American Horse
AKA "Mustang"
If that were the case Bush could've done it. Never forget the rules of the Senate, cloture and witholding appointment approvals can stop about anything, because a senate wanting to get anything else done can become hamstrung by those and other impediments. Right now the Senate has all the power they need except, we can only hope, nerve.The very first thing President Palin and the Conservative Congress will do is to lower the price of energy by opening ANWR, drill in the Gulf, refine shale oil, fast track 100 nuclear reactors.