House GOP to focus on overregulation this fall
It appears that letter Speaker John Boehner sent to the White House last week foreshadowed part of the House GOP’s legislative agenda for this fall. From a National Journal report on a memo House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent Monday to Republican members about tackling “10 job-destroying regulations”:
Cantor wrote that Republicans will kick off their efforts the week of September 12 by seeking to overrule a National Labor Relations Board ruling that restricts Boeing’s efforts to move an assembly line from unionized Washington state to South Carolina, a right-to-work state. Business leaders accuse the Obama administration of seeking to to help labor allies. Cantor noted that freshman Rep. Tim Scott, R-S.C., has introduced legislation to prevent NLRB from “restricting where an employer can create jobs in the United States.”
Other regulatory proposals or rules to be targeted in following weeks and months touch on Environmental Protection Agency standards for cross-state air pollution from power plants, boilers, coal ash in mining-heavy states, cement production, and farm dust; new ozone standards; greenhouse-gas performance standards; and some rules under the new health care law.
House Republicans have been attacking these kinds of regulations as executive-branch overreaches, and the idea that bureaucrats are clamping down on businesses during persistently high unemployment is likely to resonate with a lot of voters. It also plants a stake in the ground for Boehner and Cantor ahead of President Obama’s new jobs plan.
They aren’t running against him next year, but I would expect this to be a welcome fight among the Republicans who are running.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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williebkind
August 30th, 2011
1:59 pm
“Media bias, much like the war on Christmas and all the other wedge issues the right like to bandy about exists, but mostly in the mind of those with a predilection for victimization or those who know that casting oneself as a victim will score political points”
That myfriend is a lie! There is media bias that helped get Obama elected and the atheists you dearly love attack Christmas and Christains at every opportunity. must I go on..
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
2:03 pm
Filter, I have no problem with someone else’s opinion, as long as that opinion isn’t pulled out of their a$$.
Now, you can have all the opinions you wish to have, but at least have the intellectual honesty to have them based on facts, not a dismissal that things don’t exist just – because.
And you can try to foist your misguided opinions of my “need for victimization” to the dumb masses, but THIS individual who has never been victimized in his life because I won’t allow it is gonna tell you exactly where to go when you try it.
Got it, bub?
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 30th, 2011
2:03 pm
Lil’ Phony: “Everyone knows companies are moving jobs offshore in search of even lower wages.”
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Lil’ Phony is afraid a brown person might take his job away.
Just Saying..
August 30th, 2011
2:15 pm
Kyle:
“…GOP to focus on overregultion…”. Pejorative term, at all? Any chance the House GOP will focus on EPA regulations?
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
2:17 pm
It’s Lil’ Bushie Bailout, you know the “Original Bailouter” or O.B., if you want to get gangster with it, with his $700 billion bailout plan. But I digress.
“Everyone knows companies are moving jobs offshore in search of even lower wages.”
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Lil’ Phony is afraid a brown person might take his job away.
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Nope, Contard. In the words of Bushie:
“I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe — I believe what I believe is right.” –Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 30th, 2011
2:36 pm
Don’t be afraid of the brown man, Lil’ Phony. He has as much right to feed his family as you. Your entitlement mentality is disappointing.
Filter
August 30th, 2011
2:37 pm
Ohhhhh, I skeered now. I got it tough guy. Wanna play John Wayne now do you. Bully boys like you have no effect on me. I chalk it up to overcompensation.
I have my opinions, I am entitled to them, and I would wager that mine are worth them same as yours…nothing. As for facts, I suppose if all I had going on in life was to play pundit on a newspaper blog then I’d have the time to google and find someone to back up my worthless opinion just like you’ve got your slam dunk study to back up your worthless opinion.
And if you don’t want to be seen as a pathetic victim them stop playing one. Like I said before, look at your name. You assume hate….I suppose because you’re such a rebel. When in reality you’re just another blowhard bloviating on a blog and presupposing that every post MUST be posted simply so you can comment thereon.
What really is going to surprise you is that I’m actually Dan Rather, on this blog to bias against you, you poor little victim.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
2:41 pm
Dime store psycho-babble, Filter. Worth every penny, too.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
2:42 pm
“Any chance the House GOP will focus on EPA regulations?”
Are you saying that EPA regulations should be off the table?
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
2:49 pm
Don’t be afraid of the brown man, Lil’ Phony. He has as much right to feed his family as you. Your entitlement mentality is disappointing.
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Nope, not afraid. But:
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” –George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 (Listen to audio)
Filter
August 30th, 2011
2:53 pm
Dime store truth. Hurts to look in the mirror.
Poor widdle Tiberious….so put upon.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 30th, 2011
2:58 pm
Lil’ Phony, your Idiot Messiah told that one to a “corpseman” but couldn’t get a laugh out of him.
