George Bush plans to push through agenda in last days in office

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3386968/George-Bush-plans-to-push-through-agenda-in-last-days-in-office.html


President George W Bush is planning to push through a series of potentially unpopular regulation changes in his final weeks in office.


Democrats fear the president will try to ram through new rules on the environment, civil liberties and abortion rights before December 20, the deadline for changes before the new president is inaugurated a month later. The alterations could take months or years to undo.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey has already rushed out new guidelines for the FBI that make domestic surveillance easier, including the use of informants to infiltrate lawful groups and prolonged physical surveillance.

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Michael Leavitt, the secretary of health and human services, is believed to be planning to extend the right of doctors and nurses to refuse to participate in abortions to a wider range of health care workers. The right to refuse the provision of the birth control pill, emergency contraception and abortion referrals may also be added.

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He has also created a transition commission of senior national security and economic aides who will be giving their designated successors briefings or running them through exercises to simulate responses to natural disasters or terrorist attacks.
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I hate the neo cons

[meegbear]

1. Play your last card you fuck!

Soon you'll be just a bad, bad memory.

[droidamus2]

2. Bring it to a stop

I think with the election results if necessary the Democrats should just bring the government to a standstill as far as new legislation or 'rules' from the executive branch. Anywhere and everywhere they can they should put obstacles in Bushes way. I realize they won't be able to stop everything but at least they can slow Bush down.

[LiberalEsto]

4. Maybe they can filibuster? nt

[aquart]

5. This isn't legislation.

I'm beginning to favor a constitutional amendment that changes the locks on the White House the day after the election.

[aquart]

3. First day of new administration? Rescind all Bush orders. ALL.

Nobody is going to give me that, are they?

Or put his criminal ass in jail?

I wish him piles, boils, hives, shingles, constipation, psoriasis, cold sores, heartburn, itch, post nasal drip, heel spurs. I want that flaming asshole to have a flaming asshole.

[librechik]

7. yes, but Bush knows that ain't so easy--public hearings have to be held

(which they have been furiously doing for the last coupe of years, because they KNEW they were going to do this)

There are other roadblocks to repeal that Bush lawyers have cunningly written in--remember that crap where they declared no court could have jurisdiction over some of Bush's edicts? That's just a sample.

We know these bastards are reps of the devil because there are so many crooked lawyers among them

[Hubert Flottz]

6. This is why Nancy needs to Impeach Bush ASAP.

[paparush]

8. And he's trying to restrict, in a big way, product liability lawsuits.