Regulatory Misdirection – Again, watch what BHO does, not what he says or writes!

By John Sykes

In Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System, Barrack Obama presents us with more of his misdirection with fake claims of correcting the regulatory nightmare he is implementing:

 
This order requires that federal agencies ensure that regulations protect our safety, health and environment while promoting economic growth. And it orders a government-wide review of the rules already on the books to remove outdated regulations that stifle job creation and make our economy less competitive. It's a review that will help bring order to regulations that have become a patchwork of overlapping rules, the result of tinkering by administrations and legislators of both parties and the influence of special interests in Washington over decades.

Actually he is just kicking the problem down the road, as he does with all problems, cynically misdirecting us so he can get reelected while taking us deeper and deeper into his statist nightmare.

In Obama on Overregulation: Less than Meets the Eye, James Gattuso at Heritage says “… a look at the actual executive order signed by the President this morning indicates that the promising rhetoric has not been matched by real action.”

Moreover:

Rather than require agencies to identify harmful regulations during the next 120 days, or even to eliminate unwarranted rules, the order merely requires agencies to submit a “preliminary plan” for reviewing regulations sometime in the future, with the goal of making their regulatory program either less burdensome or “more effective.” And despite promises of transparency elsewhere in the order, the results of any regulatory reviews conducted are required to be released online only “whenever possible.”

The problem is, per Gattuso, *…the initiative is hardly “government-wide,” excluding independent agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

What we really then have is a preliminary plan to: (1) review, not change, regulations, (2) without a requirement to present any conclusions and (3) bypass some of the most offending agencies.

Incredible!  But what really worries me is what that ace up his sleeve represents! Again, Watch what he does, not what he says or writes!

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