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The CTRL-Z/COMMAND-Z Presidency
Oliver Willis — Undo, baby, undo. 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 ...

Turning Tides
The Mahablog — I do like this kind of talk — “Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions.” Has a catchy ring to it, huh? See also “Harsh Words About Obama? Never Mind Now.” Is it too harsh to say that Joe Lieberman is a douche? The headline that most got my attention this morning is “Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama.” The head is not entirely accurate. The Secret Service did not issue a statement blaming Sarah Palin for anything; the Secret ...

Obama to be fast out of the gate on Bush reversals?
The Moderate Voice — ... .) According to this report from the Washington Post, Barack Obama may be posed to get busy with that fountain pen and make some big changes in his first days in office. ...

Obama Positioned
Jules Crittenden — ... To start quickly governing from the left. WPost on 200-odd quick Obama fixes :  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 ...

As Promised... Obama's First Move Will Be to Expand Abortive Procedures
Gateway Pundit — ... they were all a lie. One of the first moves by the most radical pro-abortion and infanticide candidate in the last 35 years will be to swell the number abortions both here and abroad. At least Obama is keeping his promise to Planned Parenthood. Barack Obama is looking to undo some 200 of George Bush's actions and executive orders... Including expanding abortive procedures. The Washington Post reported: Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have ...

President-in-Training Obama: Now That We've Spent Eight Years Trashing Republicans, Let's All Work Together
JammieWearingFool — ... the economic crisis. Obama, a Democrat who won a decisive victory against Republican John McCain in Tuesday's election to become the first black U.S. president as of January 20, vowed to seek unity. He noted Republican President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush had invited Obama and his wife Michelle to the White House on Monday and that the Bushes had offered to do all they could to help with Obama's transition. Bush's graciousness is met with news that Obama will now be reversing up to 200 executive orders and administration actions. Sure, that's some coming ...

Obama Team Ready To Undo Bush's Parting Shots
DownWithTyranny! — ... to let loose with a barrage of deregulation meant to devastate environmental and consumer protections. Apparently we weren't the only ones concerned. President-elect Obama's transition team is watching closely so they know what to repair on January 21. According to congressional watchdogs, they've "compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse the president on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues." ...

The Double-Edged Sword of the Imperial Presidency
Newshoggers.com — ... The Washington Post is reporting that Obama is set to hit the ground running in regards to reversing many of the none-to-popular Bush administration presidential decrees on things like stem cell research, climate change, and reproductive rights. ...

The Sunday Word: Setting the Table
The Caucus — ... said one Obama adviser, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. “On the other hand, there’s the Roosevelt example and the L.B.J. example, which suggest an extraordinary president can do an awful lot. So that’s the question: Is it too risky for the president to be ambitious?” Once he takes office early next year, Mr. Obama will also be in a position to reverse a slew of presidential executive orders put in place by President Bush. The Washington Post reports that the news president has his sights set on undoing the current administration’s ...

Obama’s First Acts
Patterico's Pontifications — ... The Washington Post reports a team of Obama advisers have been working for months to identify executive orders an Obama Administration could immediately implement to reverse President Bush’s policies in several areas, including abortion. According to Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America: ...

Great Expectations
Shakesville — 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 on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team. ...Obama himself has signaled, for example, that he intends to reverse Bush's controversial limit on federal funding of embryonic stem ...

Election Central Sunday Roundup
TPM Election Central — ... The incoming Obama White House is already getting ready to quickly reverse various George W. Bush policies by executive order: The ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, the prohibition against California settings its own emissions standards, and the global gag-rule that prevents international groups that receive federal funding from counseling women about abortion, among others. ...

Picking from the list of worthwhile goals
Political Animal — ... overnight that Barack Obama's team plans to implement some key and easily-implemented changes almost immediately after taking office. A team of advisers has worked for months to identify key "regulatory and policy changes" Obama could address quickly, and will more on them shortly after the inauguration. The moves, all of which were part of Obama's campaign agenda, include reversing Bush/Cheney policies on climate change, stem cell research, and reproductive rights, most notably the indefensible global gag rule. No drawn out fights, just important progressive policy ...

