Obama, in his sole discretion

By: David Limbaugh 3/14/2014

With each passing day, President Barack Obama, leftism personified, demonstrates that leftism is characterized by anything other than the human compassion it claims as its exclusive possession. I’ve always said leftists are about not compassion or treating people with sensitivity and respect, much less equally, but control and bullying, all with an arrogant, mean-spirited air of superiority………Obama is on a tear now, and no one had better get in his way. He told a group of liberal Democratic donors at a fundraiser this week in New York: “I hope you will all step up because, although I’m very optimistic about our long-term trends, the notion that we would waste two years in further inaction rather than move boldly on a path that I think all of us in this room agree on — we don’t have time to waste. … The clock is ticking. … I want to squeeze every last little bit of work that I can during the remainder of my term.”

Prior to his taking office, did anyone ever tell this man no in his life? He acts as though no one else has any say at all in policy decisions in a nation established with three coequal branches of the federal government, individual states with robust powers and citizens armed with individual liberties………To Read More….

 My Take – If anyone has any doubts about this take a look at some regulatory history and the impact created by this administration over the last five years with some analysis from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

“The annual Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the “codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the departments and agencies of the Federal Government.”

The page count for final general and permanent rules in the 50-title CFR seems less dramatic than that of the oft-cited Federal Register, which now tops 70,000 pages each year (it stood at 79,311 pages at year-end 2013, the fourth-highest level ever). The Federal Register contains lots of material besides final rules.

Still, the CFR “Archive-Of-All” is big. Very big.  Back in 1960, the CFR contained 22,877 pages in 68 volumes.  The pace picked up. The CFR stood at 71,224 pages by year-end 1975, in 133 volumes.  Now, new data from the National Archives shows that the CFR stands at 175,496 at year-end 2013, including the 1,170-page index. (See the breakout below.)

That’s a 146 percent increase since 1975. The number of CFR volumes stands at 235 (as of 2012; the 2013 count remains unavailable for the time being), compared with 133 in 1975.  More recently, at the end of President George W. Bush’s second term (2008), there were 157,974 pages in the CFR. 

That means President Obama has added 17,522 pages of regulations in his five years in office; one president growing the regulatory state 11 percent increase in five years.  In his five years in Office, President Obama has averaged 3,504 CFR pages annually.  Meanwhile, Bush’s final four years averaged 2,584 pages; his total eight-year tenure averaged 2,490 pages annually.”
 

There is one point I think really needs to be made. The fact that previous administrations, including the Bush administrations, developed substantially less regulations doesn't change the fact that federal regulations are a creeping out of control monster under “all” administrations. The only difference is one party wants to control what we own, what we eat, what we do, what we think and every other aspect of our lives by tomorrow. The other is willing to wait until the end of the week. But the end result will be the same.