Rick Moran
American Thinker
12/13/2012
No use screaming about it. This is the power of incumbency and even though it is dishonest and hypocritical, it is legal. And there’s nothing the GOP can do about it…
For months, federal agencies and the White House have sidetracked dozens of major regulations that cover everything from power plant pollution to workplace safety to a crackdown on Wall Street.
The rules had been largely put on hold during the presidential campaign as the White House sought to quiet Republican charges that President Barack Obama was an overzealous regulator who is killing U.S. jobs.
But since the election, the Obama administration has quietly reopened the regulations pipeline…
…Some GOP lawmakers fear the worst.
Obama has spent the past year “punting” on a slew of job-killing regulations that will be unleashed in a second term, said Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. With the election over, it’s now “full speed ahead” for federal rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions, requiring cleaner gasoline and putting controls on drilling for oil and natural gas, said Inhofe, the senior Republican on the Senate Environment Committee.
Obama may not have to run again, but other Democrats do. I daresay that overregulation will be a big issue in 2014 when unemployment will still be high and the economy growing an an anemic rate.
The entire article is at American Thinker.
