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."

[real_patriotic_american]

Before Obama issues Executive Orders, he needs to prove that he is even an American citizen. Otherwise, he is ineligible to serve as President. Please sign the enclosed petition (at web site) asking the Goverment to enforce the Constitution against Obama and require proof of citizenship:

http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244

[ladyvet]

January 30, 1933.

[nobama08]

Don’t worry! Nobama is going to give us all green cars and we won’t need oil! And he’s going to pay our mortgages. We are so screwed!

[nobama08]

Don’t worry! Nobama is going to give us all green cars and we won’t need oil! And he’s going to pay our mortgages. We are so screwed!

[nobama08]

Don’t worry - he’s surrounded by Clinton people. Doesn’t that make you feel better?

[padre35]

Shocking...

[fwdude]

Let’s all stock up on gas while it’s cheap.

Yeah, stash it your swimming pools, or something.

[fwdude]

We won’t deserve it but everybody that voted for him will deserve the $7.00/gallon gas that’s coming.

Wrong, that will only make the evil oil companies richer. The Obamanation will put price controls on gas, resulting in horrendous shortages. You will be happy to pay $7/gal - if you can find it.

[~Vor~]

"Don’t worry - he’s surrounded by Clinton people. Doesn’t that make you feel better?"

Deja vu...

Stroke of the pen, law of the land.

[DustyMoment]

I don’t deny that many, many presidents have made many policy changes via EO, but Bubba excelled at it and wrote more than most presidents combined since the EO began.

By contrast, Bush has been very reluctant to use EOs to govern and has written far fewer than Clinton certainly ever did. Bear in mind that, when Clinton couldn’t get something that he wanted through the Congress, he’d just write an EO. Bush, at least, took his Congressional defeats with honor and grace and didn’t run back to his office to write an EO to get his way.

Neither I nor anyone, at this point, knows how abusive Obama might be with his EOs but, from the sound of it, he’s not off to a promising start.

[Political Junkie Too]

See? I posted this Vanity on November 1:

How will Obama Use "Stroke of the pen, law of the land?" (Vanity)

Now we know.

-PJ

[RWB Patriot]

I don’t suppose anyone could point me to President Bush’es executive orders on stem-cell research? I’m looking at a list of them on wikipedia and I’m not seeing anything regarding stem-cell research.

[EBH]

Yeah...I know we've been warning people for months. I had some posts really, really scoffed at too. I had said he was dangerous, dangerous like Mussolini, fascist dangerous. I told people to vote Hillary in the primaries, not because of operation chaos, but because Obama was dangerous to our freedom and Obama would win just like Mussolini and Hitler won on their rhetoric.

Now... here we are with the table set for our new leader. The first course is the Executive Order. Just a light sprinkling of dressing on it. The main course is the Constitution steak, medium rare please with a side of Patriot Act and put a bit of sour cream on HSPD-20. Dessert is of course NSPD-51.

In Bush's days we look back at a man who could be trusted with such power. BDS will seem but an anomalous blip in history.

I don't own enough tinfoil these days, but it is difficult to not read between the great leader's lines. Ideas like mandatory civil service for all, spread the wealth, manufactured crisis, online army, tools, internet propaganda weapons, financial seizure of 401k & ira, gun bans, fairness doctrine, no oil, no coal etc. We're already witnessing people who lose their job for speaking out against our great leader's agenda.

And we haven't marched through the gates of hell yet. We're only standing outside the fence looking into the great abyss being mesmerized by the flames that burn so brightly that we are blinded by it and the swirl of hot magma that calls us to its embrace.

yeah...Ok...I'll stop now...go get another cup of coffee...maybe wake up from this horrible nightmare...we have a new day to start...

[sheik yerbouty]

A line from Becket comes to mind. I shall not quote it thogh..