Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team.
A team of four dozen advisers, working for months in virtual solitude, set out to identify regulatory and policy changes Obama could implement soon after his inauguration. The team is now consulting with liberal advocacy groups, Capitol Hill staffers and potential agency chiefs to prioritize those they regard as the most onerous or ideologically offensive.
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Despite enormous pent-up Democratic frustration, Obama and his team realize they must strike a balance between undoing Bush actions and setting their own course, said Winnie Stachelberg, the center’s senior vice president for external affairs.“It took eight years to get into this mess, and it will take a long time to get out of it,” she said. “The next administration needs to look ahead. This transition team and the incoming administration gets that in a big way.”
An interesting, vaguely unrelated point was made by, I think, Pat Buchannan on The McLaughlin Group this weekend regarding the missiles Bush wants to put in Poland and the ones the Russians would put next door as a counter. What will probably happen is Obama will suggest the Poles have a referendum on the missiles which they would vote down and then we would honor that. Gets us out of a pointless confrontation with the Russians and we don’t build a hideously expensive system that some say won’t work if it was.
71 days and counting…
Would have to bring Dumbya Bush and Prick Cheney BEFORE THE BAR OF JUSTICE IN CHAINS !!! After their CONVICTION AS ***INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMINALS AND WAR PROFITEERS*** they shoud get a LIFE SENTENCE AT GITMO – WITH DAILY WATER-BOARDINGS !!! (The water boardings being “college frat pranks” per Rash Limpdick and not torture!!!)
The obvious flaw in this article is the term “swiftly”. The US government does nothing SWIFTLY. With the exception of spending huge amounts of money. Like it just did to bailout Wall Street. Or approve a pointless war, as it did in Iraq. But reverse anything it had already approved of, never happens SWIFTLY. Obama can’t unsign anything Bush signed into existence. But the ignorant public might be lead to believe this.
#32 Welp, that explains the last 8 years.
This focus on rapid change is going to be a disaster… as president, you don’t just try to enact as many policies as possible as quickly as you can that agree with your political agenda.