The landmark case of Quick v. Slow

Despite Tuesday's historic lovefest, it isn't all that hard to find some toad-faced ingrate eager to toss out the, "Yeah, but what can he really do?" cereal-shitting line of reason. To that, we now have this:

Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team.

A team of four dozen advisers, working for months in virtual solitude, set out to identify regulatory and policy changes Obama could implement soon after his inauguration. The team is now consulting with liberal advocacy groups, Capitol Hill staffers and potential agency chiefs to prioritize those they regard as the most onerous or ideologically offensive, said a top transition official who was not permitted to speak on the record about the inner workings of the transition.

How's that for Ninja? Fifty policy wonks kept hidden from the public, chained to the walls of some bunker beneath Grant Park, starved for sunlight and forging friendships with reams of government reports. Their only task? Isolate as many nefarious, mean-spirited, politically motivated pieces of bullshit Bush-era policy as possible and concoct strategies to kill them.

While the hit squad has been pretty tight-lipped about which of W's policies they'll advise the President-Elect to target, I'm willing to guess at a few initiatives:

--Revoke Pat Robertson's appointment as Chief White House Genetic Research Consultant
--Executive nap time now limited to one hour per day
--Suspend Salisbury Steak Tuesdays in Congressional Cafeteria
--Exxon-Mobil no longer given final oversight over environmental initiatives
--Library of Congress to remove Left Behind series from Non-Fiction category
--Office of Vice President no longer outfitted with vats of baby plasma, bacta tank
--President now required to pay attention to daily intelligence briefing
--Decisions to be made based on empirical reasoning, as opposed to "mah gut"
--Oval Office desk no longer reserved for G.I. Joe battles