Posted on 12/14/2013 9:59:19 PM PST by Seizethecarp
The White House systematically delayed enacting a series of rules on the environment, worker safety and health care to prevent them from becoming points of contention before the 2012 election, according to documents and interviews with current and former administration officials.
Some agency officials were instructed to hold off submitting proposals to the White House for up to a year to ensure that they would not be issued before voters went to the polls, the current and former officials said.
The delays meant that rules were postponed or never issued. The stalled regulations included crucial elements of the Affordable Care Act, what bodies of water deserved federal protection, pollution controls for industrial boilers and limits on dangerous silica exposure in the workplace.
The Obama administration has repeatedly said that any delays until after the election were coincidental and that such decisions were made without regard to politics. But seven current and former administration officials told The Washington Post that the motives behind many of the delays were clearly political, as Obama’s top aides focused on avoiding controversy before his reelection.
The number and scope of delays under Obama went well beyond those of his predecessors, who helped shape rules but did not have the same formalized controls, said current and former officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.
Those findings are bolstered by a new report from the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), an independent agency that advises the federal government on regulatory issues. The report is based on anonymous interviews with more than a dozen senior agency officials who worked with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which oversees the implementation of federal rules.
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So Obama didn’t want the voters to have a say about his policies. We shouldn’t be surprised considering his past statements about democracy.
With the increasing power of the Executive Branch, I think that a single Two Year Term would be quite enough.
Wait, make that a One Year Term including the six Month Vacation.
>> A free press that chooses to be subservient is pointless and impotent.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
However a free press that decides to be the advocate of the Administrative Branch of government is most powerful and far from impotent and thus becomes a partner in the tyranny of government.
“More and more, I favor a six year Presidency and no consecutive second term.”
Term limits and a media/government ban.
The media's job in a free republic is to ensure whatever Obama says is believed and unchallenged.
What if right now while their numbers have tanked to their lowest point ever they still have us under control and we don't get it?
What if it's almost a year before the 2014 elections and they have it figured out to bring up amnesty several months before the election? Boner has already said he will take it up. What if the timing is such that amnesty takes out all the oxygen in the air just about election time? What if this one move keeps us from getting the Senate back by just a few votes?
Any chance that happening,or every chance?
Note the salient parts of this post,yesterday,This week
I would be a lot more impressed to see fat Chrissy and the slimes doing such noble deeds of random journalism only weeks before an election instead of almost a year.
This wreaks of plausible denyablity for next Sept and Oct. when they bash our side for every tiny little evil deed we are doing.We can't trust the driveby media ever.
Nasty picture on a Sunday morn right after breakfast!
Keep me on the list please.
...delayed enacting a series of rules on the environment, worker safety and health care to prevent them from becoming points of contention before the 2012 election, according to documents and interviews...
do I really have to say it???
Many of us have maintained all along that ValJar and the DNC stole the 2012 election. Want proof, you need go no further.
Bears repeating.
ping to pre-election policy coverup/lying by Barry.
Key definition of Obamacare expanded unaffordable essential coverage was withheld from analysts and voter (of course).
This is not news but the fact that WaPo is pounding Barry on the front page IS news, IMO.
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