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6,125 Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days–Average 68 per Day

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From CNSNews.com:

(CNSNews.com) – It’s Friday morning, and so far today, the Obama administration has posted 165 new regulations and notifications on its reguations.gov website.

In the past 90 days, it has posted 6,125 regulations and notices – an average of 68 a day.

Some of the proposed regulations revise regulations already on the books.

The website also links to a video of a speech President Barack Obama gave at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 7, 2011, in which the president promised to remove “outdated and unnecessary regulations.”

A number of groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, expect a rush of new regulations now that President Obama has won a second term.

Yes indeed, welcome, America, to the second terms of the president who believes you are simultaneously under-taxed and under-regulated.

And he’s going to do something about that.

Right now.

BZ

P.S.
When UK’s The Economist thinks you’re over-regulated, you have a problem, considering the magazine’s source.

 

 

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America: you want perfection? Suffer the consequences

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Any number of communities and neighborhoods in the New York/New Jersey areas are complaining that, after a full two weeks post Hurricane Sandy, there is still no electrical power.

Power companies are saying that they won’t provide power until they can individually inspect and approve a massive number of electrical panels and conduits and transformers.

They say this could not just take days, but weeks and — now — months.

Because they know this one very salient thing: any person injured or, worse, possibly killed because of “improperly” or “hurriedly” restored power will themselves or their survivors contact an attorney group in order to instigate a civil or possibly criminal negligence suit for redress of a fiscally-geometric nature.

Therefore, American tort history mandates that these companies move with a glacial-like pace in order to achieve American Expectational Perfection.

Anything less involves lawsuits.

I say:

Get over yourselves, America.

You wanted Perfection?

Fine.

Live with its lawful (what I call the) Logical Extension.

BZ

 

 

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Gen. Petraeus resigns: a POLITICAL PLOY to keep him from testifying on Benghazi

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CIA Director General David Petraeus resigned on Friday because of an affair with a woman not his wife.

Why?

DC is literally festooned with hot-and-cold-running affairs, in every office, on both sides of the aisle.

Why Petraeus?  Why now?

Here is why, from Breitbart.com:

Petraeus was slated to testify before Congress next week on the murder of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, in Benghazi, Libya. Bret Baier of Fox News just tweeted, “With Petraeus’ resignation effective immediately, he will not testify next week & lawmakers are said to be ‘stunned’ by the announcement.”

This is not coincidence.  This was timed to the Nth degree in order to protect Barack Hussein Obama.

Period.

BZ

 

 

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Harry Reid’s first job post Obama’s re-election? Limit the GOP. Raise taxes.

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That’s fair, isn’t it?

From the WashingtonTimes.com:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP’s ability to filibuster bills.

Speaking in the wake of Tuesday’s election, which boosted Senate Democrats’ numbers slightly, Mr. Reid said he won’t end filibusters altogether but that the rules need to change so that the minority party cannot use the legislative blocking tool as often.

“I think that the rules have been abused and that we’re going to work to change them,” he told reporters. “We’re not going to do away with the filibuster but we’re going to make the Senate a more meaningful place.”

Republicans, who have 47 of the chamber’s 100 seats in the current Congress, have repeatedly used that strong minority to block parts of President Obama’s agenda on everything from added stimulus spending to his judicial picks. A filibuster takes 60 senators to overcome it.

The loving Harry Reid also promised amnesty for illegal Mexican invaders and tax increases.  Oh joy!  I cannot wait:

Sen. Harry Reid embraced his role as a more empowered Senate majority leader Wednesday, calling for a major fiscal deal in the lame duck session while vowing a new push on immigration reform and an overhaul of filibuster rules in the new Congress.

Speaking at a packed news conference on Capitol Hill, Reid laid out an ambitious agenda for 2013 after his party’s surprisingly decisive Senate victories and President Barack Obama’s reelection bid, saying the public gave Democrats a new mandate to raise taxes on wealthy families as part of a major year-end fiscal deal. While Reid said he’s not going to “draw lines in the sand” ahead of the year-end fiscal cliff, he insisted on higher revenues.

Right.  A “mandate.”  I guess Mr Reid didn’t pay attention to the final numbers:

OBAMA 60,085,524*
ROMNEY 57,401,992 

A 3-million difference does not a “mandate” make.  [As an aside, it is estimated that roughly 3-million Republican or Conservative voters stayed home last Tuesday.  Wonderful.  Thanks for that, you coneheads.  Apparently you got what you wanted by sitting on your splayed gluteals.  Don’t like the next four years?  Zip it.]Harry Reid has, once again, said that “reaching across the aisle” and “consensus” and “compromise” equates to nothing more than doing exactly, preciselywhat the Demorats want — and nothing more or less than that.  It becomes not “compromise” but EDICT.

Yes indeed.  That’s fair and impartial.

BZ

 

 

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