The deuce you say!
To some staunch conservatives watching President Bush relinquish the reins of power to President-elect Barack Obama, a few too many ardent liberals are now crashing the gates.
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Conservatives fear that some of these Obama transition advisers are too far left on the political spectrum and are a sign of radical policies to come.
Why, it’s almost like conservatives spent the past two years telling voters that Barack Obama was an unreconstructed old-school progressive and that his move to the center was a hollow, cynical attempt to get elected!
Good grief. No wonder newspapers are going the way of buggy-whip makers and peddlers of “brain tonic”. Well, that and dropping unrebutted clunkers like this.
“The incoming Bush people were all about stopping regulation. The Obama people will do their best to accelerate regulation that they think protects the environment, workers, airline safety, et cetera,” said Paul Light, a New York University professor of government who has served as a consultant on the transition to The Washington Post.
In fact, the Bush administration was so good at stopping regulation that it added some 14,000 pages to the Federal Register in the past eight years and “outlays on regulatory activities, adjusted for inflation, increased from $26.4 billion to an estimated $42.7 billion, or 62 percent”. Bush has been the biggest regulator since the bad old days of Richard Nixon.
Man, that’s some awesome display of “stopping regulation”! He only doubled the Clinton administration’s regulatory cost. Imagine what could have happened if he hadn’t stopped all that regulation, huh?
Lord, the crap they print in the newspapers these days. What’s not blindingly obvious is laughably wrong.
(via memeorandum and Instapundit)
Tags: Conservatives, Media Bias, Nanny State, President Barack Obama, President George Bush, Washington Post
The Sun orbits the Earth now?
In the same sense that the Bush administration has been anti-regulation. I think I got too cute w/the title.