November 3, 2012

Hope and change to come

Something wonderful to look forward to -- from Hot Air:
Oh, good: Obama admin just sitting on a bunch of new regulations
As if it isn�t enough that the Obama administration is severely outpacing his predecessors in terms of regulation-output, the NJ is out with a report detailing all of the new-and-exciting regulations the Obama administration is just waiting out the election to write. I don�t suppose this could have anything to do with why they�ve conspicuously failed to comply with the law by producing a regulatory outlook every six months, could it?
Federal agencies are sitting on a pile of major health, environmental, and financial regulations that lobbyists, congressional staffers, and former administration officials say are being held back to avoid providing ammunition to Mitt Romney and other Republican critics.

Despite looming legislative deadlines in the Affordable Care Act, court deadlines requiring environmental-protection rules, and a financial industry awaiting clarification on key reform details, the pace of regulatory release has slowed by almost half. The drop-off stands out not just compared to earlier years of Obama�s term but also compared to other years in which presidents are running for reelection, according to analyses from experts at George Mason and George Washington universities.

The administration has also failed to release a required regulatory outlook document, describing its regulatory agenda. Such documents are supposed to be published every six months; the most recent one was published in January, making this the longest lag between outlooks since the deadline schedule was created in 1994.
Yes, but it�s the �Republican obstructionism� preventing Obama from doing even more that is ostensibly the source of our crummy economy. Riiiiiiight.
The fact that they are hiding this makes it obvious that they know Obama doesn't have the best interests of this Nation at heart. The fools fail to realize that they will be impacted by these new rules and regulations along with everyone else. Energy prices skyrocketing indeed. How about food prices, materials (priced a 2*4 recently?), gallon of gasoline? These are all about double what they were when Obama took office all the while, the Fed is printing money, diluting our currency and triggering rampant inflation. Posted by DaveH at November 3, 2012 3:25 PM
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