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Article from: Pretoria News (South Africa) Article date: November 04, 2008

Americans vote today in a presidential election which has enthralled the world like no other. The world wants to see the engaging Democratic candidate Barack Obama beat Republican John McCain to become the first black President of the United States and to improve its international relations, so horribly soured by the unilateralist and warmongering current George W Bush.

Obama always opposed America's hugely unpopular invasion of Iraq, has promised to pull US troops out of that country much faster than McCain would and is generally more inclined to negotiate with other ...

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Dems Find End Run Around Late Bush Regs

Posted Nov 12, 08 1:58 PM CST in Politics 

Dems Find End Run Around Late Bush Regs
Source: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

(Newser) – The Bush White House thought it was pretty clever rushing to get all its so-called midnight regulations finalized by Nov. 1 so they couldn't be immediately overturned by the next president, as many of Bill Clinton's parting gifts were. But congressional Democrats say they've found an obscure Clinton-era law that will allow them to strike down the rules anyway.

The Congressional Review Act of 1996 gives Congress the power to review and overturn any regulation finalized within 60 days of congressional adjournment, meaning a simple party-line vote could undo Bush’s policies. Better still for Dems, the move can’t be filibustered. Of course congressional actions are more ponderous than executive ones. One midnight-regulation researcher suggests that, to speed things along, Obama send Congress a bundled bill to strike every regulation he disapproves of.

Source: Politico

More about:  Barack Obama • George W. Bush • President Obama • Bush administration • Obama administration • Democratic Congress • midnight regulation

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White House Preps Crisis Scenarios for Obama Team

Bush administration strives to stop transition period becoming a security weak spot

New York Times New York Times Dec 17, 08 6:15 AM CST
(Newser) - The White House has drawn up more than a dozen contingency plans to help Barack Obama if a crisis erupts early in his presidency, the New York Times reports. The briefings go way beyond what other administrations have prepared and deal with potential threats ranging from a North Korean nuclear explosion to a terrorist attack on overseas US facilities to a cyberattack on US systems. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • George W. Bush • President Obama • Bush administration • Obama administration • transition • transition team • crisis management

OPINION

 Latest Rage-Reducer: WWOD? 

If Obama can forgive Lieberman, writer can forgive slapdash husband

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle Post-Intelligencer Dec 6, 08 9:02 AM CST
(Newser) - What would Obama do? Leslie Savan decided not to blast her husband for faulty dishwashing after asking herself this question, she writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , and she's not the only person she knows who's paused in moments of fury to consider the president-elect's level-headed ways. It's "more than a tad embarrassing," she admits, but certainly a contrast from the Bush years. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • George W. Bush • President Obama • Bush administration • Obama administration

OPINION

 'He Kept Us
 Safe': Noonan 

President has one argument to hang his hat on

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 08 9:20 AM CST
(Newser) - In the Republican social circles Peggy Noonan swims in, there is much grousing about George W. Bush. These days, however, it’s almost always followed by one sentence: “But he kept us safe.” It’s a meme destined to linger as the final argument for Bush. “There’s a rough justice with the American people,” writes Noonan. Through luck or design there have been no attacks, so Bush gets the credit, deserved or not. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • George W. Bush • President Obama • Bush administration • War on Terror • 9/11 attacks • Bush legacy


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