Turley: Late Bush move 'almost sign of contempt' for election

[katty]

Turley: Late Bush move 'almost sign of contempt' for election resultsDavid Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Thursday November 13, 2008

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Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley describes George Bush's intention to finalize 90 last-minute federal regulations, many of them on particularly sensitive issues, as "akin to fouling a water-well ... almost a sign of contempt for the results of the election."

In an appearance Wednesday on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Turley explained, "This is the ultimate dead-hand control. ... What a president can do is, by finalizing a regulation, he can force his successor to go through an entirely new regulatory process that can take years."

"What the means in real terms," Turley noted, "is that you can have an Obama administration that continues to carry out George Bush's directives. And for people who elected Obama for change, that's a particularly obnoxious reality to accept."

[pretzel4gore]

1. surely they, the Dems etc, know....

if the Youngster does anything, it'd part of a larger scheme. Anyway, the damage done is almost beyond recall, so Barack should take it easy. The USA supposedly elected the criminal twice; and now it's time to pay up.
It's time to reveal to people the fact that the bush grand-daddy prescott was part of plot to overthrown Roosevelt before WW2. To elect such a freak's kid and grandkid to top office is insane.

[lutefisk]

2. It's more than contempt. He's dropping a big ole deuce on us as he heads out the door.

Metaphorically speaking.

What a contemptible prick. He feels no sense of duty to this country or its people. After 8 years he just trashes the place, gives us the finger, and leaves.

[malletgirl02]

3. Bush

Remember those people on this board who were worried about Bush doing something crazy at the end of his term? Turns out they were right.

[onethatcares]

4. it's not over yet. I have this feeling we're gonna see somemore

bullshit from him and the dick before 1/20/09. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall after the President Elect left the whitehouse the other day.