executive orders – Moe Lane

Head Obama for America flack Jim Messina’s got yet another reeking-of-desperation fundraising email out complaining that – Prepared to be terrified, folks! – the GOP candidates are all promising to take a stake through the heart of Obamacare and kill it dead, dead, dead on their first day in office. This is, of course, a fringe position – if one can define ‘fringe’ as ‘supported by somewhere around 52% of the population*,’ which the Democrats will certainly at least try to do.

Anyway, Messina’s a bit wordy when he’s whining. That means that I can cut down the meat of his argument, such as it is:

Continue reading Jim Messina probably shouldn’t talk about first day Presidential promises.

It wasn’t until I read this AoSHQ post about the delay in the detention report (preliminary details here) that I started counting off the months on my fingers. Six months from July 21st makes… January 21st, more or less.

The work of a Justice Department-led task force, which had been scheduled to send a report on detention policy to President Obama on Tuesday, will be extended for six months, according to senior administration officials. A second task force examining interrogation policy will get a two-month extension to complete its work, which had also been due Tuesday.

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The officials said the administration remains committed to closing the prison in Cuba by January 2010…

I fail to see how. After the fold is the relevant text of the original Executive Order: note that it is dated January 22, 2009. Continue reading The impossible Gitmo deadline: 24 hours?