Obama to reverse Bush Executive Orders
Obama plans immediate overhaul of Bush legacy
Barack Obama is heading for a confrontation with President Bush over stem cell research.
The president-elect is today making his first trip to the White House since his election victory.
And aides are predicting a strained meeting between the two men as Mr Obama sets out his transition plan to wipe out some of Mr Bush’s most personal initiatives.
Stem cell research tops a list of around 200 changes being planned by Mr Obama that mark a swift unravelling of the unpopular Republican president’s eight-year legacy.
The president-elect has made overturning Mr Bush’s controversial limit on government spending for embryonic stem cell research a priority for his fledgling administration.
Because the measures were not acts of Congress but executive orders made by the president, they can just as easily be changed by a directive from his successor.
What? Office of the President Elect? When did Congress or the Constitution establish that office?
Among other Bush policies that could be quickly reversed are a block on regulating carbon dioxide fumes from cars and a ban on international family planning groups receiving US aid from counselling women about the availability of abortion.
A move to free up government cash for stem cell research will delight scientists who complained the Bush regime stymied promising avenues for defeating a wide range of diseases, such as Parkinson’s.
Stem cells can be used to treat a wide range of diseases, although some quarters claim moral issues with their use. But it will infuriate Christian conservatives who are morally opposed to the use of cells from days-old human embryos.
As Michelle Obama gets a tour of her new home, Mr Obama, 47, is also expected to urge Mr Bush, who remains in office until the new president’s inauguration on January 20, to bail out cash-strapped General Motors, the American car giant that owns Vauxhall plants in Luton and Cheshire.
GM says it’s on the brink of collapse and will run out of money in three months if it doesn’t get any aid from the US government.Mr Obama is expected to argue that if Mr Bush, 62, refuses to help, then he will act as soon as he takes over.
By Executive Order Obama can force us all to finance farming of embryos for medical research. Hell, aborting your baby is patriotic now, that human life mommies treat like a hard turd will be farmed on a large scale basis to save lives. Remember, it is for the children!
Anyone thinking Obama will rule from the center is an idiot!
