{"id":2614,"date":"2008-11-09T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T12:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2008-11-09T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T13:20:10","slug":"pinch-me-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/09\/pinch-me-again\/","title":{"rendered":"an effort to extend his legacy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/11\/8\/181219\/276\/317\/657700\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Our long national nightmare is over<\/strong><\/a>  <\/div>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\"> by <strong><font color=\"#ff9900\">SusanG<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">The great undoing has begun:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/08\/AR2008110801856.html?nav=rss_email\/components\"><strong>Obama Positions Himself to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions on Environmental, Social Issues<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">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 the president on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">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. The team is now consulting with liberal advocacy groups, Capitol Hill staffers and potential agency chiefs to prioritize those they regard as the most onerous or ideologically offensive, said a top transition official who was not permitted to speak on the record about the inner workings of the transition. <\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">The article specifically states that Obama administration officials will look most particularly at measures that were imposed for &quot;overtly political&quot; reasons. And all those last minute deregulation binges we&#8217;ve been hearing about the last few days? The ones mostly crapping on the environment? Today&#8217;s article clarifies:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#200020\"><strong>The list of executive orders targeted by Obama&#8217;s team could well get longer in the coming days, as Bush&#8217;s appointees are rushing to enact a number of last-minute policies in an effort to extend his legacy.<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">Elections, my friends, have consequences.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">In a fundamental way, this nightmare will not be over for a long time. But in the way&nbsp; <strong><font color=\"#ff9900\">SusanG<\/font><\/strong> describes it, will be over soon. Usually, a new President comes into office with an agenda of things to <strong>do<\/strong>. Obama has a short term agenda of things to <strong>undo<\/strong>. This is the part that I still can&#8217;t get my mind around &#8211; that the active destructiveness of the Bush Administration might actually be be undoable or even undone. The last eight years have so ground down my personal sense of the American Agenda that it seems like a fantasy movie. The notion that it can be reversed feels like curing cancer. <font color=\"#200020\"><strong>So, pinch me again<\/strong><\/font>&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our long national nightmare is over by SusanG The great undoing has begun: Obama Positions Himself to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions on Environmental, Social Issues 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 the president on climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}