November 09, 2008

He'll Sign His Name and ::POOF::: It's All Gone

As my mom would say when someone rushes her with something:

"Geez, jump in my grave, why don't you?"

Perhaps President Bush is saying the same thing as this story is released:

"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."

Wow, the man hasn't even been sworn in and he's planning on kiboshing things with his brand-spanking new executive orders? I know Bush did it and so did Reagan, not to mention Clinton, but I'm pretty sure they waited until they had their own presidental seal to make such announcements.

The way this John Podesta states this makes it look like Obama will take office and just willy nilly undo everything that has been done in the past eight years. I hope for the sake of "reaching across the aisle" that he carefully reviews each of these decisions before he proceeds to do the reverse simply because it was initiated under a Republican, rather than because he feels it is the best decision (whether or not we agree with it).

"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."

Frankly, these plans scare me. I can see ::shudder::: the partial birth abortion ban lifted, eighty-sixing drilling, embryos being conceived and harvested merely for destruction, maybe immediately removing BCIS from our borders, systematically issuing illegal aliens driver's licenses, all with a penstroke...who knows?

At the end of this article is a real funny note:
"In other transition matters, Obama's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, would not say whether Obama would return to the Senate for votes during the postelection session this month."

Does it matter if Obama returns to the Senate? Will a vote of "present" make a difference?

Cross-posted at Claudia4Libertad.com

Posted by Claudia4Libertad at November 9, 2008 10:37 PM

Comments

It's not like he was ever really a senator to begin with.

Posted by: Henry Louis Gomez [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 9, 2008 11:44 PM

What do you mean? Can you just ignore all the legislation he authored? Oh. Uh, all the committees he chaired? Um. His impeccable voting record. Er. Right.

Posted by: Claudia4Libertad [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 10, 2008 12:03 AM

FYI - Partial birth abortion ban is a federal law. Only an act of congress can repeal it. It's not an executive order.

If the Dem congress goes out of control by passing the Freedom of Choice Act which makes abortion on demand the law of the land (superseding all state law controls such as parental notification) coupled with the reversal on federal funding on stem cells and all the other crazy things they have in mind when it's the economy that's on everyone's mind, they'll be plenty of hell to pay in the mid term congressional elections.

Posted by: Cigar Mike Pancier [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 10, 2008 06:07 AM

I guess that is a little consolation (partial birth ban).

Posted by: Claudia4Libertad [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 10, 2008 06:33 AM

it's just politics, sucks ass but it is. if i am not mistaken...and I very well could be our funding of abortions oversees was cut due to EO so it could be reversed. I've never liked the use of EOs because just as easily as we use it the next guy (or gal) can flip it around.

Posted by: theCardinal [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 10, 2008 08:25 AM

Cardinal, the ban of federal funding for abortion domestic and foreign is federal law. Been on the books since the Reagan administration. It is not an executive order.

Posted by: Cigar Mike Pancier [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 10, 2008 08:36 AM

Thanks Cigar Mike - i knew the Hyde Amendement applied domestically but was not sure about foreign. Appreciate the clarification

Posted by: theCardinal [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 10, 2008 12:55 PM

just figured out that my confusion was over the "Mexico City Policy" that Reagan implemented, Clinton rescinded and Bush re-instated. No funding for NGOs that counsel or fund abortions. Obama will flip that by sun down on inauguration day. I wonder what Douglas Kmeic will say then.

Posted by: theCardinal [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 10, 2008 01:00 PM

Douglas Kmiec drank so deeply of the Kool-Aid that ANYTHING Obama does will be A-OK with him. Like Tribe, he's auditioning for a Supreme Court appointment, or at least a circuit court judgeship.

Posted by: Dave J [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 10, 2008 07:19 PM

Mike-

Bush used EO to get rid of overseas funding for abortions- it's in the article. Does an EO apply only to overseas aid and nothing here?

Posted by: Claudia4Libertad [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 10, 2008 11:03 PM


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