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November 10, 2008
Obama To Use Executive Orders For Immediate Impact
Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact
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President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.
John Podesta, Obama's transition chief, said Sunday 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.
"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."
Wild Thing's comment........
"Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool."
Paul Begala, former Clinton advisor, The New York Times, July 5, 1998
Bush has issued a total of 274 Executive Orders todate in his 2 terms to this point:
- 165 in his first 4 term,
- 109 in his second so far.
Executive Orders Issued by President George W. Bush
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/orders/
Clinton issued a total of 364 in his two terms:
- 200 in his first 4 years
- 164 in his second 4 yrs.
I bet we see Obama try to ‘out-do’ Clinton in this area.
Posted by Wild Thing at November 10, 2008 05:45 AM
Comments
Would someone PLEASE smack that smug look off of this a&%@hole's face?!?!?!?! What an arrogant puke!!!!
I'm sure executive powers have their place but what good are they if they are abused?!?! When you have a "It's my ball and I'm going to take it and go home" attitude, it is "WE" the people that get screwed!!!!!
Sheesh.....need to find that Jack Daniels again!!!!
Posted by: John at November 10, 2008 09:35 AM
John, LOL gosh I would love that to happen. So many of his photos have that smug stuck up look he has and it is what is inside of him oozing out. He sure is an arrogant puke I agree!!!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 10, 2008 04:56 PM
