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Re: Politico
« Reply #210 on Sept 14, 2009, 8:50am »

This is what Obama has done in 7 months:

Reversed Bush policy on revealing list of guests to the White House.

Reversed Bush policy on banning stem cell research.

Removed combat troops from Iraqi towns and villages.

Signed order closing Guantanamo Bay.

Reversed Bush order on Family Planning.

Overturned Bush order on off shore drilling.

Reversed Bush order, reinstated Roadless Rule preserving old-growth forests in Oregon.

Reversed Bush, reinstated endangered species act.

Reversed Bush, cracked down on giving defense contractors blank checks.

Overturned former presidents' ability to indefinitely seal their records.

Reversed Bush policies on organized labor.

Reversed Bush's vehicle emissions policies.

Overturned a Bush policy that would've prevented 10,000 New Jersey children from receiving health care.

Overturned Bush policy and revitalized Freedom of Information Act.

Reversed Bush "conscience" rule, allowing doctors to refuse treatments.

Banned torture.

Reduced discrimination based on gender, age, religion, or race with Lily Ledbetter Act.

Extended federal benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers.

Reversed Bush and signed executive order requiring federal contractors to offer jobs to current workers when contracts change.

Reversed a Bush order requiring federal contractors to post notice that workers can limit financial support of unions serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives.

Reversed Bush, allowed caskets to be photographed when the return from Iraq with family approval.

Released nine previously secret internal Justice Department memos and opinions defining the legal limits of government power in combating terrorism.

Reverses Bush attitude towards Muslims, gives speech in Cairo engaging the Muslim and Arab world.

Reversed Bush, bars independent contractors from conducting interrogations of terror suspects.

Reversed Bush, granted Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba.

Reversed Bush, ordered the release of nearly a quarter of a million pages of records from the Reagan White House that were kept from the public during a lengthy review by Bush.

Restored funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program.

Reversed Bush, required new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.

Pushed for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors.

Created a White House Office on Urban Policy.

Reversed Bush, increased funding for the NEA.

Appointed an assistant to the president for science and technology policy.

Funded a major expansion of AmeriCorps.

Banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees.

Enacted tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars.

Provided grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes.

Extended unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits.

Reversed Bush, stopped raids on medical marijuana dispensers.

Nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic to ever serve on the Supreme Court.

Appointed more than 60 openly LGBT persons to positions in the executive branch.

Reversed Bush, signed a mercury reduction pact with 140 other nations.

Reversed Bush, signed the Weapons System Acquisition Reform Act to curb wasteful spending by the Pentagon. Intended to price contracts and budgets lower; may potentially save billions of dollars in defense.

Signed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009, which serves to protect two million acres of land and creates a new system of land conservation for the Bureau of Land Management.

Reversed Bush, cut funding for a proposed U.S. nuclear storage facility at Yucca Mountain.

Orders The Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration "to protect and restore the health, heritage, natural resources, and social and economic value of the Nation's largest estuarine ecosystem and the natural sustainability of its watershed."

Signed the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act designating two million additional acres of public wilderness areas the highest level of government protection from logging and other forms of commercial use and development.

Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act which will expedite the search for cures and treatments for millions of Americans living with paralysis caused by spinal cord injury, stroke, MS, Parkinson's and many other diseases and disorders.

Established The Joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record, a new system for updating medical records of servicemen and women both during and after their military careers.

Reversed Bush, created new and stronger safety standards to safeguard the country's food supply.

.. and more because this list isn't up to date.

Seems like being "Not Bush" isn't such a bad thing.

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Re: Politico
« Reply #211 on Sept 14, 2009, 8:31pm »

Brandon, this is awesome! Where did you find it?

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Re: Politico
« Reply #212 on Sept 15, 2009, 8:24am »

Eh, it was a user comment I saw in an article debunking the outrageous attendance numbers posted for the 9/12 Teabagger whatever thing last weekend in DC.

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