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House Minority Leader John Boehner, fresh out of a meeting with business and trade group lobbyists, announced a new idea this afternoon: A moratorium on all new federal regulations, for a year.

"I think having a moratorium on new federal regulations is a great idea it sends a wonderful signal to the private sector that they're going to have some breathing room," he said, according to Greg Sargent.

"I think there's probably a way to do this with an exemption for emergency regulations that may be needed for some particular agency or another," he said. "But if the American people knew there was going to be a moratorium in effect for a year that the federal government wasn't going to issue thousands more regulations, it would give them some breathing room."


Boehner's spokesman tells TPMDC that his boss doesn't mean for his moratorium to apply to the oil & gas industry. That, he said, would fall under the emergency exemption.

Thousands of new regulations, passed by Congress or by administrative agencies, go into effect every year. There are 300 federal agencies that pass regulations. They include the FDA, the TSA, the FBI, Customs and Border Protection, Veterans Affairs and every branch of the military.

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July 16, 2010 3:11 PM   

Is this guy for real?

But hey, according to the firebaggers, Democrats and Republicans are exactly alike.

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July 16, 2010 3:41 PM    in reply to FreeRider

Totally. Nail meet coffin.

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July 17, 2010 6:14 AM    in reply to Shrubbit

"Democrats and Republicans are exactly alike"

LOL, as if! First off, the Congressional Republigoons are just trying to get in the way of everything and anything Obama's trying to do to this country, dissing his SCOTUS nominees, filibustering the Democratic majority, and the worst part is the way they toss around blame! Oh, an oil spill, must be Obama's fault, or Lost another million jobs, must be Obama's fault!

Can you imagine for a moment the Democrats running around blaming everything from Katrina to 9/11 on Bush!? Never happened!

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July 17, 2010 5:29 PM    in reply to Seismedia

Great point, troll.

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July 16, 2010 6:46 PM    in reply to FreeRider

Seems like a speech designed to obtain campaign contributions from businesses.
Thanks Citizen United and certain "activist" Supreme Court judges!

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July 16, 2010 3:26 PM   

breathing room for what!!!???

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July 16, 2010 3:48 PM    in reply to Viva!America!

For that nice smoggy air.

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July 16, 2010 3:27 PM   

Uhh...thanks, but no thanks, Boner.

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July 16, 2010 3:34 PM   

I'll bet he wants to get PAID for sitting motionless like a lump of shit during those 12 months....

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July 16, 2010 4:15 PM    in reply to Mr. Benchley

well, he and the rest of the repugs have already been doing that since Obama became president.

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July 17, 2010 1:58 PM    in reply to Mr. Benchley

Not to take idiot Boehner's side here, but Congress doesn't promulgate regs, so a moratorium on new regs would probably have no effect on his workload.

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July 16, 2010 3:43 PM   

Jeez. At least when Newt shut down the Federal government, he worked tireless to cry and whine and obstruct out of a petty personal grievance.

It takes real chutzpah to try to shut down the government before your party even gets into power. And to RUN on a platform of:

"Vote Republican! We'll shut down the Federal government!"

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July 16, 2010 5:11 PM    in reply to EnnuiDivine

Yes, heaven forbid anyone would deal with the problems of 40 million Americans without access to affordable health care, a near collapse of the financial system, and unprecedented destruction of the environment. We wouldn't want Boehner to miss a golf match or a cocktail party and we wouldn't want Wall street to miss a payday.

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July 16, 2010 6:18 PM    in reply to EnnuiDivine

That's been their platform since Reagan!

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July 16, 2010 3:44 PM   

What do they need legislators for, then? To pry into our bedrooms, yes, but what else?

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July 16, 2010 3:48 PM   

Meetings with lobbyists for corporate special interests, a call for no new regulations, and some pictures of oily wildlife and the near collapse of Wall Street: the commercial nearly writes itself.

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July 16, 2010 4:22 PM    in reply to ericf

Be sure that commercial also includes shots of bodies being brought up from the Upper Big Branch mine explosion and blocks of homes with foreclosure signs on them.