WAW
August 30th, 2011
3:03 pm
Vote republican = vote against yourself, your family, your mama and daddy and for the corporate bottom line (that’s all that matters)
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 30th, 2011
3:06 pm
The same idiots who think Republicans are “greedy” also think they vote against their own interests.
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
3:12 pm
Lil’ Corny, your Idiot Messiah told that one to a shocked and mortified group in Greece, NY.
Keep on being a contard.
WAW
August 30th, 2011
3:15 pm
If the bottom line is all that matters to you, then have at it. It’s a free country – for now.
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
3:16 pm
Intelligent people know that Republicans are “greedy”, and that they vote for their own interests.
Aww…that’s reads better.
WAW
August 30th, 2011
3:26 pm
If you talk to a Republican long enough (let them get through their coined phrases and standard talking points), all you need to find it one (1) point you can agree with them on and then ask, “What do you think about (insert a family issue, like taking care of grandma). From there, you will discover that most folks you vote Republican are just common folks who are on Social Security and Medicare (or mama and daddy and grandma are), who want their kids to have a chance to go to college (and not get killed in some Oil Company war), and would enjoy a day without input from their programmers (but they can’t resist the habit).
saywhat?
August 30th, 2011
5:01 pm
“I don’t want to call them a one-trick pony, but isn’t this their solution to every problem the country faces?”
“So far their solution has worked to cure dandruff, the common cold, cancer, athlete’s foot, psoriasis, end world hunger, end wildlife destruction, AND create world peace.
You’re sneering at their super-duper-double-secret plan is due from your jealousy.”
Its true. Tax cuts also cured my rectal itch. If only there had been more deregulation, I would have been able to crap skittles.
Junior Samples
August 30th, 2011
5:39 pm
Moving a Boeing a plant from one state to another is killing jobs? No, it’s just MOVING jobs. Spin it all you want…
Regarding anything related to the EPA, those regulations are in place for a reason. Some cities couldn’t see the sun due to air pollution. Rivers caught fire. But those corporations will behave this time, right?
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 31st, 2011
6:06 am
If you think Boeing isn’t considering moving new production offshore as a direct result of the Obozo administration’s hassling, then you’re probably a liberal fascist demitard. Pardon the triple redundancy.
Terry Jay
August 31st, 2011
10:13 am
Look at the latest polls. Even though most Americans are fed up with Congress as a whole, majority of voters blame the GOP for not working with the Democrats and the GOPs “my way or the highway” attitude. The Republicans have been in the minority in Washington more times then thay’ve been in the majority. I wonder why? I’m an independent voter and i will tell you that all of this GOP political posturing is not impressing me one bit. The Dems do it to, but the GOP takes the prize on this one. And then there is FOX brainwashing network that most conservatives get their info from and they should be shut down for retracting the truth out of their stories. If you do your homework like i do then you will see what i’m talking about.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 31st, 2011
10:28 am
Here’s a poll for you: November 2010.
Lil' Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 31st, 2011
10:39 am
Here’s a poll for you: November 2010.
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Here’s a yawn for you.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 31st, 2011
10:50 am
Your denial of reality is quite lame. You have my permission to construct your own if it helps you deal with the pain.
Nat Turner
August 31st, 2011
11:47 am
There is no pain. As for denial of reality, pot, have you met the kettle?
By the way, Americans are fickle. How quickly people have grown tired with the Tea Party! It will make 2012 that much sweeter, don’t you think? Silly Bush, he doesn’t think.
“I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job.” — Bush to a group of Amish he met with privately, July 9, 2004
Lil' Bushie Bailout (Revised Upwards)
August 31st, 2011
11:49 am
There is no pain. As for denial of reality, pot, have you met the kettle?
By the way, Americans are fickle. How quickly people have grown tired with the Tea Party! It will make 2012 that much sweeter, don’t you think? Silly Bush, he doesn’t think.
“I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job.” — Bush to a group of Amish he met with privately, July 9, 2004
Kyle Wingfield
August 31st, 2011
11:51 am
Oops — did Nat Turner, aka Huntsman’s No. 1 fan, just reveal him/herself as Lil’ Bushie Bailout?
Lil' Bushie Bailout (Revised Upwards)
August 31st, 2011
11:57 am
Lol…oh, Kyle. Nope. But I do agree with Nat.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 31st, 2011
12:12 pm
ROFL. Isn’t it funny when sockpuppets forget to change their screen name?
Lil' Bushie Bailout (Revised Upwards)
August 31st, 2011
12:17 pm
Whatever, there is no sock puppet. It is still Lil’ Bushie.
Kyle Wingfield
August 31st, 2011
1:01 pm
Uh huh.
democracy rules
September 1st, 2011
12:05 am
the spendoctrats had no choice but to spend spend spend because of the republidiots.