See? He really IS the regulation President...

The amount of bullshiat policiesgiveaways BushCo has been pushing through over the past month or two is astounding and may take years to reverse. I sincerely hope the man is eventually tarred and feathered.

what a dick.

The changes, which will go into effect in about 30 days, were completed in just four months. But they could take Obama much longer to reverse.


Everything that asshat has been up to for the past six months has been designed be all but impossible to reverse.

I wonder if there's someone on Obama's transition team whose sole purpose is to maintain a list of Bush's last minute policies for the new administration to reverse.

I bet he/she has a raging case of carpal tunnel.

Not only that, but:

They will eliminate some of the mandatory, independent reviews that government scientists have performed for 35 years on dams, power plants, timber sales and other projects, a step that developers and other federal agencies have blamed for delays and cost increases.

awfulperson: I wonder if there's someone on Obama's transition team whose sole purpose is to maintain a list of Bush's last minute policies for the new administration to reverse.

I bet he/she has a raging case of carpal tunnel.

The policies will be reversible, but will take time to implement, and BushCo is counting on the Obama Administration to have a lot on their minds, other than reversing every shred of the changes--and counting on the Obama Administration to NOT use signing statements with the same abandon that Bush has.

It only goes to prove what a petulant little turd that this Administration has become.

Obdicut: Not only that, but:

They will eliminate some of the mandatory, independent reviews that government scientists have performed for 35 years on dams, power plants, timber sales and other projects, a step that developers and other federal agencies have blamed for delays and cost increases.

See, that's regulation!

Unfortunately, it typifies the sort of regulation the Bush Administration has favored...

Obdicut: Not only that, but:

They will eliminate some of the mandatory, independent reviews that government scientists have performed for 35 years on dams, power plants, timber sales and other projects, a step that developers and other federal agencies have blamed for delays and cost increases.

If it's been going on for 35 years and you aren't smart enough to build that into the bid then the failure is yours Mr. Businessman.

awfulperson: I wonder if there's someone on Obama's transition team whose sole purpose is to maintain a list of Bush's last minute policies for the new administration to reverse.

I bet he/she has a raging case of carpal tunnel.

yes
obama has a team reviewing every single executive order
you can look forward to obama issuing some exec-orders himself
soon after being sworn in
for example: one reversing the ban on stem-cell research and one reversing the gagorder on aid workers in foreign countries talking about CONDOMS ..... ooooooo

sigh
every prez does it, sneaks in the those exec orders last min ...
all the things that they could NOT get passed into law, made this will work .... sigh

techincally, all obama has to do is pass an executive order saying the reverse
techincally

/sigh - hates them all

I hate this man walking, smirking pile of shiat so much.

Hopefully, with the news that Obama has a team of people working on pouring over the last minute decisions, executive statements, and everything else, he'll walk in to the oval office on January 21st with a nice stack of papers already prepared, sitting on his desk and ready to be signed, so that we can begin to scrub away the taint that Bush and his ilk has left on everything they've touched. Having an omnibus bill, ready to immediately hand off to some of his colleagues in congress, that reversed some of the more egregious errors of the past 8 years would be a nice touch as well.

ryebread: executive statements executive orders and signing statements

FTFM

It's not just the endangered species act he is weakening, he is gutting lots of environmental laws right before he leaves office. He seems to be going with the scorched Earth policy of President Clark at the end of season 4 of Babylon 5. Where's the Alliance to save us?

Coronach: Everything that asshat has been up to for the past six months has been designed be all but impossible to reverse.

Six months? Try eight years. We'll never be rid of the PATRIOT Act and the Department of Homeland Security.

He honestly doesn't give a f*ck. He is already known as a horrible president, so he really doesn't care what else he does that makes him look bad.

He probably thinks the title of President is a joke.

Obdicut: Not only that, but:

They will eliminate some of the mandatory, independent reviews that government scientists have performed for 35 years on dams, power plants, timber sales and other projects, a step that developers and other federal agencies have blamed for delays and cost increases.

You do know that this is for his oil buddies to be able to set up shop without being stopped by concerns for wildlife.

WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER.

If you voted for George Bush, ever, please GTFO of America. You're not an American, you're a TARD.

