Thread: Midnight MADNESS! So Bush will leave something behind afterall.

Will Bush’s midnight rules be reversible?

Whether it’s relaxing pollution control standards for power plants or allowing loaded weapons into national parks, the Bush Administration is scrambling to approve or change as many federal rules as it can before it hands off power to President-elect Barack Obama.

Like I have said before, I have never been an ardent Bush supporter. While I still don't believe he has explicitely violated the constitution, this is fairly rediculous.

“The problem with what the Bush administration is doing is that these rules are extremely cumbersome to adopt, and they are every bit as cumbersome to undo,” said David Vladeck, an administrative law professor at Georgetown University. “It condemns the next administration to spend years fighting on the old administration’s agenda.”

While this is everybit constitutional, a level of professional discression is in order. Once a presidents time is up, it's up. This sort of cinderella policizing (I wonder how many words I can invent) seems to me to be the steriotype, cliche methode a president uses to overextend their authority and personal agenda.

To make sure the Bush administration’s rules would survive, White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten wrote a memo in May urging agency heads to publish all final rules in the federal register by November 1, so they would be in effect when the next administration took office. Despite Bolton’s prodding, however, many regulations are still under review at OMB and still more are being submitted.

So it looks like this will be the Bush legacy, a sledgepot of potentially crooked and ultra-partisan rules and Executive Orders. Maybe I'll try and be optimistic tonight and think that they'll all be benefical and wise. I kinda doubt it.

Originally Posted by Bones

Will Bush’s midnight rules be reversible?



Like I have said before, I have never been an ardent Bush supporter. While I still don't believe he has explicitely violated the constitution, this is fairly rediculous.



While this is everybit constitutional, a level of professional discression is in order. Once a presidents time is up, it's up. This sort of cinderella policizing (I wonder how many words I can invent) seems to me to be the steriotype, cliche methode a president uses to overextend their authority and personal agenda.



So it looks like this will be the Bush legacy, a sledgepot of potentially crooked and ultra-partisan rules and Executive Orders. Maybe I'll try and be optimistic tonight and think that they'll all be benefical and wise. I kinda doubt it.

I wonder if they will take all the "B"s and "O"s off the computer key boards?

This is a POLITICAL ploy, is what it is. This is those idiot Neo-Cons, wanting the Dems to go "on record" with this stuff.

'Cause you know for SURE, that Obama's gonna reverse every one of those things the minute he steps into the Oval Office - so, like, why bother?

Well, that's why. It's so he actually has to SIGN the order, and then the Reps can point back to it if anything goes wrong. So, the more orders you make the man sign, the greater chance there is of something going wrong.

See? I mean, this is STUPID stuff. This is what partisan politics has become in this country. It is DAMAGING to our political process!

This is exactly what I've been trying to point out to y'all - this partisan stuff has become a MENACE to the People of the United States!!!