Posted on 03/20/2012 9:59:56 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
W.H.: Fewer regs than under Bush By: Darius Dixon March 20, 2012 11:03 AM EDT
A top White House official Tuesday defended the administration against charges that it’s trigger-happy with regulations, saying that fewer final regs have been issued under President Barack Obama than during the same period under George W. Bush.
“In terms of just the facts, the Obama administration’s issued fewer final rules in the first three years than the [George W.] Bush administration did in the first three years,” White House regulatory chief Cass Sunstein told the roughly 70-strong audience at a POLITICO breakfast event at the W Hotel in downtown Washington.
He didn’t provide specific numbers to back up his assertion.
POLITICO’s Mike Allen asked Sunstein to discuss the idea that “despite the reality, people still feel overregulated.”
“In terms of net benefits, we’re way ahead,” Sunstein said. “Actually, the first three years of the Obama administration has lower costs than the last three years of the Bush administration.
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LOL...
And how many repealed, or allowed to lapse?
How many expanded or “Reinterpreted” but not counted as new?
“Lies, damn lies, and statistics”
Indeed, as evidenced by this line from the narrative:
He didn’t provide specific numbers to back up his assertion.
Stunning
Note the careful choice of words: there are fewer “final rules” - many thousands of proposed rules that will soon go into effect are presumably not counted.
It’s a meaningless statistic anyway. How does one “count” regulations? By the number of titles? Number of clauses? And even if counting regulations was meaningful (but it isn’t), one onerous regulation is worth hundreds of “we already do that” regulations.
The ones that Obama did write, Bush force him to do it.
YOU LIE!!! could be a campaign slogan all by itself for Obama!
These people will lie to your face and not care that you know it!
LOL.. Called 9/11 happened - which resulted in new laws regs and whole new fed dept.
Try comparing apples to apples. Bush’s last 3 years with your first 3.
The bigger problem is that there has not been an effort by republicans to cut the size of government by cleaning out old regulations. “The more laws, the less liberty.”
LOL.. Called 9/11 happened - which resulted in new laws regs and Homeland Security.
Try comparing apples to apples. Bush’s last 3 years with your first 3.
Bush issued a regulation that opened oil drilling on the continental shelves and in Alaska.
Obama issued regulations that closed drilling permits in those places.
Same number of regulations, major different affect on the US economy.
“He didn’t provide specific numbers to back up his assertion.” Easy to make a claim without facts to back it up. Typical of this corrupt administration. If they are talking, you can be sure they are lying
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A top White House official Tuesday defended the administration against charges that it’s trigger-happy with regulations, saying that fewer final regs have been issued under President Barack Obama than during the same period under George W. Bush.
“In terms of just the facts, the Obama administration’s issued fewer final rules in the first three years than the [George W.] Bush administration did in the first three years,”
This bunch is just one howler after another, each one topping the previous. I knew election year would provide a laugh riot.
Forget the galoshes. Better to use a boat for all the administration b.s. you’d have to swim through!
Regs are one thing, but what about Executive Orders and the number of Czars who are making decisions, without issuing regulations?
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