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July 16, 2010 3:51 PM   

I have a suggestion for the Orange One. One year moratorium on regulations.... Okay Arizona.. you go first.

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July 16, 2010 3:55 PM   

And there you have it folks.

Just the latest example of the dominant Republican ideology for the decade in action. Clown Nihilism, I call it. The advocacy of facile, cartoonishly buffoonish policy proposals in furtherance of their ultimate goal of utterly destroying the federal government.

Their party is dying, along with their imaginary vision of Real America, the America where everyone is just like them, but amid the thrashing of their final death spasm, they're by-God determined to take the rest of the country down with them.

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July 16, 2010 4:00 PM   

Ok John, give em hell! Let's especially not have any new regs from the FAA, damn that airplane safety anyway. Nothing from the FDA either, take those new cancer drug evaluations and shove them, we dont need government telling us we could die from the side affects and who needs regulations for our food supply anway? Who needs the TSA? Oh, I forgot, set up by Republicans. And heaven forbid if the FBI decides it needs new ways to fight crime and/terrorism. Let's keep all those agencies on the sidelines.

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July 16, 2010 4:01 PM   

Exactly the kind of thinking one expects from a drunk.

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July 16, 2010 4:02 PM   

I'll bet he wants to get PAID for sitting motionless like a lump of shit during those 12 months....

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July 16, 2010 4:07 PM   

Seriously, was he drunk when he came up with this? Because it's crazy.

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July 16, 2010 4:08 PM   

Oh wow. Let's make a new regulation to forbid any new regulations for a year. Hey, this won't work will it? Problem solved.

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July 16, 2010 4:08 PM   

Once again, the GOP keeps trying combination's until they find one that might work for them. But yeah, Newt tried essentially this same thing back in the 90's. Worked out great for them back then also!!

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July 16, 2010 4:14 PM    in reply to CityGuy

Newt never proposed anything nearly so foolish, and he wouldn't today. He simply played chicken with Clinton over the budget. And lost.

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July 16, 2010 4:20 PM    in reply to CityGuy

Trying combinations sounds like someone trying to open a padlock.

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July 16, 2010 4:29 PM    in reply to jeffgee

Well they've certainly unlocked the racism on the far Right!

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July 16, 2010 5:02 PM    in reply to CityGuy

As you may recall, Newt spent about two hours running around taking credit for shutting down the government--and the rest of his tenure in office claiming that Bill Clinton had done it.

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July 16, 2010 5:03 PM    in reply to CityGuy

As you may recall, Newt spent about two hours running around taking credit for shutting down the government--and the rest of his tenure in office claiming that Bill Clinton had done it.

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July 16, 2010 7:33 PM    in reply to Mr. Benchley

There's an echo in here.

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July 16, 2010 4:09 PM   

Wow, no government regs at all. Who would have thought that Boehner was really an ANARCHIST!!

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July 16, 2010 4:10 PM   

Anyone else find it just a tad ironic that the party who ridicules the unemployed for being "lazy" and wanting to "get paid for doing nothing", are basically proposing that they, as legislators, get paid for doing nothing?

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July 16, 2010 4:11 PM   

Yeah, then the republi-can'ts wouldn't need to filibuster and could hang out in their lobbyist's man-caves until this minority party thing blows over.

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July 16, 2010 4:12 PM   

isn't another party around to take advantage of the GOP stupidity??.....but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to happen!

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July 16, 2010 4:16 PM   

I think having a moratorium on new federal regulations is a great idea...

Because it worked so well for Newt Gingrich...

it sends a wonderful signal to the private sector that they're going to have some breathing room

The poor darlings just have not caught up with the ton of regulation that has been pouring out of Washington for the past 10 years. NOT!

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July 16, 2010 4:17 PM   

And, of course, if the economy doesn't improve, they'll blame Obama for not doing what they said and cutting taxes and regulation for the have-mores, ignoring the fact that it didn't work when the GOP and Bush tried it before.

