To Implement Policy, Bush to Turn to Administrative Orders

Source: wpost


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103000558.html?hpid=sec-politics


To Implement Policy, Bush to Turn to Administrative Orders

By Michael Abramowitz and Jonathan Weisman

Wednesday, October 31, 2007; Page A03

The White House plans to try implementing as much new policy as it can by administrative order while stepping up its confrontational rhetoric with Congress after concluding that President Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership, administration officials said.

According to those officials, Bush and his advisers blame Democrats for the holdup of Judge Michael B. Mukasey's nomination to be attorney general, the failure to pass any of the 12 annual spending bills, and what they see as their refusal to involve the White House in any meaningful negotiations over the stalemated children's health-care legislation.

White House aides say the only way Bush seems to be able to influence the process is by vetoing legislation or by issuing administrative orders, as he has in recent weeks on veterans' health care, air-traffic congestion, protecting endangered fish and immigration. They say they expect Bush to issue more of such orders in the next several months, even as he speaks out on the need to limit spending and resist any tax increases.

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House Democratic leaders fired back at Bush with strong rhetoric of their own. "The president wants the same complacent, complicit Congress that was a co-conspirator in a coverup of what was going on in this country," said House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.)...........

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or especially protecting endangered fish and immigration? Anyone know what the hell they are talking about?

I guess *co wants the Dems. to roll over faster?! :wtf:

Ummm, yes it is. Come have a steaming hot bowl of Busholini.

Be afraid, be very afraid...

Why doesn't he just declare congress disbanded and himself as the king of all bushland and get it over with?

Put it together with this:

Bush Seeks to Rule The Bureaucracy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2474-2004Nov21?language=printer