Obama Weighs Quick Undoing of Bush Policy

President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President Bush took using executive authority. His advisers were compiling a list of policies that could be reversed by the executive powers of the new president. The assessment is under way, aides said, but a full list of policies to be overturned will not be announced by President-elect Obama until he confers with new members of his cabinet. "There's a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for Congressional action, and I think we'll see the president do that," John D. Podesta, a top transition leader, said Sunday. "He feels like he has a real mandate for change. We need to get off the course that the Bush administration has set." The executive orders of the Bush administration are among the many items being reviewed by the new Obama team. The transition operation that was set up in August, even before Sen Obama was formally nominated at the Democratic convention, included a plan to scrutinize the policies that could be reversed through executive orders