Wow. Is this as big as I think it is? Obama halts ALL pending Bush regs until/unless they

[sohndrsmith]

are approved by him? Am I dreaming?

I'm not a political scholar but this seems HUGE. Is it?

"...no proposed or final regulation should be sent to the Office of Federal Register for publication unless and until it has been reviewed and approved by a department or agency head appointed or designated by the President after noon on January 20, 2009, or in the case of the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/20/obama-halts-all-pending-b_n_159546.html

[snowbear]

1. Sure sounds like a good move to me!

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I'm sure we'll hear plenty about it tomorrow! ~~

[TTUBatfan2008]

2. It is huge...

But I feel it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. I personally want him to follow through on this, I just don't know how he can do it properly without having potential terrorists being allowed to go free. I'm glad he's asking for 120 days. It gives him some time to come up with a plan.

[Lasher]

3. I heartily approve.

It would have been insane to have done otherwise.

[CATagious]

4. it's not big...

apparently it is SOP for incoming administrations.

[radfringe]

5. bush did the same thing in 2001 with Clinton's last minute regulations

although I recall know to what extent the bushies actually "reviewed" them or if they just threw them all in the trash

[orleans]

7. they didn't review anything

they were too busy fucking up the buildings and blaming clinton's team

[treestar]

6. Even if routine, in this particular case it's huge

Because anything the Chimp was going to do was probably wrong or evil - the bastards easily saw that to mess was regulations was the easy path to autocracy (or Deciding, as the Decider so termed it).