boomantribune.com - 11/9/2008
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I think this is what it looks like to be ready on Day One: 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. An example? The new president is also expected to lift a ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/9/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
Change We Can Believe In From the Washington
Post: "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 ...
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Change We Can Believe In
ourfuture.org - 11/9/2008
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ourfuture.org —
The top reasons polled voters supported Barack Obama:
Would withdraw troops from Iraq (35 percent), would be...
for the middle class (32 percent) and has a plan for affordable health care for all (29 percent) The top issues that voters think Obama should ...
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The Change Election Awaiting Change
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/5/2008
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
The day before the election, Barack Obama was
a socialist. The day after the election, he only...
won because he’s a centrist in line with the views of “center-right” America. Check out Amanda Terkel’s compilation : ...
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Times Change
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Chang We Can Believe In
Eschaton —
One thing our press does a bad job of communicating generally is the power the president can wield with executive orders. Obama can do a lot. Yes he can! ...
Why who’s President does matter, example 1 of presumably thousands
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... has said, for example, that he intends to quickly reverse the Bush administration’s decision last December to deny California the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.
Wow. It’s almost as if one President enacted a bunch of policies which were politically motivated, and as if electing a President who’s much closer to sharing our politics somehow leads to policies which are better! That’s just weird.
(h/t Booman Tribune)
Let The Barry Disappointment Begin
Pirate's Cove —
... to dump good money after bad.
Anyhow, the over/under on Libs/progressives going stone cold barking moonbatAndrew Sullivan/Glenn Greenwald on Obama is May 20.
Others covering the second story via Memeorandum: Hot Air, Hullabaloo, Associated Press, The Moderate Voice, The Impolitic, The Caucus, Jules Crittenden, Booman Tribune, www.redstate.com, ...
Let The Barry Disappointment Begin
Stop The ACLU —
... demands. Which is why researchers into ESC want federal money, because private reseach doesn’t want to dump good money after bad. Anyhow, the over/under on Libs/progressives going stone cold barking moonbat Andrew Sullivan/Glenn Greenwald on Obama is May 20. Others covering the second story via Memeorandum : Hot Air , Hullabaloo , Associated Press , The Moderate Voice , The Impolitic , The Caucus , Jules Crittenden , Booman Tribune , www.redstate.com , Shakesville , Agitprop , ...
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The Sideshow —
I've never really understood how something like executive orders came into existence in the first place. We have presidents making policy that is pretty much antithetical to the laws of the United States, and it seems to be perfectly legal. I keep reading up on it and I still can't figure out how they get away with it. ...
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shakespearessister.blogspot.com 11/9/2008 — This is music to my ears. Please, Maude, let it be so: 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 ...
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Change? Not Much
powerlineblog.com 11/26/2008 — Barack Obama has now announced his economic team, and the consistent theme is continuity with the policies of the Bush administration. Tim Geithner will be the new Secretary of the Treasury. He is so well respected on Wall Street that the market ...
Obama should be like Bush
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/10/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings At least according to TNR's Jonathan Cohn. Cohn argues that has actually accomplished a great deal as president, from overhauling the tax code to reforming education to gutting the regulatory state to rewriting ...
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huffingtonpost.com 11/19/2008 — WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's incoming administration is unlikely to bring criminal charges against government officials who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush presidency. Obama, who ...
John Brennan: Change We Cannot Believe In
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 11/25/2008 —
The good news from last night's 60 Minutes interview is that Obama has clearly committed himself to ending the torture policy of Bush and Cheney. But that clarity will sadly be in doubt if Marc is right and John Brennan becomes the next CIA ...
Instapundit.com -
pajamasmedia.com 11/11/2008 — November 11, 2008 NO SURPRISE: "President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party. ...
Bush keeping Obama up to speed on G20:Treasury —
Reuters: Politics 11/9/2008
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The U.S. administration of President George W. Bush is keeping President-elect Barack Obama's economic team "up to speed" on what will be discussed at next weekend's G20 financial summit in Washington, a U.S. Treasury official ...
Obama Reviews Bush’s Executive Orders —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 11/9/2008
Gary Fields reports from Washington on President-elect Obama’s transition:
President-elect Obama would make an economic-recovery plan his first priority after taking office, if the current Congress and the Bush administration fail to ...
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