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Obama team reviewing 'virtually every agency,' aide says

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The head of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team said Sunday that the incoming administration is conducting an extensive review of President Bush's executive orders.

"I would say that as a candidate, Sen. Obama said that he wanted all the Bush executive orders reviewed and decide which ones should be kept and which ones should be repealed and which ones should be amended, and that process is going on. It's been undertaken," Podesta said Sunday on "Fox News."

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I am surprised to see someone actually doing something about Bush's Executive Orders. With all of the conspiracy theories thrown around about how Bush will invoke martial law and all of the other stuff that the Executive Orders could bring, I think this is a blow to them. But, Bush is still in office and anything could happen until he is out.

But, I applaud President-Elect Obama for this one. I hope now, we can bring the country back to where we can all love being a part of the U.S.

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Originally posted by BASSPLYR
this is a start in the right direction. now that he knows that he is going to be president he is reviewing all of bushes policies and laws that he passed and is already considering what is the most important facets of bushes mess he should prioritize and fix first.

Originally posted by truthquest
This is a good thing, but I do wish he wouldn't stop with just Bush's orders.

Well, I don't think he should stop with Bush's mess either: The damage to America started several decades ago, but Bush just happens to have been the one who pushed the damage to critical levels during his Administration. Obama should investigate everything, especially in comparing the Constitution with the Federal Reserve Act.

Quite a few things should just be banned, voided, etc...Some of the first things that comes to my mind is the Patriot Act & fire the entirety of FEMA & Homeland Security...Oh, Blackwater should be fired too.

Oh, also Obama should have a look at starting to reinforce Executive Order 11110 & get the original proposal for NESARA finally introduced to Congress. Forget that scam-group Nesara & indict them for fraud: A group founded by ex-communicated Mormons, no less, seeking to force their "ideal utopia" on everyone, with no alternative choices being tolerated! Gee, that's just like what governments (all throughout human history) want to do, but these scam artists use an extremist religious spin on it!

Considering that it's other people running his Transition Team, Obama may find that he's just as open to being duped by them about the nature of Bush's EO's as anyone else...Unless Obama intends to look over everything by himself, he's still just putting his own trust in what somebody else tells him.

If Obama really wants to restore Public Trust in a Public Office, he's gonna have to work at it, because of the massive damage already done over the past 100 years or so. IMO, I still don't think that's what he really has in mind though...

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Neither do I.

And the very fact that he is already hiring goons who were behind some of the economic fraud mess we're in doesn't exactly inspire confidence that he is going to "change" much. Not to mention him voting FOR the criminal fraud wall street bailout, and voting FOR illegal warrantless domestic spying and wiretapping programs the Decider's admin instigated...

"Reviewing" is fine and dandy, but I'm not going to hold my breath that anything will come of it. Hopefully I'll be proven wrong.



[edit on 9-11-2008 by DimensionalDetective]

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Thanks for bringing that to light, I will now have to look into this much further. Now, it makes you really wonder what will happen in the future.

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They would have to prosecute all of Washington. And this isn't a cynical remark. No president would do that because it would set a precedent for all future administrators in that office. It's like one cozy little club down there. Many, it seems, are above the law; and they are quite craftily evading it. But I do believe he will do the best he can "within" the full extent of his power. However, there seems to be a limit to how many investigations one can perform without invoking the retaliation of some fairly influential thugs. I think part of his sullen appearance on Friday's press conference had something to do with the security debriefing and the things he may have learned about some of his close colleagues in Washington. So we'll see where this goes. I do not believe the president-elect will waste so much time going through those documents in but a vein attempt at prosecuting the former cabinet. He will, however, use that investigation as a relevant source of information for purposes of his own cabinet's operation. He will rectify those executive orders' most obvious flaws, condemn then, and move on. But don't expect this presidency to usher into a golden era of justice and retribution. He's going to use what limited time he has in office to pursue first that which he proposed throughout his campaign.

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Look, politicians cannot possibly solve every problem. But they can use law and dialogue to confront the major issues. Both running candidates voted for the EESA, but I suspect it was mostly for campaign reasons. They did so as to affirm their capability to consolidate their parties under some rather acute socioeconomic circumstances.

Imagine if that bill never passed, if neither of the campaigning presidential candidates even voted on it, or if perhaps only John McCain had, or vice versa. If it never passed, and only one of them had voted, then he who voted would have gained a substantial campaign advantage over the other. There would be severe economic turmoil without that bill; that is an indisputable reality (though many of you would love to believe it was merely the sinister inner workings of the New World Order elite). So if John McCain had voted, and Obama hadn't, and the EESA never passed, in whatever form... and factoring in the ensuing economic turmoil (the likes of the Great Depression) John McCain would use that against Obama in his campaign and be elected quite unanimously. Many of you probably don't realize it, but that was a very, very delicate time in American history. And that was only three or four weeks ago. They didn't have the option "not to vote, or even vote against as their constituencies would have loved". If the people refuse to be taxed, and that refusal is comprised of an entirely unsubstantiated complaint, then they should all just suck it. Sometimes we act like an unintelligible mob. And although may do not agree with this country's increasingly socialist tendencies, such a paradigm shift is almost inevitable. We've learned you don't need absolute devastation to teach the market a lesson. Billions of dollars worth of taxpayers monies were spent, and billions more lost on the stock market. However, we now have better regulation, and a whole lot of freaked out businesses. Canada can do it, why can't the America?

However, the government must refuse to both reward and reinforce business itself. GM and Ford are going out of the business because they apparently refuse to diversify. They think they can rely on America's massive influxes of oil. And even though they continue with this stubborn refusal, the government is bailing them out as well. That so many jobs depend on this company, and not just those created by the company itself, is just a poor excuse. In a rapidly evolving world, you can't give special treatment to these companies with absolutely no foresight. They will eventually fail and there will be nothing any government can do to stop it. Those jobs will be lost eventually, but apparently the government thinks they should hold on to them for another five years than lose them now. In fact, losing them now would be the best course, as those workers could immediately begin retraining, and the industry would get the stimulus it needs to invest in new technology. There will so much stagnation otherwise.

[edit on 10-11-2008 by cognoscente]

Originally posted by jhill76


I am surprised to see someone actually doing something about Bush's Executive Orders. With all of the conspiracy theories thrown around about how Bush will invoke martial law and all of the other stuff that the Executive Orders could bring, I think this is a blow to them. But, Bush is still in office and anything could happen until he is out.

But, I applaud President-Elect Obama for this one. I hope now, we can bring the country back to where we can all love being a part of the U.S.

www.cnn.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

not so fast! how do you know the changes or reviews will be better for you or worse for you? how do you know which bits he will keep and which bits he will toss in the trashcan?

forget the conspiracy theories, they are not the point. the fact is untill change for the better has occurred you cannot really assume what the changes and reviews will be or look like.

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