Bush has made it a practice to issue executive orders with obvious "political content" and to ignore the advice of representatives of the "rest of the world."

Despite a Supreme Court ruling that the "line item veto" - accepting parts of legislation but deleting individual "things the Prez objects to" - Bush has issued several hundred effective "line items" in the form of "signing opinions," that in essence say that "Congress can make a law, but I don't have to enforce it." (Although that's not what his oath of office says.)

For the other side of the coin:

Obama positioned to reverse Bush actions

Some of the suggested "reversals" of executive actions likely will be quite controversial, and Obama advisors stress that few final decisions have been made; but there's a lot of dirty dealing to be cleaned up and it's encouraging to know that (some of) the possibilities are being examined.

John