Posted on 08/20/2011 4:59:37 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
For a small-government conservative on the presidential campaign stump like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a new federal regulation forcing farmers to get commercial drivers licenses would make a perfect example of Barack Obama’s Washington run amok.
But there is no such regulation.
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration stepped in to clarify whether the states had the right to do what Illinois had done, and on May 31, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a public notice asking for comment on the commercial licensing of farm equipment.
Many in the farm community saw that notice as evidence that federal regulations were brewing, and the rumor went viral. That speeded up the process in Washington. Last Wednesday, the agency moved to put the issue to rest.
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Absolutely. I have never seen my government be so deceitful in my lifetime. If Obama gets re-elected, I’m moving to Cuba!
That’s Weisman not Wiseman sorry
If the WSJ is attacking Perry, they must doubt that he’s one of them (open borders, one world, crony capitalist). Maybe I’ll reconsider my opposition to him...
The author is clueless. A proposed regulation is the first step to become law. It carries more potential weight than a proposed law because the regulating authority has already been given the authority to regulate by congress and this is their first indication of what they intend to do and plan accordingly.
"Considering" is an understatement. Virtually all proposed regulations become final and most comments are ignored.
And anyone with an hour of government experience knows that just dropping a ‘possibility’ is the key to actual government action.
Very true. Issuing a proposed regulation in tax law is one way the IRS gets its way. There are some proposed regulations that are decades old because the IRS knows congress would overrule them. Left as a proposed regulation they serve to intimidate taxpayers into a behavior that they prefer lest someone wants to tangle with them.
I would assume that this proposed regulation would begin to cost money even before becoming final. Some farmers would want to be in compliance when the regulation is final lest they lose financing, insurance etc by being out of compliance.
I think what people miss on this is that getting to a regulation is a very formal process. It isn't a bunch of guys shooting ideas on a blackboard and doing a tour of the country with a bus to get some ideas. This is an agency that has studied the issue. Their attorneys have decided they have authority to regulate, they have drafted very detailed regulations and they have published them according to the rule making process. The comments they are seeking have nothing to do with whether to regulate. They have to do with application- the how to's not the whether to's. They already decided on the latter.
We all stray from the truth and exactitude now and then. The WSJ here is acting like a communist hypocritical maid trying to create divisions from policies and people on very little. Sometimes communists do not realize they are communists.
When, oh, when is the Obama administration going to do something about all those doctors running around chopping off innocent peoples feet, ripping out kids’ tonsils and forcing children to have Breathalyzers done against their will??!!!
Oh, the humanity!
Did you know that in Texas there is no sales tax on anything involved with agriculture.
At least he appears to know when his own and kids’ birthdays are, and what year it is. All things Obama has gotten wrong in the last few months.
Right now I am liking Perry too! I am also aghast at the “self-proclaimed “conservative” masters” and their basic ignorance regarding the vetting process.
Check this out:
“There are times when pundits stake out positions for the right reasons, and there are times when they seem to stake out positions for the sake of attention. I’ll leave readers to judge for themselves what’s going on in some of this vitriol being hurled against Perry at the moment. I wouldn’t go as far as to throw around the “fringe” label. Vetting Perry is perfectly fine and necessary; smearing him is irresponsible.
The fact is, Perry can win. The other fact is, for us over here on the Right, Perry is in many ways the man the left thought George W. Bush was. He has a real record of success. That record is attracting positive attention from people who have been adversely slammed by Obama’s reign. Those who look for the “perfect” candidate will look forever in vain. But to the extent that some spend their time tearing down perfectly solid candidates who can defeat Obama and reverse the damage he has done, they’re inadvertently doing The Won’s bidding.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/19/on-rick-perry-and-purity
I heard a talk by a professor on this tonsil statistic among other health care stuff. He sighted a study that one doctor in a state did significantly more tonsillectomies than normal. After his talk I asked him if they investigated the reasons. He said no. I asked if its possible that other doctors could have been referring them to him if he was more comfortable doing them and he said that was certainly a possibility but no one checked.
The WSJ may chuckle over this but, as most of us know, crazy rules that don’t become law because of citizen opposition have a way of becoming law, one way or another... sooner or later.
I’d like to thank Perry for publicizing yet another insane trial balloon from this administration.
LOL. Sums it up for me.
Are you a Obot or Paulite ?
Johnyy Weisman is a very well known Dem party troll from way back.
Johnny attended in secret in 2006 the Nancy Pelosi - a seminar on how to be a good left wing radical for new Dem aides and Johnny went too!
Read all about Johnny's left wing DNC background in
newsbusters
http://newsbusters.org/search/node/weisman
You trolls are swarming here
Read all about the Dem party operative.
The WSJ has gone hard left if this Pelosi troll is working there.
Read all about the Dem party operative.
The WSJ has gone hard left if this Pelosi troll is working there.
Like his executive order on deportations. He claimed and repeated that it needed to be done congressionally....then since hispanic support was sliding...he jumped up and ordered it.
Let this ruckus die down and they may decide they need to license farm equipment again.
The regulation existed. The nobama idiots were forced to take it back 3 days ago, or so now they say “3 days ago”.
In effect or not in effect, Perry was right for bringing it up. Who knows it could just as easily go back into effect next Wednesday.
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