indeed.
Posted on 01/12/2009 4:57:14 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama to reverse Bush executive orders By: Ben Smith and Lisa Lerer January 12, 2009 06:15 PM EST
President-elect Barack Obama is expected to move swiftly to reverse executive orders regarding torture of terror suspects, the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and other controversial security policies, sources close to his transition said, in dramatic gestures aimed at reversing President Bush’s accumulation of executive power.
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) said he’s been informed that President Obama will support his proposed legislation to make public some opinions from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which issued some of the Bush Administration's most sweeping claims of executive power. Obama also has promised to limit President Bush's practice of using "signing statements" to amend legislation.
"Every day we get indications that they're serious about reversing the abuses of the Constitution," Feingold, a harsh Bush critic, told Politico. Feingold said Obama's staff told him to expect executive orders rapidly reversing Bush policies on the interrogation and detention of terror suspects, and on keeping the records of past presidents secret. He declined to be more specific.
"I don't know in what order or how fast" Obama’s executive orders could come, he said. "It'll be important that a couple of them be done immediately, and I think they will be, to show there's a strong break from the current policy."
Chris Lu, executive director of Obama’s transition team, told supporters in a conference call earlier this month that Obama’s aides have “started developing executive orders that the pres elect is considering –not only ones the President-elect will sign after January 20, but also ones we will want to repeal."
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indeed.
Amen. Yes thank you GW. You will be missed. Obama and his administration better hope al Qaeda does not strike here because the democrats will never be trusted with power again.
Another one of Clinton’s last minute EO’s was lowering the arsenic level in drinking water where compliance would be very expensive if even possible (arsenic is a natural substance in the water supply). City gov’ts. across the nation screamed bloody murder when Bush took office, and he reversed this EO. It was all done to make Bush look bad showing he was against drinking water safety.
That leaves some very disturbing EO’s from Clinton that Bush didn’t reverse, such as the cleanest coal in the world out there in Utah being made part of the UN’s heritage parks and thus off limits for mining (the ChiCom were the benefactors of that one). Also Clinton ensured that our troops wear the UN patch and beret and take orders from UN commanders under a very secret EO. We know about it because of one brave soldier who was court martialed for refusing to follow this order in the Kosovo “conflict” - he said his oath was to defend his country, not the UN - he was hung out to dry. Bush didn’t reverse that one, for obvious reasons - he’s a Globalist, too.
It’s very common, especially when the opposite party takes over. We just have a healthy fear of what the O-Man will do.
You forgot Don’t ask don’t Tell and FOCA which will close many Maternity Wards in Catholic Hospitals...
The entire f'en RAT party is an violation of the Constitution.
We know for sure that "Man made global climate change" won't be the death of us with the Messiah at the helm.
Of course most of us knew this long ago.
He was also in shock. And he’s a dad himself (of 2 girls who had early problems but I think 99 percent of Dads would be proud to have them) so he knows how to work with kids.
Bush should do some EOs this week just to make Obama reverse them but he has too much class.
Which states are lining up to take the Gitmo detainees? Wait till the detainees start to scream about mistreatment when their new situations are nowhere as nice as they were in Gitmo. And if the authorities give in to the detainees then the main line cons will riot.
There’s one thing we’ve been for 7 years that we won’t be with 0bama at the helm -
protected by the entity whose (only) job it is to do so.
Well, maybe they’ll think twice about voting for “the black guy” just because it’s cool to do so.
Unfortunately, though, a vacuum in executive power will simply give more power to the Communist leadership in the House and Senate, and to America's other enemies...
See Isiah 24:1-12
We get the government we deserve.
May God have mercy on us.
Yep, here comes the Democrats’ witch hunt. The Democrats aren’t worth the effort to defend them.
And FOCA..........I want to cry.
Our country is about to be treated to the spectacle of this know-nothing, done-nothing yutz stepping in dogshit with every step he takes for the next four years.
I hope we survive.
You forgot these Obama executive orders:
Stand down all nuclear missiles to launch on impact
Suspend deployment of NMD systems to Poland
Suspend/delay weapons research
Allow China and Russia to see US/NATO military plans
Rapidly pull out of Iraq contrary to promises not to
Allow gays in the military
The return of klintonian rule.
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