Posted by
Jeff Fitzmaurice on Sunday, January 25, 2009 1:12:54 AM
The first week of Obama's Presidency is behind him now. How many Executive Orders has he signed this week anyway? And just his first week! Man, that's really hard stuff. He's gone from making Bush's private stuff public, to funding abortion around the world. That's the easy stuff that everyone expected he would do the first week. We all knew he would pronounce closure to Gitmo also. That was a no-brainer. And, amazingly, all his cabinet appointees passed with flying, bipartisan support. Truly amazing.
My big question now is, after all this work, what's next? What is his next Executive Order going to be? Will it be a Health Care Plan? Will it be the greening up of the White House? I'm just on pins and needles waiting for the next pronouncement. Will he side-step Congress and just get things done by Executive Order? That would sure save time for Congress. Let the President do the hard stuff with just a swipe of his pen and a YouTube video and leave the more trivial stuff to Congress. After all, he is ruling the nation now, as President.