With a Stroke of a Pen, ::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?

Comments

[Tomas Estrada-Palma]

Obama will do exactly as he is told - just like all of his predecessors for the past 95 years. It's a game the syndicates play and we're the pieces they move about the board using the big network media.