Posted on 06/08/2011 4:22:01 PM PDT by jazusamo
Obama bureaucrats ignore president’s call for regulatory reform
Like so much of President Obama’s agenda, the promise of regulatory reform has proved entirely empty. After Democrats received a beat-down at the polls last November, an executive order was dashed off promising to pare back the job-killing regulations being pumped out by federal agencies that the president said “were just plain dumb.” On Friday, House Republicans called Mr. Obama’s bluff.
Executive Order 13563 set a deadline of May 18 for preliminary plans from departments and agencies to streamline operations and repeal those dumb rules. Mr. Obama basked in widespread praise for his bold initiative. On Friday, however, regulatory czar Cass Sunstein was forced to admit to the House Energy and Commerce Committee that a grand total of one agency had bothered to comply; the National Labor Relations Board had submitted a one-page document in response. “We learned today that the Obama administration’s much celebrated regulatory reform simply does not exist amongst the independent agencies,” said a disappointed Rep. Cliff Stearns, Florida Republican.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s William L. Kovacs testified in very concrete terms how the administration’s regulatory excess is killing jobs. Two coal-fired power plants - one in Oregon and one in New Jersey - shut down rather than install hundreds of million of dollars worth of equipment mandated by an Environmental Protection Agency pursuing an extreme anti-industrial policy. “This is a highly disturbing trend, and one that will only continue in 2011 with the issuance of even more major rules,” warned Mr. Kovacs.
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Nothing will be cut until all 3 branches of government are solidly in conservative hands.
Dreaming...
The bureaucracy is doing EXACTLY what Hussein wanted them to do: nothing. Hussein doesn’t give two Shiite Muslims about making government better. All those speeches were, like he once mocked, “just words”.
You’re correct and it shows what a hypocrite Obama is, he signed an EO and then he and his flunkies ignore it.
” all 3 branches of government are solidly in conservative hands. “
Remember that it was a nominally ‘conservative’ Supreme Court that recently ruled that a)CO2 is a ‘pollutant’, and, b) that the EPA had the ‘mandate’ to regulate CO2....
It doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to visualize the day when Congress passes legislation to rein in the EPA, the EPA sues in the USSC to set the legislation aside - and wins....
(For those of you keeping score at home, that would be the final nail in the coffin of ‘Representative Government’...)
It was a lie when he said, it is still a lie, and will continue to be a lie as long as the man sits in the White House. He intends to kill every job possible. The idiot thinks Americans need to be punished and brought down, and he intends to do just that. Lying is part of this standing operating procedure. Deny,lie, obfuscate, blame, and refuse documents.
Bump!
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