Posted on 12/14/2013 9:59:19 PM PST by Seizethecarp
The White House systematically delayed enacting a series of rules on the environment, worker safety and health care to prevent them from becoming points of contention before the 2012 election, according to documents and interviews with current and former administration officials.
Some agency officials were instructed to hold off submitting proposals to the White House for up to a year to ensure that they would not be issued before voters went to the polls, the current and former officials said.
The delays meant that rules were postponed or never issued. The stalled regulations included crucial elements of the Affordable Care Act, what bodies of water deserved federal protection, pollution controls for industrial boilers and limits on dangerous silica exposure in the workplace.
The Obama administration has repeatedly said that any delays until after the election were coincidental and that such decisions were made without regard to politics. But seven current and former administration officials told The Washington Post that the motives behind many of the delays were clearly political, as Obama’s top aides focused on avoiding controversy before his reelection.
The number and scope of delays under Obama went well beyond those of his predecessors, who helped shape rules but did not have the same formalized controls, said current and former officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.
Those findings are bolstered by a new report from the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), an independent agency that advises the federal government on regulatory issues. The report is based on anonymous interviews with more than a dozen senior agency officials who worked with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which oversees the implementation of federal rules.
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election by deception,, a DemocRatic strategy for decades.
Not that criminal fraud is a “high crime” or “misdemeanor.” /s
“White House delayed enacting rules ahead of 2012 election to avoid controversy”
Liberal media delayed reporting of White House delaying enacting rules ahead of 2012 election to avoid losing the election for obama.
States had to file FOIA lawsuits to find out how the exchanges were going to work.
The White House also delayed the release of reports on its scandals until after the election...part of this springs “ scandal storm” was the release of reports that had been completed last year.
The MSM also refrained from reporting the multitude of broken promises, including detailed characteristics of Obamacare, in the months leading up to the election.
Brett Baer just highlighted this WaPo story at the noon political news update. I expect more in-depth analysis in his show tonight.
We knew this.
We knew this before the election.
We have a a radical, extremist Democrat party who knows how to manipulate the stupid voter base.
“We knew this before the election.”
True, but now WaPo is openly attacking Barry!
Imagine the screaming phonecall made to WaPo when this article came out and the IRS audits and phone-taps of the WH leakers that will follow.
WaPo and the media elite are no longer afraid of Barry’s Chicago protection squad, it seems. MSM hate it when Barry makes them look bad for supporting him as Barry did in the 1st debate and now with “Liar of the Year” on his forehead.
Great Post!
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