POTUS Obama Halts Bush Rules and Regs

Thank you

And it’s on!

Hey!! I don’t have a clue what any of these memos will be about but if its Obama and not Bush its wonderful!!! YAY! I don’t understand history or politics or anything but YAY OBAMA!!
Please…he’s just another politician.

“Bush has gutted most of the civilian agencies of government, resulting in much LESS efficiency”
We the taxpayers have been paying private companies for this decreasing inefficiency.
More looting of the treasury by Bush to help his friends.

Ryan C- It’s good to see you back.

To all the negative naysayers. Keep up the doom and gloom. The pessimism. Stand aside and allow efficiency to take over and remember what your leader said:
“I think the country is so tired right now of a style of Republican attack politics that has become a caricature of itself, they instinctively go, ‘I’m tired of that,’ “It’s ineffective against Barack Obama right now. The country is faced with serious problems and is about to have a brand new president. You’d have to be irrational not to want the new president to succeed.”
- Newt Gingrich, a Republican and former speaker of the House

I love it when I’m correct! As usual. Everyone said that the executive orders and other documents that Obama was going to sign were “no big deal”. Just “simple statements” to allow for a national day of some platitudes and to get his cabinet in. But we see, just a sample, of the executive actions and methods by the new, alledged, President (his position’s legality is not assured but de facto). And they aren’t “day of reconciliation platitudes!

“So, let me get this right, Obama’s change means forcing medical staff to do abortions on his first day in office. Lovely.”
It is indeed lovely, Steven! Infantile religious beliefs have no business whatsoever in the doctor’s office – and any medical person attempting to inject them thusly should be fined and barred from the profession.

Steven Ertelt: Firstly he didn’t invalidate a thing. He instructed his staff not to implement any pending rules and regulations until the Obama administration could review them. Something every president does, even republicans. Secondly, you are wrong about the issue. Doctors always have the right to refuse to perform a procedure that goes against their religious belief. The issue at hand that Mr. Bush rushed through during his last, dark days, is that now your Walgreen’s cashier can refuse to ring up a purchase because they don’t like what your doctor perscribed. Better be careful. Today it’s Plan B, tomorrow it might be your viagra.

Eric Holder – Attorney General? Gregory Craig – White House Counsel? At least Obama is consistent – surrounding himself with America hating scumbags. It is sad that over half of the American voters have no clue about what they have done. When and if they wake up – I hope that it is not too late!!

Not everybody in the incoming administration is a savant and a competent administrator. Remember Paul Volker during Carter era? Volker was Carter’s nemesis (he could not get reelected for the second term) by raising the fed’s rates to the highest possible level and naturally interest rates zoomed to the sky. Any one with a little common sense should have known it. We can point out similar deficiencies in almost every incoming guy/gal. Let us not raise our hopes too high lest we will face disappointment. Wall street’s reaction today is an indicator that the business community does not expect too much in the near future from the new administration.

Rahm Emanuel’s the order to stop implementing any pending rules and regulations issued by the Bush administration sounds like similar
with almost N.Korea’s Kim, Jung Il order to “STOP STOP everything right now.” I do remember that Obama had promised with “a small Government with effective work”. However, Obama admin. already wasted money $150,000,000 for a few hours of the inauguration, today. It’s four times more than Bush’s one in 2004. I hope Obama admin never forget the promise.

The suspended Bush abortion regulation would have allowed the government to withhold or withdraw federal funding from recipients found to be coercing or discriminating against doctors or others who refuse to provide abortion services because of personal convictions. This does not mean that it encourages hospitals to discriminate against those who refuse to give abortions. It means that the government shouldn’t be policing hospitals to see if they are “coercing” doctors and then withholding federal funding.
I am a nurse, and I think it is morally wrong for someone who is a pharmacist to withhold a legal medication from a patient such as Plan B because it is “against the pharmacist’s conscience.” Similarly, hospitals are there to provide medical services, and if hospitals are forced to stop providing abortions in order to receive federal funding then the practical result is that there is no access to a legal medical procedure.
I have never heard of a doctor being forced to give an abortion. I cannot believe that “narumanchi” was ever “forced” to help with an abortion either. Give me a break – nurses are so in demand they can work wherever they want. Any nurse who would not provide post-operative care to some poor woman who has decided to have an abortion should not be a nurse. Even if you think abortion is a “crime,” I can’t believe any nurse would refuse to care for a criminal who was brought into the hospital with a gunshot wound. The whole premise is ridiculous and all the anti-abortion crowd wants is to force the federal government to permit hospitals receiving federal funding to deny healthcare to women who want an abortion and thereby eliminate access to abortions.

