Obama Doesn't Even Wait for Inauguration to be Divisive
Apparently, the Uniter can't even wait until the inauguration to throw out his happy rhetoric. While Rahm Emanuel is a smart choice, bringing someone with executive and legislative experience in to his administration to run things, he is certainly a partisan. Now we learn that Obama is planning to use executive orders to push divisive and extreme positions immediately upon entering office.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.
In the first instance, stem-cell research, regardless of your position on the issue, it is easy to recognize that passions are high on both sides. It is not an issue that unites.
In the second, 81% of Americans want to increase domestic production of coal and oil to combat rising energy prices and improve US energy security. Limiting domestic production is an extreme position.
Even if he could be persuasive on these issues, he is choosing not to, planning to implement these changes by a unilateral executive order. That does not sound like the first step to reaching out to the center of this country.
