Comments on: Good http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:47:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Will http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138121 Will Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:55:52 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138121 Liberal Policy Yes we can. Far Left Fantasy Yes we can. Co-opted Clinton policies Yes we can. Far Left Fantasy Yes we can. You’re being hypnotized, Yes we can. By a sixteen year media smear campaign, Yes we can. Run by corporations that hate the Clintons, Yes we can. For raising taxes slightly on the very rich, Yes we can. And daring to pass laws on behalf of minorities, Yes we can. And to help the middle class, Yes we can. Instead of just stockholders. Yes we can. We’re loosing the greatest policy experts of our time. Yes we can. If they can’t have another puppet, Yes we can. The corporations will settle for someone weak and naïve, Yes we can. Which is why they endorse Obama. Yes we can. Liberal Policy
Yes we can.
Far Left Fantasy
Yes we can.
Co-opted Clinton policies
Yes we can.
Far Left Fantasy
Yes we can.
You’re being hypnotized,
Yes we can.
By a sixteen year media smear campaign,
Yes we can.
Run by corporations that hate the Clintons,
Yes we can.
For raising taxes slightly on the very rich,
Yes we can.
And daring to pass laws on behalf of minorities,
Yes we can.
And to help the middle class,
Yes we can.
Instead of just stockholders.
Yes we can.
We’re loosing the greatest policy experts of our time.
Yes we can.
If they can’t have another puppet,
Yes we can.
The corporations will settle for someone weak and naïve,
Yes we can.
Which is why they endorse Obama.
Yes we can.

]]> By: Mold http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138109 Mold Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:26:31 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138109 You'd think the pols would read polls. Bush is totally toilet and the easiest way to get elected is to trash his legacy. Are these folks too into the DC cocktail circuit to see this? I'm only a wee elected person and I could see the benefits to sailing as far away from Bush as possible. You’d think the pols would read polls. Bush is totally toilet and the easiest way to get elected is to trash his legacy. Are these folks too into the DC cocktail circuit to see this? I’m only a wee elected person and I could see the benefits to sailing as far away from Bush as possible.

]]> By: k http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138078 k Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:14:48 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138078 Wasn't it the Boston Globe that had all the info on the signing statements? Whichever paper, they could just print up copies of their research. Easy peazy. Wasn’t it the Boston Globe that had all the info on the signing statements? Whichever paper, they could just print up copies of their research. Easy peazy.

]]> By: snuzy mandrake http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138070 snuzy mandrake Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:01:21 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138070 <i>They are not law and may be amended or rescinded by any subsequent executive order</i> no, executive orders are law, although they are "weaker" in force than a constitutional provision or statute. any EO that is contrary to the constitution or a statute is not valid. which means that a lot of bush's EOs are probably invalid anyway. but until a court rules them invalid they will be enforced and can do a lot of damage. on the other hand, ron is right that EOs can be overruled by subsequent EOs. <i>Trouble is where you gonna find copies of all those signin’ statements and EO’s. </i> the EOs are reported in the federal register. you can look them up now. just start with the january 2001 volume and work forward from there. there can be secret EOs that are not reported because they are classified. but any future president would have access to them. besides, EOs are an order of the president to the executive branch bureaucracy to take certain actions. if no one in the oval office can find the order, the order won't go out to the newly appointed federal bureaucracy to enforce what they say. They are not law and may be amended or rescinded by any subsequent executive order

no, executive orders are law, although they are “weaker” in force than a constitutional provision or statute. any EO that is contrary to the constitution or a statute is not valid. which means that a lot of bush’s EOs are probably invalid anyway. but until a court rules them invalid they will be enforced and can do a lot of damage. on the other hand, ron is right that EOs can be overruled by subsequent EOs.

Trouble is where you gonna find copies of all those signin’ statements and EO’s.

the EOs are reported in the federal register. you can look them up now. just start with the january 2001 volume and work forward from there.

there can be secret EOs that are not reported because they are classified. but any future president would have access to them. besides, EOs are an order of the president to the executive branch bureaucracy to take certain actions. if no one in the oval office can find the order, the order won’t go out to the newly appointed federal bureaucracy to enforce what they say.

]]> By: Izquierdo http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138046 Izquierdo Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:43:35 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138046 Finally -- a substantive and significant campaign promise. Finally —
a substantive and significant campaign promise.

