Obama To Use Executive Orders For Immediate Impact

Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact
Washington …for complete article
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.