Posted on 11/09/2008 3:46:11 PM PST by EBH
"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."
Executive orders "have the power of law and they can cover just about anything," Tobias said in a telephone interview.
On drilling, the federal Bureau of Land Management is opening about 360,000 acres of public land in Utah to oil and gas drilling. Bush administration officials argue that the drilling will not harm sensitive areas; environmentalists oppose it.
"They want to have oil and gas drilling in some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah," Podesta said. "I think that's a mistake."
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I bet Obama is going to go farther and pardon crooks like Tony Rezko, the Weathermen, and maybe cop-killer Mumia. Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick too.
All I am hearing is how they want immediate reversal of the Stem Cell order. IOW lets take as many aborted babies as we can get our hands on and experiment with them. The hundreds of available lines that Bush allowed access too are obviously not enough... years of science have yeilded nothing in that arena, yet it seems Obama is so intend on destroying the morality of America by delving into what Many Americans feel is God’s work.
So if we are against this and if we protest it will we be called Racists, bigots, bitter Americans?
Biden gave it six months before their poll numbers were in the tank due to the manufactured apocalypse of their choosing (or something like that).
Gird your loins.
I expect an executive order on abortion the first day, just like clinton.
Also, probably, gays in the military.
Who needs that pesky Constitution and the other two branches of government? We Libs totally control them anyhow, or soon will!
Why not just send them all into fat retirements and save the money for more bread and circuses or jails?
Yes, certainly more jails. We will need them for the dissidents.
Or maybe we can just charge the relatives for the cost of the spent bullets and save on the bread and water?
Or maybe we can just put those shirkers and wreckers at hard labor in the arctic cutting quotas of lumber and mining salt for their moldy bread? It's not like it hasn't been tried and proven a successful policy before!
It is the whole ‘mandate’ thing. It wasn’t a landslide or a mandate.
I have never felt our country was in so much trouble as it is right now. I have also never felt so helpless.
I guess those Impeach 0bama websites that are already set-up are not a bad idea.
And all those Liberals, Democrats and the MSM were saying Bush was going to do that, suspend the Constitution and rule by Executive Orders ... The Obamination of America will start. First off I think guns will be banned, next no oil drilling anywhere ever ... this guy is starting to be real scary ... and what’s this “Office Of The President Elect”??????
Historical perspective on Presidential Decrees:
Marcos’ Martial Law
Monday, Oct. 02, 1972
TIME Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,906446-1,00.html
Without warning, police squads late last week walked into Manila’s newspaper offices and broadcast stations, ordered staffers to leave and posted announcements Stating THIS BUILDING IS CLOSED AND SEALED AND PLACED UNDER MILITARY CONTROL. Domestic air flights were grounded and overseas telephone operators refused to accept incoming calls. Finally, after several hours of mystifying silence, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos went on nationwide radio and TV to proclaim a state of martial law. Civil government would be continued, he said, but campuses would be closed. Restrictions on travel, the press and communications would remain in force until the government dealt with “a conspiracy to overthrow the government.”
It was a drastic step; martial law had never before been imposed in the Philippines, despite the country’s long history of social and political violence. And yet, though troops took up positions all over Manila, there were few other visible signs of emergency. Nightclubs, casinos and movie theaters remained open; shoppers were out in their usual numbers the next day. Filipinos accepted the measures calmly, even cynically, for they had been widely anticipated.
Only two weeks ago, in an atmosphere of rapidly increasing belligerence between the Marcos regime, its political opposition and a burgeoning Philippine revolutionary movement, the President warned that he would not hesitate to assume emergency powers if he deemed them necessary. He finally did so six hours after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate one of Marcos’ chief aides, Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile. As the Secretary was heading home from his office in Manila, a carload of gunmen intercepted his car and riddled it with 30 shots; Enrile, who was riding with security men in a second car, was unhurt. The gunmen escaped unidentified.
Sorry ... but abortions are the VERY least of our worries now
but but but... we will all be on water driven cars of the future by then right?.... and if we aren’t it will be our own faults because we are greedy Americans sucking up all of Earths resources and destroying the Planet.......
Could Bush kick open the gates of Yucca Mountain as a parting executive order? If he did so now, this would be hard to reverse in January.
Along with the 30 cent-per-kilowatthour electricity, and the $40 per thousand cubic foot natural gas.
After the swearing in of President Uhhbamuh..uh..every one of those will be collected for consideration to make sure his excellency has not been misaligned in any way. Then it's off to Camp Obama for new thoughts for us all.
Utah = Red State. Say no more...
The American people bought a slickly packaged product. The campaign was a marketing campaign based on image and nice-sounding words. It’s going to be like buying a Coke and wondering why, when you’re done drinking it, your life hasn’t changed.
No, our lives are going to change. Just not how they thought.
I can’t believe this is really about to happen. I just got off the phone with a friend last night saying it will still take some time as congress has to work it out.
Wow...see my tagline...
right on Tony & more
And the return of the 55 mph speed limit, not because we need it, but because it's good disicpline for the people.
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