(2008-12-16) Bush Midnight Regulations

George W Bush is issuing lots of "MidnightRegulation-s" before he leaves. The spate of rules is going to be hard for Barack Obama to quickly overcome. By issuing them early in the "LameDuck" period of office, the Bush administration has mostly dodged 30- or 60-day time limits that would have made undoing them relatively straightforward. Obama's team will have to go through a more lengthy process of reversing them, as it is forced to open them to a period of public consulting. That means that undoing the damage could take months or even years, especially if corporations go to the courts to prevent changes.