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Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact
Associated Press ^ | 11/09/2008 | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

Posted on 11/09/2008 3:46:11 PM PST by EBH

"There's a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action, and I think we'll see the president do that," Podesta said. "I think that he feels like he has a real mandate for change. We need to get off the course that the Bush administration has set."

Executive orders "have the power of law and they can cover just about anything," Tobias said in a telephone interview.

On drilling, the federal Bureau of Land Management is opening about 360,000 acres of public land in Utah to oil and gas drilling. Bush administration officials argue that the drilling will not harm sensitive areas; environmentalists oppose it.

"They want to have oil and gas drilling in some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah," Podesta said. "I think that's a mistake."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho2008; blm; bo; dictator; drilling; energy; eo; fascism; lp; pbuh; podesta
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To: gidget7
Seems like Utah’s Governor needs to excercise some executive power of it’s own

Utah’s Governor is an "it"?

Sex change or he-she or what?

101 posted on 11/09/2008 4:53:16 PM PST by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: cruise_missile
He has got to approve Obamabortions first (late term abortions).

...after that he'll move to rapidly grow Federal Barackracy.

102 posted on 11/09/2008 4:53:40 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

Good one!


103 posted on 11/09/2008 4:54:32 PM PST by cruise_missile (''Edward - Jones:High commissions for lousy investment advice! Making cents out of $.)
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To: Sig Sauer P220

Will be the ones without bullet holes.


104 posted on 11/09/2008 4:54:46 PM PST by mkcc30 (Reagan's shadow had more substance than Obama!)
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To: cruise_missile

Though I think that late term abortion is a travesty and I am totally pro life .. again ... I believe that there are much more important fish to fry that expending energy on what I consider to be a lower priority issue than preventing CW2 or WW4. If you don’t ... there is no point in continuing our conversation


105 posted on 11/09/2008 4:55:00 PM PST by clamper1797 (BHO ... the 'H" stands for hubris)
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To: beagleone
>Gas prices will be the least of our problems.<

>>>>>>>ObamaTized<<<<<<<

Hell, who needs a frontal lobotomy, when you can be Obamatized for free??

106 posted on 11/09/2008 4:55:06 PM PST by Joined2Justify (tagline removed for security reasons)
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To: BGHater
Obama is gonna love the Patriot Act and the inherent powers of the President.

I said when that thing was passed, we didn't want to give powers to President Bush that we wouldn't want Clinton - or worse - to have.

107 posted on 11/09/2008 4:55:28 PM PST by Amelia
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To: mkcc30

oops.....”we will” not will


108 posted on 11/09/2008 4:55:33 PM PST by mkcc30 (Reagan's shadow had more substance than Obama!)
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To: DBCJR

the time to b*tch about this was the whole gaggle of presidential authorizations under Bush which were every bit as much infringements on the liberty of the nation, and you didn’t hear a peep.....
Now we have a “bad” guy in there, and you folks who...., I dunno, I guess you assumed we would have a Republican pres forever, you are going to have a chance to see what us wack jobs screaming about personal liberty were whining about.

They way to preserve liberty is not to “put good guys in office”- although that is important. It is to restrict the power of the federal government to “do good” by forcing it to do as little as possible, or if you get real lucky, forcing it to act within the bounds of the constitution.

You can’t do that when you have social conservatives lusting for that fed power to start pulling them levers for the sake of godliness, though.


109 posted on 11/09/2008 4:55:34 PM PST by slnk_rules (http://mises.org)
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To: EBH

But can he write Executive Orders that transcend the Constitution?????


110 posted on 11/09/2008 4:55:40 PM PST by SkyDancer ("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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To: Inkie
The American people bought a slickly packaged product.

The bought a slick package. They are about to discover the box is empty.

111 posted on 11/09/2008 4:56:20 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: SkyDancer
But can he write Executive Orders that transcend the Constitution?????

Bush did. Why should Obama be different?

112 posted on 11/09/2008 4:56:25 PM PST by slnk_rules (http://mises.org)
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To: slnk_rules

What orders did Bush write?
What Constitutional freedom have been taken?


113 posted on 11/09/2008 4:57:11 PM PST by SkyDancer ("I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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To: Texas_shutterbug
It sucks to be us, now, but we made our bed, now we gotta' lie in it. :(

I absolutely did NOT make it, and I WILL NOT lie in it! Most of us aren't willing to just roll over and die.

114 posted on 11/09/2008 4:57:45 PM PST by Just Lori (Liberalism ---->Socialism----->Communism------>BONDAGE!!!!)
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To: SkyDancer
Read em. There are quite a few. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/orders/
115 posted on 11/09/2008 5:00:23 PM PST by slnk_rules (http://mises.org)
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To: TeleStraightShooter
>>>>>There are EO's and then there are abuses of EO's.

Abuses according to the party out of power. LOL Come on, get real. Here's a short list of recent EO`s. GW Bush 268, so far Clinton 363 G. Bush 165 Reagan 380 Carter 319 Ford 168 Nixon 345 Johnson 323 Kennedy 213 Eisenhower 481 Truman 893 FD Roosevelt 3,466

116 posted on 11/09/2008 5:00:24 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: EBH

When it was Bush issuing executive orders, the media and the Dems spread alarm and warned about the dangers of executive power. I guess those days are over.


117 posted on 11/09/2008 5:01:03 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: saganite

Gas ain’t going to be cheap for long. Obama is going to do everything he can to make sure that we are paying $7/gal within a year.


118 posted on 11/09/2008 5:01:50 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Obama is the Antichrist.)
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To: clamper1797
You apparently didn't read this:

From a strategic (political) point of view. You attack the Obama with your strengths. The late term abortion is one of the strengths that we have that the majority of the public agrees with. It makes him look less like a Messiah and more like the devil. Old saying :You go with your strengths.” This may be one of the few things that we can knock this guy off his swagger. Right now we don't have a lot. This is his very first test. I say we meet him head on. This will weaken him. A War is won with many small battles.

119 posted on 11/09/2008 5:02:49 PM PST by cruise_missile (''Edward - Jones:High commissions for lousy investment advice! Making cents out of $.)
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To: southernindymom
We’re thinking of ... getting gun permits and purchasing our first guns... before the Messiah takes that right away from us also.

Uh, too late, apparently! Look at what you just wrote.

According to the 2a, you already have a permit.

If you have to ask now, then you've already surrendered that right.

120 posted on 11/09/2008 5:04:29 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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