Sometime today, President Obama is going to issue an executive order eliminating the Mexico City policy (aka the Global Gag Rule) that prohibits the use of taxpayer money for foreign aid to organizations that provide abortions or information about abortion. So, let’s review:
Day One:
Issues executive orders restoring the Presidential Records Act and the Freedom of Information Act, freezing executive pay, and banning lobbying for incoming and outgoing members of his administration.
Files motions to suspend all Military Commission trials.
Also, meets with national security team and tasks them with implementing a withdrawal of all combat teams from Iraq within 16 months.
Day Two:
Issues executive order to close Gitmo (and all other secret prisons). Also issues executive order making the Army Field Manual the uniform standard for interrogations (effectively banning torture). Congress passes the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Day Three:
Issues executive order eliminating the Mexico City policy.
So far, I can’t find anything to complain about.
