Associated PressPresident Bush and President-elect Obama walk along the West Wing Colonnade of the White House in Washington, prior to their meeting in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)All weekend long, we read and heard references to "executive orders" -- chiefly, that through the use of such mechanisms, President-elect Obama planned to overturn Bush Administration policies.

But it struck us at some point during the interview of John Podesta, the head of Obama's transition team, on Fox News Sunday, that we really...