No wonder the economy can’t grow by more than 2%. These cucks in the Obama administration have weaponized the EPA and other agencies to the point that they’re now foaming from the mouth — racing to place onerous restrictions on the economy. It’s astounding, really, the whole scope of their wanton and craven power hungry depravity.
At federal agencies across Washington, regulators are rushing to finalize rules before President Barack Obama leaves the White House.
Where the administration has issued an average of 2.2 rules per day this year, 10 were pushed out the door on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a count by the American Action Forum.“We’re running — not walking — through the finish line of President Obama’s presidency,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said to agency staff in a post-election e-mail.
The Federal Register, the dense tome where the government publishes new agency rules, swelled to 1,465 pages on Friday — the thickest volume yet this year. Since the Nov. 8 election of Donald Trump, who has vowed to fight “radical regulations,” the White House has finished reviews of nine economically significant rules — compared to eight during all of September.
Recent entries in the Federal Register include an Interior Department rule cracking down on methane emissions from oil wells and measures aiming to help highly skilled immigrant workers get green cards. On the horizon: a stream protection rule for coal mining, limits on the use of hydrofluorocarbons, new leak detection requirements for oil wells and quotas for boosting biofuel use in gasoline.
They just cannot help themselves, fucking the coal miner up until the very last day — in spite of the fact that Trump said he would repeal many of their regulations.
Even after new rules are published in the Federal Register, there’s typically a 60-day lag before they go into effect. And while Trump can work in concert with Republicans on Capitol Hill to swiftly repeal rules imposed since late May — and employ a time-consuming administrative process to rewrite older measures — it’s much easier to spike those that haven’t yet gone into effect.
“That ability to put on hold and essentially withdraw rules by the previous administration is much, much more efficient than repealing rules,” said Amit Narang, regulatory policy advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch. “Of course, that’s why it is so critical, because once you have a rule on the books, it’s harder to undo.”
In other words, the Obama administration, at this point, have taken on the mantle of being annoying dicks — a Kafka styled spider web of rules and regulations, under mountains of legalese paperwork designed to tie up the Trump administration in monotonous clerical work. They know what Trump wants to do and they’re purposely making it difficult for his vision for the country to manifest, one that was approved by the voters who elected him on November the 8th.
Environmentalists are embracing that calculus and lobbying the Obama administration to go big and bold by creating national monuments and imposing new air rules.
“We’ve told the White House and Interior Department on everything — whether it’s offshore drilling or national monuments — to be as ambitious as possible.” said Athan Manuel, director of lands protection for the Sierra Club. “Whatever they do, we’re going to have to depend it no matter what they propose, so we might as well ask for the moon.”
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
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