Obama’s site, “change.gov” is already down and out.
“under construction”.  Must be he wants to continue to downplay his very high expectations of his promised policies that he had listed there as he did during his acceptance speech when professing “promises” might not happen even “during a 1st term.” (hint hint.)

Unfortunatley for him, he is going to be scrutinized on every little move he makes.

The press should lay-off somewhat and wait for him to get there first.  Then we’ll see.

Cyrena:

From your mouth to Obama’s ear!  LOL.  He built his campaign on the slogan, “hope.”  So let’s “hope” he really lives up to his rhetoric.  I am cautiously optimistic!

Peace.

This is the post to handle this comment.

And here is what congress is up to, our democrat led congress that is ‘supposed’ to do so much for the people. Actually this a comment from another post at this site:

By samosamo, November 8 at 5:47 pm #

I don’t know if this is a post to comment here about this, but since the election on Tuesday the democrats have shown nothing but neocon BS to the people. Now the democrats want the bailout to help the american auto industry, not the people who traitor pelosi demanded to be helped and not have to pay for any of the bailout in her ‘acting’ speech to vote down the first bailout vote. So, here fresh from a lot of you people’s least favorite msm site, msnbc, is the blue dogs(republicans in democrat clothes) wanting to ‘aid’ not just the financial sector that played a BIG hand in bring us the current financial crisis but now include the failing american auto industry for their complicity in this economic failure the WE the taxpayer is going to pay for out of OUR pockets. And they want it done before w & dick are out of office, IF they decide to give it up on 1.20.2009.
Here’s the link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27607725/

Read it and weep! ANY MORE PROOF OF THE INFINITESIMALLY SMALL DIFFERENCE OF A REPUBLICAN AND A DEMOCRAT, OR THE INFINITESIMALLY LARGE SIMILARITY OF A REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT???!!!!!
Expect more of the same shit and an even closer political and corporate coziness for THEIR benefits. Just the thing I thought that by electing someone other than a republican as president or congressional rep. or sen. would end but NO, it shit still gets deeper.

For what it is worth, good for obama if he reverses w & dick’s distastrous decisions to subvert the democracy of our republic then hopefully obama will be so kind as to have the w & dick cabal arrested for their crimes. This goes with Maani’s comment in another post at this site where he states that going back to 9-11 and investigate the attack to answer questions and mysteries that would begin to bring a sense of truth to what has happened in and to our country from January 20, 2000 to present.
But again to obama and including congress, there needs to be a whole heap of economic accountability of the financial sector that has subverted and ignored all laws that should have prevented the GRAND LARCENY of our economy for the benefit of a few at the expense of the people. Good for obama if he does what will help the country and not a bunch of free loading robber barrons. And here is a definite article found at msnbc that is the classic of what we the people DO NOT WANT:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27597955/

This is our corporations already dictating to obama how he will run the country for their benefit. Even threatens that is will stiffle growth and job creation. I mean, WHAT GROWTH? And WHAT JOBS? We are allowing congress to placate the corporations and especially the ones responsible for the economic debacle they created to be rewarded by their irresponsible and criminal actions to screw our economy up to where will the growth come from and where will it go? How asinine? How hypocritical! And the jobs have been long gone. Guess the most meaningful employment now is flipping burgers at macdonald’s or greeting people at wal-mart, yeah, that will be the ‘good’ jobs for us serfs for our lords.

I’m absolutely delighted by this!! (as any self-respecting scholar of Law & Society should be);)

Maani,

My interpretation is that the ‘review’ of the Dick Bush regime Executive Orders most certainly INCLUDES those multiple signing statements.(From, an academic view, they are sometimes recognized as being the same thing).

A suggestion from a colleague many months ago was that ALL Executive Orders and ALL of the signing statements should be widely publicized, (though it’s unknown how many Americans would really care or be interested…obviously the crowd here is, but I can’t speak for all) just so that US Citizens can know what the hell has been going on behind the curtain for however long. (my colleague wants to go back at least a few decades on these Signing Statements, since they are NOT recorded in the same way as Executive Orders. (In fact, the term ‘secret’ seems to apply to signing statements, despite how undemocratic and unconstitutional that is).

So, I think it’s all gonna come out, and I’m tickled pink about it.

Bush needs to be arrested by the International Criminal Court and tried and convicted for war crimes at the Hague.
Now the filthy little sob is trying to gut remaining environmental regulation just when we need them most because of the likes of him.
Thank God for Barack and I fervently hope Bush’s cowardly, criminal ass burns in hell forever.

TO:........ yours truly, November 9 at 2:08 pm

Thank You.

Yours Truly,
GrammaConcept

So Obama will review Bush’s executive orders (good), but may issue some of his own (?).  This begs a question: what about Bush’s signing statements, and the riders he added to bills that helped eviscerate existing Constitutional protections, freedoms and civil liberties and/or centralize power in the executive branch?

The Times Magazine has an excellent cover article on this truly critical issue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/magazine/09power-t.html?pagewanted=print

And there is also this, from the political blog called MB-Civic:

http://www.michaelbutler.com/blog/civic/2008/11/09/original-mb-civic-opinion-piece/

Peace.

President Obama has a site…..change.gov….And I think Obama should negate MOST of bullsh*ts executive orders….After All….What good ideas could come from a cheer leader????