You guys have Bush all wrong, he's just a free market environmentalist. Let the animals fend for themselves, and the strongest, most efficient animals will prosper. Then, when it appears that several animals we can't live without are about to go extinct, he'll suggest we enact a bailout to protect them that will prolong their existence for another few months before they go extinct, with the human race soon to follow. Economics 101 libtards!

Suck it, libs.

Save a tree.

Cut down a republican.

Rank-and-file workers in government regulatory agencies should just ignore these sorts of edicts.

How do these laws or adjustment in laws get passed without congressional approval? And if not, then why would it potentially take years for Obama to fix them?

SO glad I joined the Sierra Club last week.

george, you are truly a sickening being and a disgrace to the human species. Farking choke already.

I personally can't wait for my bald eagle omelets..

Good.

You pro-evolution ranters sure have to see it in action.

Walker: It's not just the endangered species act he is weakening, he is gutting lots of environmental laws right before he leaves office. He seems to be going with the scorched Earth policy of President Clark at the end of season 4 of Babylon 5. Where's the Alliance to save us?

Yes, Bush is Clark. And Obama is Sheridan, right? No wait, he's greater. He's Valen. Gotta keep that light/dark, evil/good duality going.

Anyway, this is one thing I'll be glad about when Bush is gone. Bush never really sold or justified his actions much. He was simply The Decider. He decides and we have to trust him.

Obama is extremely shrewd. He knows everything must be explained and sold to the public. (I disagree with his policies, but he's smart enough to know how to sell them).

It may be that Bush rightly undid red-tape regulations. The kind that feed bureaucracy, limit progress, and don't really solve the goal they were intended for. (Yes, environmentalist policies are chuck full of them. Don't think that revoking an environmental policy is always bad.) But since this is Bush, the only way we'd know is to search government PDFs and hope the reasoning is given somewhere a few hundred pages in.

AgentOrangeDrink: You guys have Bush all wrong, he's just a free market environmentalist. Let the animals fend for themselves, and the strongest, most efficient animals will prosper. Then, when it appears that several animals we can't live without are about to go extinct, he'll suggest we enact a bailout to protect them that will prolong their existence for another few months before they go extinct, with the human race soon to follow. Economics 101 libtards!

I chuckled...

NYZooMan: Good.

You pro-evolution ranters sure have to see it in action.

Pssst. Here's a hint so you don't look quite so silly next time: it's difficult for species to evolve if the pressure (even if it is selective) is so much that they go extinct.

Ooo, Oooo, is it the Bald Eagle? Is it? Is it? Cuz I really want a Bald Eagle drumstick.

/mmmm...tastes like freedom

Environmentalism is the BDSM-ballgag that silences Industry's angelic siren-song.

While we're out wringing our hands over whether harvesting oil shale hurts orca and baby seals, China and Venezuela are dominating the market by slaughtering every living creature that holds them back. It's not fair.

I wish some of you "Earth"-Firsters would just step back and see the world from an oilman's perspective. Who knows more about business than a business man. Who will tell you more about what's necessary for industrial predominance, a hippy or a Captain of Industry? No trees for profit loss. It's about priorities, and our corporations PLAY TO WIN!

The guy at the end of the thread:

So what you're saying is, let's destroy our life support system because it's profitable?

1/10 for believability.

ole' george and his 'bring em on' approach. hey george, how's your war doing these days? lol

Damnhippyfreak:

Pssst. Here's a hint so you don't look quite so silly next time: it's difficult for species to evolve if the pressure (even if it is selective) is so much that they go extinct.

Pssst. Here's a better hint. Notice how everyone except you ignored his troll? That's because we have him on /ignore. And when people like you Quote him, we have no choice but to put YOU on /ignore as well.

Corpus Delecti: Damnhippyfreak:

Pssst. Here's a hint so you don't look quite so silly next time: it's difficult for species to evolve if the pressure (even if it is selective) is so much that they go extinct.

Pssst. Here's a better hint. Notice how everyone except you ignored his troll? That's because we have him on /ignore. And when people like you Quote him, we have no choice but to put YOU on /ignore as well.


Whoops. Sorry. I don't put anyone on ignore, and I'm not about to start ignoring people outright. So it's probably better that you put me on ignore right now, just for safety's sake. We wouldn't want you to burn your retinas or anything.

The nice thing about the Internet is it exposes these things more quickly than it did in the past. Obama could conceivably reverse all of these immediately after being sworn in on already-prepared orders and policies. If there is any politician able to hit the ground running, it's Obama and the team around him.

