Any defenders of Executive Orders out there?

So we hear that bush is pulling a bunch of executive orders on his way out. I'm sure clinton did a bunch, too.

How are Executive orders a good idea? Sure, Obama could undo them once he's in there, but what about those that happen mid term?

What instances would require an Executive order? Just anything? Or should there be limits? Life or death matters of national security and the like.

I'm sorry but I think bush and crew have over stepped and abused their power and I would just as soon we put a stop to that kind of sh_t from here on out. I dont completely agree with ANY political party, and I'm sure there are many like me, so I'd rather these party bots didn't use these unAmerican "Executive Orders" to shove a partisan agenda down our throats.

Any defenders of Executive Orders out there?

I'm a big fan of Executive Orders.

Anything to get around the current crop of farking lint licker douchefarks in Congress is a good idea.

I'm a big fan of Executive Orders.

Anything to get around the current crop of farking lint licker douchefarks in Congress is a good idea.

So we hear that bush is pulling a bunch of executive orders on his way out. I'm sure clinton did a bunch, too.

How are Executive orders a good idea? Sure, Obama could undo them once he's in there, but what about those that happen mid term?

What instances would require an Executive order? Just anything? Or should there be limits? Life or death matters of national security and the like.

I'm sorry but I think bush and crew have over stepped and abused their power and I would just as soon we put a stop to that kind of sh_t from here on out. I dont completely agree with ANY political party, and I'm sure there are many like me, so I'd rather these party bots didn't use these unAmerican "Executive Orders" to shove a partisan agenda down our throats.

Any defenders of Executive Orders out there?

To make up for losing the recent referendum for change in the nation's governance, the losers have come up with a snappy comeback: a coup.

Well, sort of a coup. The outgoing Bush administration is spiking the bureaucracy with political appointees who, through the miracle of executive fiat, have suddenly been transformed into civil servants.

As political operatives in the government's sundry bureaus, agencies and whatnot, they could have been chucked unceremoniously, and no doubt would have been, by the Obama administration. With the shape-shifters covered by Civil Service job protections, removing them will be as tough, and just about as much fun, as digging out ingrown toenails.

This process is not unknown. It has been around long enough to earn its own nickname - burrowing. But in the past it has been used mainly as a patronage hustle, a way to reward loyalists, not to thwart an incoming administration by confronting it with in-house opponents to the very policies on which the new president campaigned.

The Washington Post, which has been keeping track, has found high-level switches in the Labor and Interior departments, in the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service, often involving personnel with records of overriding professional judgments with ideological purposes.

The burrowing is part of the Bush administration's high-energy effort to use executive orders and other preemptive instruments to get in last-minute policy licks, especially against environmental protection. Typical winner: mountaintop strip mining. Typical loser: endangered species.

President Bush is getting high marks for the grace and openness with which he is greeting President-elect Obama, and rightly so. But once again, we find that Bush is just a covering glad hand for the strong-arm administration behind it.

Every exec order can be undone by the next prez. I trust they mostly will.

Things change. Really. Over time. Even politics.

Just what Clinton said. Too bad the lefties all seem to have slept through the Clinton presidency.