Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact

Associated Press ^ | 11/09/2008 | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

[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."

[reagan_fanatic]

ALL HAIL OUR RULER!

[A Strict Constructionist]

“Bush didn’t have the foresight to see what might be the afterlife of the Patriot Act,”

Check out this forum?

[LouAvul]

although they won't fully wake up

Tyrone and LaQitia never did wake up during the eight years of darkness during the klinton reign. Now is no different.

America is doomed. We are a democracy where every crack head and street ho can vote.

[Munz]

Bye bye drill here drill now, back up to the pumps now for the gas lines and prepare for a second mortgage to fill your tank.

[sam_paine]

Don't you need to have a permit before you can buy a gun now?

I don't know about Indiana, but in the United States of America, you do not need a permit to own a gun!

=)

[ScottinVA]

“Bye bye drill here drill now, back up to the pumps now for the gas lines and prepare for a second mortgage to fill your tank”

But Lord Obama will pay for both, won’t he?? /s

[sam_paine]

Thanks. I appreciate your finding that.

You're welcome. The framers set up a very constrained, arduous system. I like to think of the US Constitution as a design schematic for a whack-a-mole game.

NEXT QUESTION: "Will the Dems actually use those mallets against 'their own?'"

Here's maybe a partial answer:

Hoyer: Don't count on Obama delivering on promises
CNN News Live | 11/10/08

Posted on 11/10/2008 6:53:45 AM PST by pabianice

Just on CNN, Congressional Democrat Hoyer talking about all the promises Obama made to win the election. In rather blunt terms, Hoyer cautioned that, because of all the "conservative Dems" that have been elected to Congress, no one should expect any of Obama's tax cut promises to actually happen for, oh, "12-24 months," if then because, you know, the economy is in bad shape and many new Dems will balk at further increasing the national debt (now at $11 trillion), blah, lie, blah.

This may be the all-time record of a Democrat announcing that last week's promises are, ah, 'no longer operative.' Hoyer suggested that since Obama has had his first highly classified briefing on the world economy, he may be forced to back-off on his campaign pledges.

[ScottinVA]

I’m actually amazed they’re even telegraphing all this. Are you listening, EC Electors??

[Carl LaFong]

Jan. 30,1933 was the day Adolph Hitler was made Chancellor of Germany.

[Def Conservative]

So much for bringing the change that will bring us all together. He’s a liberal partisan joke

[DBCJR]

No prob. We’re on the same team here.

[angcat]

Didn’t they tell you?

“THEY VOTED FOR CHANGE”

[thulldud]

I figure that by this time next year, some of the lights'll be turning on.

Probably true, but a bad metaphor.

[lainie]

Yeeeah. They voted for change. Which is why I saw the talking heads on the screaming-faces shows yesterday discussing how Rahm was a great choice because he will hold the democrats in the congress at bay, keeping them cooled on their heels and ‘waiting their turns’ when it comes to spending programs. Ol’ Rahm is apparently good at placating and biding his time and will be a great mentor to others in this regard.

Sounds like change to me!

[WOBBLY BOB]

renewal of the AWB will be one of the 1st 10.

[Recovering_Democrat]

You make some very good points, I appreciate the observation these things are “judgements” themselves. You are of course correct.

The prophets also mentioned such behaviors as reasons for the Hebrews to be punished, too. (I am careful to read the Bible in context, and I do not want to make the error of assuming the USA or Christians have fully replaced Israel as God’s chosen people, especially when it comes to the exegisis of OT Scripture.)

I also believe we as Christians must stand against the wrongs in society...while also, as you say, “bathe” our culture in the Gospel. Many Christians do that already: stand against the sin while still loving the sinners.

I can tell you this: since last Tuesday, my prayer life has increased dramatically. Perhaps that is what God wanted all along. :) And I am certain that once time has past and we look back upon this history, we’ll see better how His Hand is working. Right now, we’re too close to see much right now.

RD

[Amendment10]

Bush grants presidency extraordinary powers Directive for emergencies apparently gives authority without congressional oversight

Thank you for this information.

The problem is, who ever said that GW Bush knows anything about constitutional restraints on federal power? Just because he swore to protect and defend the Constitution doesn't mean he knows it.

Also, who cares what Corsi says about the president's powers? Regardless what King-elect Obama's cronies want us to think about Obama's powers, the USSC has already established the precedent that executive orders do not have the force of law as evidenced by the following case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown_Sheet_%26_Tube_Co._v._Sawyer

About executive orders in general:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order_(United_States)

[informavoracious]

The Office of the President-Elect will soon become the Office of the President-for-Life. Unless Barry finds out that being President entails work.

[slnk_rules]

Thanks. Of course the points are not "mine." I am quoting John Piper. His little video on youtube on the attitude of todays Christians toward the election is a great one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGjGbZNyIBY I am reading RM McCheyne's daily bible calendar readings (it takes you thru the bible once and the NT and psalms twice in a year). I notice the stuff in Amos. God says that he is going to bring judgment on the pagan nations for their wickedness. This caught me up. I have so driven a wedge between America and the people of God (a wedge that needed driving, in my opinion) that I just "forgot" that God is active in the affairs of the heathen, pagan nations, and brings them to judgment IN THIS LIFE. Ripping open pregnant women, while much more sadistic, cruel, and vicious than abortion, is still in that genre. Piper asserts that we should "marry as if unmarried, have as though we did not possess" etc from Corinthians. That is, we hold this world and the political machinations at arms length, knowing that this world is both not our home and is corrupt. He argues that we need a huge dose of faith in the sovereignty of God, that He puts down and raises up leaders, and steers human history for the sake and the good of His people. He then states that we need a passion for the progress of the gospel, and that it may be that the gospel will spread and "run rapidly" better in an environment of economic turmoil and loss of personal liberty than in one of prosperity and freedom. That message was balm to my soul on Wednesday.

[informavoracious]

I understand that this world is not my home, but I am not going to turn a blind eye to it either. We still have the responsibility to fight evil.