Even if they run in the wrong directions sometimes...

namatad: techincally, all obama has to do is pass an executive order saying the reverse
techincally

That's not true here, technically or otherwise. This EPA reg is not an executive order, it is a regulation from the agency (note, the article says that this is a product of the Bush Administration, not just Bush).

Because this is an agency regulation they have to go through full notice-&-comment rule making. That means that first they have to submit a notice of proposed rulemaking. These NPRs are often hundreds of pages with sometimes thousands of pages of supporting texts, and usually have to incorporate everything that the agency knows about a problem. Then they have to open the agency up to comments for a period of time. Then they have to answer EVERY SINGLE substantive comment that is submitted to the agency, and publish those answers along with their new rule, as well as an analysis of all the information they relied on and any new information that came to light as a product of the comment period.

Then of course, some people who don't like the new regs might be able to sue. . .

The system isn't really bad, its an important check to make sure agencies, which often don't have much in the way of oversight, don't go off half cocked and make crazy rules without any support in law or fact. Bush is exploiting this safeguard to make sure his regulations stay in place well beyond their reasonable natural life.

So yes, Obama can undo this, but he cannot undo it quickly.

This is their last hurrah, so they're going balls out. The GOP will from here on out be an impotent regional party.

He probably thinks since everyone hates him already he might as well make sure he takes care of his oil buddies on his way out.

Worst. President. Ever.

came for the hissy fits, am not disappointed... Thanks for the laughs girls.

The guy at the end of the thread: Environmentalism is the BDSM-ballgag that silences Industry's angelic siren-song.

While we're out wringing our hands over whether harvesting oil shale hurts orca and baby seals, China and Venezuela are dominating the market by slaughtering every living creature that holds them back. It's not fair.

I wish some of you "Earth"-Firsters would just step back and see the world from an oilman's perspective. Who knows more about business than a business man. Who will tell you more about what's necessary for industrial predominance, a hippy or a Captain of Industry? No trees for profit loss. It's about priorities, and our corporations PLAY TO WIN!

I've seen the world from an oilman's perspective. I call it 2001-2008. I'd like to look at things from some other perspective now.

Bush is just giving everybody a parting gift.

Perhaps I'll have to shiat on his grave, too.

I punched a republican in the face last night.

It felt good.

The guy at the end of the thread: Environmentalism is the BDSM-ballgag that silences Industry's angelic siren-song.

While we're out wringing our hands over whether harvesting oil shale hurts orca and baby seals, China and Venezuela are dominating the market by slaughtering every living creature that holds them back. It's not fair.

I wish some of you "Earth"-Firsters would just step back and see the world from an oilman's perspective. Who knows more about business than a business man. Who will tell you more about what's necessary for industrial predominance, a hippy or a Captain of Industry? No trees for profit loss. It's about priorities, and our corporations PLAY TO WIN!

Obvious troll is obvious.

Gosling:

I've seen the world from an oilman's perspective. I call it 2001-2008. I'd like to look at things from some other perspective now.


Good point.

Lionel Mandrake: what a dick Cheney.

FTFY

Obdicut: Not only that, but:

They will eliminate some of the mandatory, independent reviews that government scientists have performed for 35 years on dams, power plants, timber sales and other projects, a step that developers and other federal agencies have blamed for delays and cost increases.

Why does Bush hate America so much?

ryebread: I hate this man walking, smirking pile of shiat so much.

Hopefully, with the news that Obama has a team of people working on pouring over the last minute decisions, executive statements, and everything else, he'll walk in to the oval office on January 21st with a nice stack of papers already prepared, sitting on his desk and ready to be signed, so that we can begin to scrub away the taint that Bush and his ilk has left on everything they've touched. Having an omnibus bill, ready to immediately hand off to some of his colleagues in congress, that reversed some of the more egregious errors of the past 8 years would be a nice touch as well.

I'm surprised that Obama hasn't already said that his first year will be solely committed to reversing the Bush administration's policies. There's alot that needs changed in my opinion.

AgentOrangeDrink: Let the animals fend for themselves, and the strongest, most efficient animals will prosper.

And that would be... Humans. Most other animals will go extinct eventually. And yes, with humans to follow. Unless we find a way off this planet.

I like this story only because it makes the lefties so mad. It's so fun to watch them wet themselves in their vitriolic anger.