Oh no, Israel is in conflict with terrorists? Obama is in charge now, so he must be at fault… Oh no, the US is in a recession, well since Obama is in charge, it must be his fault… Hey, you know what, my property is worth less than the mortgage, I think Barry is to blame… Come to think of it, over the next coming months and not to exceed 4 years, I will blame Barry for everything… just like the left did to Bush…

It is amazing to me how many seem to lack ANY common sense in their posts. Many of you seem to be saying 1) If I were Pres I would just let any and everything done last minute that was trying to get pushed through in the last minute go EVEN THOUGH NOW THAT I AM PRES I AM RESPONSIBLE. and 2) How many of you cannot read and lack any form of comprehension when reading.
That is truly the sad part in all this because I really cannot understand how many of you seem to be taking this as reversing something when all it really is doing it putting a LEGITIMATE HOLD until the NEW President can see and read what HE now will be RESPONSIBLE for when it is passed into law.
Good god people, get real and learn to read…. and one other suggestion… get off your high horse because it is sickening..
Making your personal attacks is insulting to many Americans, including many Disabled Veterans like I am. It matters not whether one voted for President Obama, whether one likes him or not. What DOES matter is he IS our President. He IS an American and I WILL support and defend the choices he makes as the President as long as they conform to the constitution and common sense right and wrong. And that defense includes those who would slight my President from both foreign and domestic venues.
What DOES make me thankful today is that it is NOT the many of you who posted here who was just sworn in as President because then we truly would be doomed.

Obama is showing very poor judgement at the start of his administration!! Not a good way to start for someone who says he wants to build bipartisan support… Obama is all talk!!!!!!!

I am trying to keep upbeat about the new administration but Obama’s VP choice didnt think that Obama had the experience, and his secretary of state mocked him for 5 months with “celestial choir” type references. His cabinet is full of Washington insiders…how can we use the same old ideas in the same old way and somehow, expect a different result? (loosely taken from Obama’s speeches)

This will go down as is one of the worst days in history. The future of mankind has been doomed by the irrational voting public and the liberal media. How is government supposed to properly function and make the right decisions without the direct input and access by legitimate representatives of our benevelant and deeply caring major corporations? It just won’t work!

obama has alot of work to do, bush has all but destroyed america and the world so it willtake time dedication and money to repair…i just hope teh conservative kooks on teh right stay out of obamas way so he can do it i know republicans love seeing the world suffer(well poor and working people)but we true americans wont let the republithugs drag us down anymore.

Some believe this is the end of the world. All Obama is asking is that the agency heads who had no accountability during the Bush administration now stop until a full review is conducted including allowing input from the affected parties. It is not Armageddon. Bush’s cronies were doing more damage than good to the federal workforce.

and by the way, the worst day in history already happened, when Bush took over! How much worse can it get?

He is our leader and takes responsibility for our country and government. His administration must have time to understand and justify everything. He is doing his job as a leader. God bless Him and our Nation. God Bless all Americans and every nation around the world.

You mean the guy who promised change actually meant what he said. Damn – I thought he would just keep all those Bush regs and rules…

As a usurper, the Abomination is NOT the President, just a wannabe whose every ‘action’ is null and void!
Posted by: Richard Lawrence | Jan 21, 2009 10:33:50 AM
just wondering ,did you post the same (moronic) rant when gw bush and the republicans patently stole the florida electorate and thus the presidency? talk about usurping…

Steven Ertelt get it straight Controversial late rules by the outgoing Bush administration include allowing the carrying of concealed weapons in some national parks and prohibiting medical facilities from receiving federal money for discriminating against doctors and nurses who refuse to assist with abortions or dispense contraceptives based on religious grounds. But you people will choose and pick anything. We real American want America to succeed not to fail, but hell you can not let someone do thier job crap not even in office 1 day and look at you haters.. It is funny that pro lifers mind if a fetus is killed but have no problem with our American Soldiers being killed. You know they are someones child, sister/Brother, Husband or wife.

I agree with Malakie and Darwin. I feel people need to let go and think outside their comfort zone. Don’t judge Obama for awhile. Just relax, sit back and watch for a while. You’ll learn more, and if you’d stop jumping to conclusions, maybe you’ll be surprised. In the workplace, being a supervisor gives you a view that you don’t get as a regular worker. Why would the presidency be any different. He worked as a Senator. It’s a whole lot different to be the President. He needs to understand why Bush made the decisions he did. He may agree. He may not. But adjusting to his job will not be instantaneous no matter what anyone thinks. Remember too, he can’t MAKE the legislature agree. And there are some pretty stubborn “my way or the highway” attitude in both houses. The “new guy” needs time to create a new working relationship with the legislature and all things are not cleared through the legislature, so there will be rules, regs and other types of info that he needs time to review and learn. Being we’re all human, I’m sure information slipped through the cracks that maybe Obama should have gotten and didn’t get.
In any case, be a real American. He’s our President by our voting system, whether you voted for him or not. It’s time to move beyond Political party preferences and go to work to help America and Americans recover from all the crap that’s going on. The blame game helps no one but the idiot trying to get out of being a part of the solution. Do you want to be the stumbling block to healing and recovery or a part of the solution?

