News and Politics | January 13, 2009 | 59 comments

Obama to reverse Bush's executive orders

source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17365.html

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President-elect Barack Obama is expected to move swiftly to reverse executive orders regarding torture of terror suspects, the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and other controversial security policies, sources close to his transition said, in dramatic gestures aimed at reversing President Bush’s accumulation of executive power.

Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) said he’s been informed that President Obama will support his proposed legislation to make public some opinions from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which issued some of the Bush Administration's most sweeping claims of executive power. Obama also has promised to limit President Bush's practice of using "signing statements" to amend legislation.

"Every day we get indications that they're serious about reversing the abuses of the Constitution," Feingold, a harsh Bush critic, told Politico. Feingold said he thinks Obama is likely to issue executive orders rapidly reversing Bush policies, and others have indicate that those will likely cover the interrogation and detention of terror suspects, and keeping the records of past presidents secret.

-Here comes the transparency we've been lacking over the last 8 years. Brace yourselves. This is going to be ugly.- Bansheewail
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59 comments // Obama to reverse Bush's executive orders

  • uppityprogressive
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      uppityprogressive  

    • The Righties who frequent this list confuse me, they seem to defend everything fascist, oppressive and anti-democratic...especially if it was done by Bush-co, and attack everything democratic, but they call all "leftists" fascists...

      Maybe they don't understand what fascism is. Literally, the binding of corporate or industrial interests with government, ultimately eliminating the voice of the population.

      These folks are tedious in their commentary and a sharp contrast to the thinking, investigative and compassionate others who appear on Current. I guess they are just here to thrash someone, since they clearly are not changing anyone's mind.

    • 3 years ago
  • Wang111
    • Wang111  
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  • akamaial
  • cool0ne
  • akamaial
  • nkeg87
  • akamaial
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      akamaial [removed]  
    • cool0ne:

      Yes, meticulously planned and simply executed. I'm sorry my friend, I can't and won't buy into a conspiracy theory other than that of Arab radical terrorist. Osama bin Ladin did take credit for planning it, remember? End of discussion with me.

    • 3 years ago
  • akamaial
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  

    • Great Barack.

      NOW BRING BACK JOHN KENNEDY'S EXECUTIVE ORDER 1110.

      Take money printing away from the Federal Reserve, and restore it to it's rightful place.

      The Department of Treasury.

    • 3 years ago
  • jubal
  • judiestar
  • damnneargenius
  • hibbittyskibbitty
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  

    • Yeh, no more Bush to keep telling us too be very afraid, I know the right wing likes a daddy figure in charge and being told what too do but Bush is a bobble head. Break one open someday and see what's inside.

    • 3 years ago
  • mik661
  • judiestar
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      judiestar  
    • mik661:

      It could have...Bush could have declared himself supreme ruler forever and created a military state....its not like he doesnt have enough people in his pocket to get away with it.

    • 3 years ago
  • akamaial
  • pedrozero
  • mako2424
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      mako2424  

    • I'm waiting. Once he starts delivering on some of these promises (this isn't a promise, its speculation from Sen. Feingold and anonymous sources), then I'll pat him on the back.

    • 3 years ago
  • IMMININT
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      IMMININT  

    • I find that most conservatives aren't actually the ideal their side supports, but rather the nasty transformation the neo-cons have made it. What happened to the real honest conservatives that want free-market economy and to keep our head out of other people's business?

    • 3 years ago
  • lifestudentno83
  • judiestar
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  
    • IMMININT:

      Those aren't the conservatives, those are the libertarians that want "free-market economy and to keep our head out of other people's business"

      You have your political platforms mixed up, since the conservatives want to "conserve" all the profits for themselves.

      The best example of their desire for the opposite of a "free market economy" is the bailouts they've had because if that were true then would've let the companies that had bad busines practices go broke and let the market be "free" to let the more soundly efficient compainies take their place to create a stronger market.

    • 3 years ago
  • jubal
  • Ricky84
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      Ricky84  

    • I love how when we talk about the constitution the only thing discussed is Gitmo. Call me crazy but Gitmo is not the only unconstitutional act commissioned by President Bush.

    • 3 years ago
  • nkeg87
  • strangeyellowpattern
  • lifestudentno83
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      lifestudentno83  

    • I love it how Conservatives hate the Constitution but call Liberals, Independents, and Constitutionalists the ones who hate the country...

      As if Patriotism equates to oppression...

    • 3 years ago
  • pakazak
  • UWAZell
  • akamaial
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      akamaial [removed]  
    • lifestudentno83:

      I got to say this, you are saying that conservatives hate the constitution ? No one has worked harder to protect it from subversion. You haven't a clue. You best go back and hit the books and ignore that leftist sociology professor

    • 3 years ago
  • nkeg87
  • akamaial
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  

    • Unless someone objects, and then he'll reverse them back, unless someone disagrees, them he'll reverse them again, unless someone opposes that view, and then he'll reverse the reversal, unless there another opinion, then he'll reverse that reversal...

    • 3 years ago
  • onechance
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      onechance  
    • JohnA:

      You sound a bit like Donald Rumsfeld, talking in rounds and all...

      "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."

