John Podesta, Mr. Obama's transition chief, said yesterday Mr. Obama is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on those issues and others as he works to undo policies enacted during eight years of Republican rule. He said the president can use such orders to move quickly on his own.
I think that fat, dumb and apathetic USA citizens deserve to get slapped around by so-called executive powers and executive orders by a renegade, Socialist president until they wise up to the following. The federal Constitution doesn't authorize constitutionally clueless Obama and Congress to do much of the crapola that he promised to do during his campaign.
In fact, where so-called executive orders are concerned, not only does the Constitution not say anything about executive orders, but the USSC ruled in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that executive orders do not have the force of law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown_Sheet_%26_Tube_Co._v._SawyerExecutive orders are evidently a traditional way for the president to put orders to subordinates in writing, orders based on constitutionally delegated federal powers, so that the president has a basis to fire them if they don't do their jobs (corrections welcome).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order_(United_States)
In other words, an executive order has as much lawful impact as a Form 180 sitting on John Kerry's desk, waiting for his signature.
But Obama doesn't want anybody to know this. He couldn't push his Constitution-ignoring, special-interest agenda as president if people understood executive orders.
Again, USA citizens are seemingly choosing the "privilege" of complaining about a federal government that ignores the limited powers delegated to it by the federal Constitution over demanding that the federal government work within its constitutional restraints; arguably a federal government shutdown.
I do believe, after what the Republcrat Party has been dishing up since RWR (excepting Gov. Palin) and the nation sleazes its way into pure communism, there will be a resounding revolution that will cause the political class, their allies and enemies of polite society to be treated as war criminals.