Oh, and Tom, as for your comment, “sit back and relax”, that is why this country is in the mess it is in today! Because we, as American’s, have sat on our butts and trusted that our government would do its job! The longer we sit back and relax the more our government will be taken advantage of! Our forefathers were geniuses! They thought everything through but they did not intend for “We the People” to just allow our government to function. We were to be part of the functioning of our government! But, we got busy with family, making a living, and we trusted those idiots that we sent to Washington to look out for our best interest! But now we are learning that they only look out for themselves and what their positions can do for them and their families. Our Constitution is being amended and revised so much so that our freedoms are dying! Now, you can sit back and relax if you want too, but I’m going to make sure that the guys I “hired” to do a job are damn well going to do their JOB!
Lynnl

LOL you republicans are so funny, John McCain and Palin would have run with the Place of Birth for Obama if it was an issue. In case you did not know it they comb though Obama’s past big time, and no issue. Birth certificate was posted for all to see, and the only place we see it used again is by the couch quarterbacks (YOU)

To all you hypocritical Bush bashers with the Obama blinders on. You are a waste of time to argue with. You never provide factual information or support your position. Always resorting to name calling, blaming, and typical talking points. You say we care about the unborn, but not the soldiers being killed…very hypocritical…you care about a soldier who volunteers knowing the risk of death is there. However, you kill an innocent unborn child who is incapable of volunteering. Like I said, blinders. Picking and choosing what matters to you with you basic principals. The hypocrisies are endless. You support the poor and middle class ha…then why do you support 4 and 5 dollar gas prices all in the name of the hoax you call Global Warming. How naive to think we are the cause! There again…provide some evidence(rather than name calling).

I can’t believe people are still trying to play the “natural born citizen” card again…. jeez, let it go already.
I bet he doesn’t take a vacation within a few weeks like GW did after his ingauration.

“Ill-informed?” Priceless. Just answer one question,, why would anyone fight so hard to conceal something if he doesn’t want it kept a secret? And no, his “original” has not been “seen,” “touched,” or otherwise examined. It is sealed. And you call us “Ill-informed?” HA!

Hey Alissa,
The question isn’t whether or not he’s a citizen, but whether or not he’s a Natural Born citizen. And rather than just accepting heresay and being “pretty sure” about all this, why don’t you do some independent research on the Constitution and on what the framers meant by “Natural Born”?
You’ll learn that there’s a significant difference between being a natural born citizen and just being a citizen. Look up Emmerich de Vattel’s “The Law of Nations”, a book heavily relied upon by the Founding Fathers – the definition is very clearly stated. You’ll see that if the father is not a citizen (a fact Obama admits freely about his father) the child is not a natural born citizen.
Look up the other writings of the Founding Fathers, and other laws and acts, such as the Naturalization Act of 1790, which stated, in part,
“the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens”. Interesting, but what is more telling is that the Naturalization Act of 1795 repealed the 1790 act, replacing the “natural born citizen” phrase with just “citizen”.
There is ample proof that the framers saw a real distinction between one who was born a citizen and one who was a “natural born” citizen, and they thought enough of this distinction, and of the presidency, to insist that the president possess this quality.
Our magnificent Constitution, and the brilliant people who crafted it, deserve our undying appreciation and respect. Without it/them, this country would not have endured, and would not be that place to which so many people from all over the globe want to come. We have the enjoyment of our freedoms because of the Constitution – if we want to continue to enjoy them, we must defend and preserve it, from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. It is, and must be, the supreme law of the land, regardless of what anyone says.
Please, consider carefully what you dismiss by just being “pretty sure” – many thousands of Americans have given their lives so that you and I can have this debate. Please respect their sacrifice enough actually to look into this issue seriously. I believe your eyes will be opened!

Being from Illinois, a state full of crooked politicans, Obama got elected because of the Chicago Political Machine.
If Obama has his liberal way…America might as well move next door to France.
Government needs to get smaller, like 25% the size it is now.
The Founding Fathers meant for it to be protecting our borders, post office, standard money and few other things. Leaving the rest to the states.
Washington DC is broken and does not look like it will be fixed any time soon.
How much more in taxes are you willing to give up?

All I’m saying is if he wasn’t eligible to be president he wouldn’t be…PERIOD…END OF STORY
I bet you guys think he’s an Arab too? And his great mission is to destroy this country…yesssssssss