Why who’s President does matter, example 1 of presumably thousands
pandagon.net - these things don't just blame themselves — by Auguste Oh, I’m sure McCain would have given this due consideration: 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 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 ...

Let The Barry Disappointment Begin
Pirate's Cove — ... Items on the Obama agenda, often hidden in plain sight, are bound to disconcert many of his overseas fans. Much of the disappointment will be unavoidable. Hmm, me thinks it won’t just be those overseas who are disappointed. When talking to Barry voters who are complaining, make sure you give them the smile you reserve for a buddy who got entirely too liquored up the night before when you say “told ya so!” But, there is no disappointment in Abortion On Demand Land Transition advisers to ...

Let The Barry Disappointment Begin
Stop The ACLU — ... shares or property investments in 2008. Items on the Obama agenda, often hidden in plain sight, are bound to disconcert many of his overseas fans. Much of the disappointment will be unavoidable. Hmm, me thinks it won’t just be those overseas who are disappointed. When talking to Barry voters who are complaining, make sure you give them the smile you reserve for a buddy who got entirely too liquored up the night before when you say “told ya so!” But, there is no disappointment in Abortion On Demand Land Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list ...

One Brief Shining . . .
N/A — For Republicans, “it’s not too soon to start thinking about “next time,” as the pros call it. “ Oh, I can’t wait.  And in The Real World, change is gonna come.

Welcome Ed Begley to the FDL Book Salon
Firedoglake — ... But Ed may be peaking at the right moment.  George Bush squandered the opportunity to get the nation to reduce fossil fuel consumption when he told us to go shopping instead after 9/11, but with renewable energy at the top of Barack Obama's "to do" list, Ed may also be a man for the time.  (Tell me this didn't make your heart leap this morning.)   ...

Obama Positioned to start quickly governing from the 'far' left
Hyscience — And I do mean "far left"! His quick-start agenda begins with reversing White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and just about anything and everything that his transition determines was imposed by Bush for "overtly political" reasons and in pursuit of "what Democrats say" was Bush's "partisan Republican agenda": ...

Obama to repeal Bush executive orders
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — This is why, no matter how bad the Democrats get at times, it's far better to have them in power than the Republicans. From the Washington Post: ...

Bush, Obama Meet Today at White House
44 — ... to the house they and their two daughters will occupy for the next four years. But the smiles will likely mask the tension between the two men. Obama won by campaigning against Bush as much as he did by campaigning against Sen. John McCain. He condemned Bush's "failed policies" and urged voters to reject "another four years" of a Bush presidency. Now, Obama is likely to move rapidly to undo some of Bush's legacies: His transition chief, John Podesta, said over the weekend that Obama may use executive orders to ease restrictions on stem cell research, change torture policies ...

Buh-bye Global Gag Rule!
Feministing — ... that President Elect Barack Obama's transition team has compiled a list of Bush administration actions that can be undone quickly - and that ...

Wash Post: Pro-Life Policies are 'Ideologically Offensive'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... "Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions" was carried in the November 9 edition of the Post.  The story revealed that Obama is "now consulting with liberal advocacy groups" in order to create a hit list of "the most onerous or ideologically offensive" regulatory and policy initiatives of the Bush administration.  Two of the top three initiatives singled out in the Post's story are pro-life: embryonic stem cell research and abortion funding. The other is global warming. ...

Progressives Have Leverage NOW: Use It Or Lose It
American Politics Journal RSS Feed — ... on Obama to appoint a civil libertarian/strong Constitutional advocate as Attorney General. We need to hold Obama's feet to the fire if he attempts to continue the CheneyBush approach to civil liberties, torture as state policy, over-reaching executive branch, signing statements that try to vitiate laws passed by Congress, etc. We simply don't know how Obama will act in this regard. One would think his better liberal instincts would prevail (and already his staff has made a list of 200 executive actions that should be overturned soon after Inauguration Day). But earlier ...