Huge Bush Gaffe Allows Obama To Overturn More Laws

We've heard for the past week that Barack Obama intends on overturning George W. Bush's Executive Orders. Basically all laws passed in the middle of the night without Congressional approval and all, coincidentally, bad for the American people.

Now Politico brings us news that the Bush Administration made a huge gaffe. They aimed for the wrong date to get all of their legislation signed into law.

The Bush Administration were racing to finalize new laws before November 1st, the date they believed was the cut off date for Obama to be able to easily overturn anything Bush passes at the end of his term.

However, Bush's targeted date was wrong.

It turns out Bill Clinton passed a law called the Congressional Review Act in 1996. It's ironic since Clinton made the same mistake Bush did by passing many laws in the last 60 days of office and then had them overturned by the next administration.

The Congressional Review Act has a clause that will cost Bush any additional pillaging he and his cronies were planning for the end of their run.

Politico explains the Congressional Review Act and the specific clause that affects Bush:

"...any regulation finalized within 60 days of congressional adjournment — Oct. 3, in this case — is considered to have been legally finalized on Jan. 15, 2009. The new Congress then has 60 days to review it and reverse it with a joint resolution that can’t be filibustered in the Senate."

As Politico sums up:

"In other words, any regulation finalized in the last half-year of the Bush administration could be wiped out with a simple party-line vote in the Democrat-controlled Congress."

So King George's reign of terror ended over a month ago. Anything Bush signs into law for the rest of his term can be easily overturned by Obama with little or no help from Congress. The same goes for anything Bush signed into law since October 3rd. Anything Bush signed before October 3rd will take further Congressional action, but with the Dems controlling the House and Senate, much of Bush's hypocrisy can be turned back. Too bad we can't say the same about the last eight years.