Or that a repub President doesn’t like the EO put in place by a dem. I can imagine any repub overriding any dem EOs unless outright illegal and even then I would have my doubts they would do it.

Dr. Frank Enstine on January 30, 2013 at 11:01 AM

Unfortunately, you’re right. Additionally, a GOP President might not have the political balls to take the heat from cancelling some of these EOs. Based on past performance, that’s a real possibility too.

Pursuing climate change through the White House rather than Congress also runs the risk of being a slapdash approach to the problem rather than a comprehensive solution.

Because Congress never does anything “slapdash” or that isn’t “comprehensive“. Riiiiiiiigggghhhhhtttttttt……

That assumes of course that the next President isn’t a another Democrat.
RadClown on January 30, 2013 at 10:52 AM

Or that a repub President doesn’t like the EO put in place by a dem. I can imagine any repub overriding any dem EOs unless outright illegal and even then I would have my doubts they would do it.

“In general, an executive can move faster when it acts on its own, but the danger is that nine or 13 months later, they’re going to find that what they’ve done is struck down,” McConnell said.

That’s true, but those decisions would then have to be unwound and the executive branch can drag their feet on that too. By the time a new President comes in, many of these policies could already be entrenched in the system, making them politically and administratively harder to extract, with damage already done. That assumes of course that the next President isn’t a another Democrat.