    • 3 years ago
  • JohnA
  • ii386
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      ii386  
    • JohnA:

      You act like talking over issues and avoiding real answers is a rarity. You make it seem like all of his stances are here and then there, just blowing with the wind. I would like some proof of his contradictions or gullibility.

      Oh wait, he isn't president yet. Oh yeah.

    • 3 years ago
  • jcarnage
  • pakazak
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      pakazak  

    • well, deathimmortal, if you had quizno's for lunch it prob tasted better the 2nd time anyway.
      the 'totalitarian' state is what we're dumping on 1/19/09.
      maybe you don't remember the constitution. it was in all the social studies/civics books. it's the document bushco has been wiping their asses with for the past 8 years.
      now he should be made to lick it clean and beg the american people not to throw his stupid white ass in jail

    • 3 years ago
  • nkeg87
  • Nephwrack
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      Nephwrack  

    • is this the part where we find out bush and co are responsible for 9/11?

      oh and deathimmortal.. conservatives make me puke in my mouth too so we're even.

    • 3 years ago
  • Nealeigh
  • DeathImmortal
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      DeathImmortal  

    • you liberals just made me puke in my own mouth. Thanks. I had quizno's for lunch and Now I'm all better just like the economy and the state of the government now that a democrat is in the white house again right?

      I guess it is changing though, "remember when we had a democracy instead of a totalitarian state?"- that's what you can ask your grandkids, Musolini.

    • 3 years ago
  • UWAZell
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      UWAZell  
    • DeathImmortal:

      Correction: '[Do] you remember when we had a democracy instead of a totalitarian state? Of course not because Obama restored all of the rights that silly Mr Bush allegedly took away and stopped torturing unknown amounts of people just to get to a presumed few'.

      I honestly cannot see how you can reasonably make such a ridiculous claim that the greatest democracy is going the way of a toleration state.

    • 3 years ago
  • onechance
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      onechance  
    • DeathImmortal:

      Your hatred only hurts YOU. It's sad to see you have such a backward idea in your mind.

      Liberals want peace and prosperity for ALL, not just for the top 2%, so unless you're part of it, you're barking at the wrong crowd my friend.

    • 3 years ago
  • DeathImmortal
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      DeathImmortal  
    • DeathImmortal:

      no the sandwich was in my head- it was backwards
      -and as to my "hate"? what hate? I said nothing of the sort of hate

      - All I did was ask a few questions.

      here's another one- Remember Freedom of speech?

      The majority of the liberals in power are in the top 2%- who's side are you on..My friend?

    • 3 years ago
  • anikhanj
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      anikhanj  
    • DeathImmortal:

      Top 2% of what? Salary? If so, stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.

      No one said you couldn't exercise your right to free speech, so stop twisting things. We just think that you make no sense.

      You republicans had your chance for 8 years and royally screwed things up. You have NO credentials. It's like having an auto mechanic try to fix your car after destroying 30 right before yours. Let the smart people try.

    • 3 years ago
  • Bren589
  • VaughnM
  • Gargaryun
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      Gargaryun  

    • Yes, it's a shame that He has to....but really, there is no "bigger fish" than restoring & repairing the damage done to constitutional rights.
      GO Mr. President, GO !

    • 3 years ago
  • aswift1
  • St_Alia_10191
  • clownpuncher
  • onechance
  • pakazak
  • FallenMorgan
  • nkeg87
  • onechance
  • bansheewail
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      bansheewail  

    • Change with which you can be charge with treason. Change for which you will be remembered historically. Change and then.....Change it back. It's a shame that Barack Obama has to "undo" the Constitutional harm that Bush has wrought. He's got bigger fish to fry.

    • 3 years ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • bansheewail:

      Of course it's going to be ugly. The entire reason for them wanting to keep every foul, heinous & infamous
      criminal policy secret for 8 years was to get away with it. I'm certain they figured that McSame would continue their devastation and make things even worse so that Bush & Co.(Piracy R US) wouldn't seem so bad in comparison.Obviously that gambit failed. In a Democracy there is no such thing as secret government because the rule of law demands that everyone must account to somebody. And the only reason for secrecy is to make things out of sight/out of mind so that crooks can get away without accounting. Power corrupts,and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The delusions of grandeur, obsession,and pathological lying that result comprise a profile of criminal insanity.Secret government is untimately only Organized Crime done under the color of lawful authority.The idea of Democracy means that the People rule. When they consent to be governed that gives their representatives permission to act in their name as Lincoln said. But they can't give their permission if they don't know what's going on. Hence the secrecy, the media mind control etc.to manipulate public ignorance. In the early 1970s Playboy magazine illustrated the pattern that has characterized Bush/Cheny when they characterized
      Nixon/Agnew in an article entitled: Howard Hughs, Richard Nixon and the CIA. The illustration said it all.
      A large,sweaty green arm representing BIG MONEY
      (the top 2%/BIG OIL/Major Corporations/Fed etc.) holding up the hand which was Hughs & the CIA. Nixon was only the Puppet glove that fit on the index finger of the Hand as a concession to direct things. The real Establishment supporting Nixon wasn't the People, and the Law. It was Big Business. How did Herbert Hoover put it ? "The business of this country IS Big Business" Like Roman emperor Nero,Hoover was in power duing the early days of the Great Depression (1928-1933) History usualy repeats itself.

    • 3 years ago
  • asherp
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