]]> By: Raoul Paste http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138042 Raoul Paste Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:09:05 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138042 'reviewing every executive order...' Now yer' talkin. Bring it on. ‘reviewing every executive order…’

Now yer’ talkin. Bring it on.

]]> By: Ron http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138041 Ron Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:00:07 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138041 Executive Orders are Executive Branch policy. They are not law and may be amended or rescinded by any subsequent executive order. Trouble is where you gonna find copies of all those signin' statements and EO's. BushCo's attack on america has been so widespread and exhaustive, whoever the next president is, they're going to need to rebuild the morale of the entire executive branch just to start. Can you say Office of Constitutional Restoration? Executive Orders are Executive Branch policy. They are not law and may be amended or rescinded by any subsequent executive order. Trouble is where you gonna find copies of all those signin’ statements and EO’s. BushCo’s attack on america has been so widespread and exhaustive, whoever the next president is, they’re going to need to rebuild the morale of the entire executive branch just to start. Can you say Office of Constitutional Restoration?

]]> By: Ten Bears http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138037 Ten Bears Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:53:25 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138037 Haven't 'yawl learned that politicians, any politician, will say anything. Rubes. Bone. Throw. Haven’t ‘yawl learned that politicians, any politician, will say anything.

Rubes. Bone. Throw.

]]> By: Lambert Strether, Philadelphia, PA http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138036 Lambert Strether, Philadelphia, PA Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:43:40 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138036 Speeches are great, but fine words butter no parsnips. If Obama really wants to differentiate himself from Hillary -- and ask for my vote, too* -- he can filibuster on the Senate floor, with Dodd, against the FISA abomination -- as he could have done before. That would be something to do <i>now</i>, not at a distant point in the future. I've argued for a long time that this would be a game-changer for Obama, the right thing to do, and the smart thing to do. I don't expect it. Leaders lead. *Then we could talk about universal health care and Social Security. Speeches are great, but fine words butter no parsnips. If Obama really wants to differentiate himself from Hillary — and ask for my vote, too* — he can filibuster on the Senate floor, with Dodd, against the FISA abomination — as he could have done before. That would be something to do now, not at a distant point in the future. I’ve argued for a long time that this would be a game-changer for Obama, the right thing to do, and the smart thing to do. I don’t expect it. Leaders lead.

*Then we could talk about universal health care and Social Security.

]]> By: Susie http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138033 Susie Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:40:31 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138033 From what I understand, that's only true of some of them. Others are a lot more complicated. From what I understand, that’s only true of some of them. Others are a lot more complicated.

]]> By: James Guglielmino http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138027 James Guglielmino Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:44:12 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138027 I have been thinking all along that these dictates of the chimperor could be removed by a simple executive order. The next President needs to start by removing the odious and illegal change in FOIA G I have been thinking all along that these dictates of the chimperor could be removed by a simple executive order. The next President needs to start by removing the odious and illegal change in FOIA
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]]> By: Catherine Morgan http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138026 Catherine Morgan Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:39:47 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138026 I wanted you to know, that I nominated you for <a href="http://action.wvwv.org/favorite_blogger" rel="nofollow">Women's Voices Making History</a>. Your blog is on my list of over 300 <a href="http://politicsanew.com/list-of-200-women-political-bloggers/" rel="nofollow">women blogging about politics</a>, and I am currently going through it, and nominating blogs that I think are most worthy. Anyone can nominate a blogger, so if you have others you would like to nominate, all you have to do is go to the site at <a href="http://action.wvwv.org/favorite_blogger" rel="nofollow">Women's Voices, Women Vote</a>. :-) Best, Catherine I wanted you to know, that I nominated you for Women’s Voices Making History. Your blog is on my list of over 300 women blogging about politics, and I am currently going through it, and nominating blogs that I think are most worthy. Anyone can nominate a blogger, so if you have others you would like to nominate, all you have to do is go to the site at Women’s Voices, Women Vote. :-)

Best,

Catherine

]]> By: k http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138024 k Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:15:37 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138024 Dean said this, didn't he? Maybe this time it will get to happen. Dean said this, didn’t he? Maybe this time it will get to happen.

]]> By: MrSnrub http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138023 MrSnrub Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:52:17 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/09/14/07/good-12/#comment-138023 This is one of the reasons why I support Obama over Clinton (though I would vote for Clinton if she got the nomination). This is one of the reasons why I support Obama over Clinton (though I would vote for Clinton if she got the nomination).

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