eatable politics #90: In which Obama promptly proves me wrong about him not taking action
-White House photo by Pete Souza-
From Politico.com a few minutes ago:
“President-elect Barack Obama is expected to move swiftly to reverse executive orders regarding torture of terror suspects, the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and other controversial security policies, sources close to his transition said, in dramatic gestures aimed at reversing President Bush’s accumulation of executive power.
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) said he’s been informed that President Obama will support his proposed legislation to make public some opinions from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which issued some of the Bush Administration’s most sweeping claims of executive power. Obama also has promised to limit President Bush’s practice of using “signing statements” to amend legislation.
“I don’t know in what order or how fast” Obama’s executive orders could come, Feingold said. “It’ll be important that a couple of them be done immediately, and I think they will be, to show there’s a strong break from the current policy.”
Hear that noise? That’s the sound me eating crow.