09 Nov
Posted by MacRanger as Barack Obama, News
Contrary to media press coverage of THE ONE, not every American voted for him. In fact 56 million of us did not.
According to the Washington Post Obama plans on wasting no time in implimenting his leftist radical agenda.
“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, said a top transition official who was not permitted to speak on the record about the inner workings of the transition.
In some instances, Obama would be quickly delivering on promises he made during his two-year campaign, while in others he would be embracing Clinton-era policies upended by President Bush during his eight years in office.
“The kind of regulations they are looking at” are those imposed by Bush for “overtly political” reasons, in pursuit of what Democrats say was a partisan Republican agenda, said Dan Mendelson, a former associate administrator for health in the Clinton administration’s Office of Management and Budget. The list of executive orders targeted by Obama’s team could well get longer in the coming days, as Bush’s appointees rush to enact a number of last-minute policies in an effort to extend his legacy.
A spokeswoman said yesterday that no plans for regulatory changes had been finalized. “Before he makes any decisions on potential executive or legislative actions, he will be conferring with congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle, as well as interested groups,” Obama transition spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said. “Any decisions would need to be discussed with his Cabinet nominees, none of whom have been selected yet.”
Still, the preelection transition team, comprising mainly lawyers, has positioned the incoming president to move fast on high-priority items without waiting for Congress.
Obama himself has signaled, for example, that he intends to reverse Bush’s controversial limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, a decision that scientists say has restrained research into some of the most promising avenues for defeating a wide array of diseases, such as Parkinson’s.
Bush’s August 2001 decision pleased religious conservatives who have moral objections to the use of cells from days-old human embryos, which are destroyed in the process.
But Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) said that during Obama’s final swing through her state in October, she reminded him that because the restrictions were never included in legislation, Obama “can simply reverse them by executive order.” Obama, she said, “was very receptive to that.” Opponents of the restrictions have already drafted an executive order he could sign.
The new president is also expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal, said Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he rescinded the Reagan-era regulation, known as the Mexico City policy, but Bush reimposed it.
“We have been communicating with his transition staff” almost daily, Richards said. “We expect to see a real change.”
Go ahead, make our day. If King Obama thinks that we will sit idily by why he unprotects the unborn and subjects them to further wanton murder, he’s got a major surprise coming. During the campaign as I pointed out many times Obama flat out lied about his position on abortion. Now there is no reason for the monster to hide his fangs. Again, we will organize and use every means at our disposal, legal and otherwise to oppose any policy that increases abortion in this country or the harvesting of embryos for unproven science.
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skylights
November 9th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
1Don’t forget, at least 65 million Americans got his back.
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Chasey
November 10th, 2008 at 1:05 am
4When did almost half the country disagreeing with him ever stop the almost-former Pres. Bush?
Get over it…abortions have been around as long as sex and no one is forcing you to have one. Stay out of other people’s business and away from my reproductive rights. We have religious freedom in the country and my religion tells me that a baby is a baby when it is viable.
Soon Pres. Obama is going headlong into the disastrous policies of a failed administration to restore true American freedom and justice. And if you were in Grant Park on Nov. 4th you would know that the support he has in doing so is unlike anything the GOP has seen in a generation or two.
When Bush “won” in 2000, the left-wing was derided as liberal cry-babies. Now we see the rise of the ultra-conservative hysterics. Try not to choke on your own tongue.
ttj
November 11th, 2008 at 8:03 am
5What would someone like Chasey, who would reject a baby based on its viability (perhaps with a cost-benefit study?) know about “true American freedom and justice?” Hear this Chasey: for hundreds of years, people fought hard to preserve life and their right to it. They didn’t ask whether it was convenient for them. If you doubt this, consider that the constitutions says: “The right to LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It doesn’t talk about the right to murder, or the right to death.
But I don’t know Mac. Maybe Chasey has a point. Maybe we’d be better off if people like Chasey didn’t have offspring. It’s a sad proposition, but Chasey appears to demand it on the basis of “reproductive rights.” Chasey can’t be bothered to consider the rights of other living beings after the moment of conception.
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