtual solitude, set out to identify regulatory and policy changes Obama could implement soon after his inauguration. The team is now consulting with liberal advocacy groups, Capitol Hill staffers and potential agency chiefs to prioritize those they regard as the most onerous or ideologically offensive, said a top transition official who was not permitted to speak on the record about the inner workings of the transition.

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Comments

[JeanPaulSatire]

This explains -- in part -- why Chïmpy had tears in his eyes the other day when he congratulated President-Elect Obama.

Think there will be much tension in the air when the two, including their top advisors, sit down together to plan the transition? YIKES!

[Coinyer101]

i hope barack gives him a fist-bump ,instead of shaking his hand. germs ,you know?

[barriosbabe]

This is all wonderful news. I'm also wondering what additional things O can do even without Congress. For example, if it only requires a shift of funds (not new ones), can he order the V.A. to open mental health clinics for military families, AIDS clinics, free diabetic testing supplies, reading clinic programs etc etc.

[Coinyer101]

he can make his own executive orders,soon. he will have to get rid of crookedbush's ,first.

[BreakfastatTiffanys1]

Anyone watching MTP? Other than Brokaw, who was the Republican?

I can't figure it out.

[MNmommy]

I'm behind on the DVR - but Mel Martinez is there, espousing a *market answer* to the healthcare problem.

Blech.

[BreakfastatTiffanys1]

The first time he added that government would need to be included.

[barriosbabe]

Thanks for saying that. I'm so sick of the whole profit angle on health care. I'd show you the link but I lost it - an industry piece in the news yesterday about how if O makes programs more accessible "they" can still make good profits.

[returnofthejedi]

Republicans don't want to admit that they are republicans! I don't really blame them!

[dct1999]

I don't know, but Valerie Jarrett is one impressive woman.

[BreakfastatTiffanys1]

I hate that I missed her. I love Valerie. I remember when D0uche Gregory interviewed her and he p1ssed her off when he kept asking her about Jesse Jackson.

That's when I loved her.

[forthepeople1]

lololo! Exactly, I was wondering the same thing regarding MTP today, where are the identifying unmistakable Republicans this morning... all sounded like Dems....uuumhhh what a nice sound, a sound of UNITY maybe....?

I think their brains are open for business now. LOLOL!!!

[carriellbee]

They're in survival mode.

[borderorder]

A good place to start would be to define Ketchup as a condiment instead of a vegetable.

(Yep, I'm still irked over that one :)

[StealYourFace]

Credit that one to Reagan.

[RobertaInCT]

A dea-th blow to Saint Ronnie...............That one is still a classic..........:)

[MontanaHome]

Ah yes. And how about when RR said that vegetation caused air pollution?

The Teflon Presidency.

[CostaDelBarto]

Especially since tomato, the main ingredient of ketchup, is a fruit.

[borderorder]

I believe that debate is still raging.

[TheOinGOD]

Respected by the peoples of the world
Respected by the leaders of the world
I pray that one day the
World embracing consciousness of
Barack Obama, President of the United States, World Citizen
will
gather together the leaders of the world
to address the issues of our
Global Economy
Global Ecosystem
and
establish the foundations of
Global Peace.

Barack Obama
George Washington of the Planet Earth

[Scholar in Training]

The major question is what will take to priority? We all have our own top wish-list of reversals. Mine:

* Diplomacy
* Stem cell research
* Reproductive rights
* Climate change
* Higher education funding

http://www.acouplethings.com/blog/2008/11/obama-ready-to-undo-the-bush-damage/

[carriellbee]

No Child Left Behind needs to go.

[zizyphus]

Republicans have been more interested in the behinds, than the children. See: Franklin Cover-up.

[barriosbabe]

Close Guantanamo

[carriellbee]

Nah. I'd like to see BushCo thrown in there. Then they can close it.

[LemonMeringue]

I want him to bring back the dead and make the wounded whole.

Some of Bush's ugly legacy is permanent. I hope the Bushes and Cheneys think of this every day of their lives.

[JeanPaulSatire]

* CLEANING HOUSE AT JUSTICE (a highest priority, but will take a wee bit longer than most)

* Air quality standards (including fixing that "new source review" clusterf*ck)

[duckfan00]

Bush/Cheney...Apres nous le deluge...let them eat cake...what a terrible legacy to leave...President-elect Obama should everything possible to let the world know the true condition the Bush/Cheney administration have left our country in....Paulson & Bernanke know the ugly truth and you can see the fear in their eyes....

[BuckeyeGal]

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Hussein will Fail. He is an empty suit, all hat and no cattle.
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. . . something you obviously know a lot about, n'est-ce pas?

[RobertaInCT]

Just more right wing sour grapes..........

[JeanPaulSatire]

Actually, they aren't grapes -- they're "t*rd blossoms."

[StealYourFace]

Karl Rove-no longer relevant. Go slither back under that rock .

[Turnip]

Well, I for one hope Habeas isn't restored until presidentChinney has been questioned.

[MNmommy]

;)

There is that.

[RobertaInCT]

MN,
Al seems to be doing okay.........:)

[BreakfastatTiffanys1]

Morning, Ma. Guess what happened to me?

[MakeAWish]

Why did Congress and the Democrats allow signing statements in the first place? Why wasn't each bill submitted with a clause that said; If the president used his executive signing privilege on any bill submitted to him by congress, this would automatically cause nullification of the whole bill and it would then go back to congress for amendment.

[Coinyer101]

from my understanding ,executive orders do not come from congress. they come from the executive. ross perot ran on a platform of his first 24 hours ,if elected, would be rescinding every executive order on the books.

[RevengeIsNear]

Touche' ! Exactly! Are "signing statements" in the Constitution? I don't think so, and if not, then this charlatan president's signing statements should plainly be ignored, and likely will be forgotten in the future. Most of his comments mostly amount to insubstantial fodder. Watch Letterman's daily parodies of W's speeches. Unfortunately for US, these were not made up or doctored. W is waiting for history to judge him softly, but his view is too optimistic. I hope that Obama will not make similar statements, but I doubt he is that arrogant. If I say " McPalin has purple skin and tentacles", even if I want it to be so, doesn't make it reality. W always seemed to have left common sense and reality in the lobby cloak room before he entered the theater of public discourse and democratic government...

[naschkatze]

I hope signing on to the Kyoto Treaty will be a top priority.

[Viper]

Not when it excludes Communist China which is the worlds leading pollutor. You cant give them a 30% economic advanarge loike that and then not expect even higher job losses.

Regards

[BabsfromKansas]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/users/profile/KarlRove2012

YKWTD

[MontanaHome]

Done. The name alone would do it.

[dct1999]

My pleasure.

[StealYourFace]

Indeedy.

[bosshogg]

the White House shredders will be busy for the next couple of months.....................

[StealYourFace]

Expect a D.C. brownout.

[northstar11]

Under
Serious
Adjustment

[Kaos911]

America 2.0 is born!

[CostaDelBarto]

I wish there was a faster installation method for the new OS.

[borderorder]

Still loads faster than Vista.