I think Obama’s parting actions are more like
the people who vote a town dry, and then move.
Did he actually have a reason why Obama’s actions wouldn’t be permeant? I couldn’t bear to read all the way to the end. (Gag reflex.)
Erick Erickson, the conservative blogger
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The antidote for their ignorance is a good dose of Jeffersonian wisdom:
26.6 Termination of An Administration
"I have thought it right to take no part myself in proposing measures, the execution of which will devolve on my successor. I am therefore chiefly an unmeddling listener to what others say. On the same ground, I shall make no new appointments which can be deferred... thinking it fair to leave to my successor to select the agents for his own administration." --Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1808. ME 12:219
"I should not feel justified in directing measures which those who are to execute them would disapprove." --Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, 1808. ME 12:195
"[My predecessor in the office of the President made several] last appointments to office... [which] were among my most ardent political enemies, from whom no faithful cooperation could ever be expected, and laid me under the embarrassment of acting through men whose views were to defeat mine, or to encounter the odium of putting others in their places. It seems but common justice to leave a successor free to act by instruments of his own choice." --Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804. ME 11:29
"It would be with extreme reluctance that, so near the time of my own retirement, I should proceed to name any high officer, especially one who must be of the intimate councils of my successor, and who ought of course to be in his unreserved confidence." --Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 1808. ME 12:64
"It is but common decency to leave to my successor the moulding of his own business." --Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1793. ME 9:12
Ohhhh that sounds so good! The boy-king's faux legacy...obliterated!
I pretty much had the same reaction.
Mat Bai is a creature.
I half expected we’d get to see the furniture on the curb in a pile.
quote “Sooner or later, whatever you achieve with the flourish of a single pen is erased with about the same casual effort.”
well... that depends honestly.
Up until now it has been very rare for a new president to undo the executive actions of previous presidents, thus making executive orders VERY powerful.
If Trump actually does void most if not all of Obama’s actions (which I HOPE and PRAY that he does) it would go a LONG way toward fixing this issue. And I hope that Trump near the end of his 2nd term will work with congress to reign in what his successors can do.
I don’t mean to be rude, but the writer of this article is a nitwit. He and his “good friend” Obama should go somewhere private and do whatever it is they do when they spend time together.
The “otherwise graceful” stood out to me too. Everything Obama has done was as shallow and revolting as these final moves. That’s why the GOP now controls all levels of government at the national level and in so many states.
But Bammy is going to bless us with a Washtonian Farewell Address. Barf....