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July 16, 2010 4:19 PM   

Don't worry - the Republicans will still get plenty of legislating done. Everything that they want to do will be an "emergency", just like every year of the Shrub wars was paid for with an "emergency appropriation".

Either that, or they want to have the schedule clear so they can spend the next two years trying to impeach Obama - the reason's not important, just the circus.

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July 16, 2010 4:20 PM   

At least Boehner is consistent.

What's his motive? Developing and enforcing meaningful government regulations takes time, thought, and hard work. These requirements are something the rich Republicans like Boehner try to avoid at all consequence....they don't like to work hard.

Just saying no, no, no also means Boehner will have more time to hang out at the martini bar and work on his alcohol induced tan. Boehner is an alcoholic.....they don't tend to be very productive members of society. Boehner needs counseling.

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July 16, 2010 4:21 PM   

But wait - since emergency regulations aren't affected, who's going to write the regulations about what constitues an emergency and what doesn't?

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July 16, 2010 4:29 PM   

Johnny Boy has been mercifully spared the ravages of intelligence.

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July 16, 2010 4:29 PM   

He's feeding the meme of liberal/socialist over-regulation. He has no intention of following through on this.

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July 16, 2010 4:31 PM   

Funny ting is, the only real businesses that crave this "breathing room" are massive and do tons of business WITH the federal government. These Republicans talk all this trash about small business and small government, but unless small business is getting some sweetheart government hand out or tax break, they are almost totally self regulating.

Homebuilders, electricians, roofers, pavers, heating and ventilating contractors, etc.,etc, have almost zero occasion to think about the federal regulations, They pay taxes off tables that have barely changed in years, code changes are almost all done by state or municipality and usually with industry members sitting on the boards.

Someone should challenge Boner to name one businessperson who can name a specific potential regulation that's preventing expansion or hiring. Why do we argue with these dicks, why not just ask them to tell us what they are actually saying.

They have no point, but we reflexively disagree ideologically and engage in a totally phony, inconsequential argument. Sure it's preposterous to stop all legislative activity, but before we even talk about it we should at least make these pukes say what their proposed idiocy is supposed to accomplish. It's like me proposing a moratorium on police talking to people on the street in order to improve the problems of crime and homelessness. And then blaming ALL crime and homelessness on the people who argue with my idiotic idea.

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July 16, 2010 4:37 PM   

What do they need legislators for, then? To pry into our bedrooms, yes, but what else?

To "hike the Appalachian Trail". What would we do without sex scandals?

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July 16, 2010 4:44 PM   

There is only 1 emergency regulation needed and that is: Tell this A$$hold to shut up.

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July 16, 2010 4:45 PM   

"I think having a moratorium on new federal regulations is a great idea . . .

. . . because the moratorium on business regulation from January 2001 to January 2009 worked so well.

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July 17, 2010 1:12 AM    in reply to MollyNYC

Thread winner. Hands down.

That should be the bumper sticker. Democrats, anyone listening? This is the argument in a nutshell.

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July 16, 2010 4:46 PM   

One year moratorium on tanning salons.

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July 16, 2010 4:51 PM   

Meanwhile, the Obama administration has reached out to the Business Roundtable asking for suggestions on existing federal regulations to eliminate. The list they got was 54 pages long. Both parties are run by corporatists.

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July 16, 2010 5:42 PM    in reply to rmwarnick

Obama's approach sounds a lot more constructive and reasonable than just calling for a moratorium on all regulations.

You know it is possible that not all government regulations are helpful, especially in the midst of a economic crisis of this scale.

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July 16, 2010 5:04 PM   

I think all that time in the tanning bed has fried Boner's brain.....

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July 16, 2010 5:04 PM   

How about if all republican congresspersons take a year of paid vacation to give the nation "some breathing room" from their political strategy of obstruction?

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July 16, 2010 5:16 PM    in reply to Chris Brown

Well said, you beat me to it.

And if we're not better off in a year, they're welcome to come back.

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July 16, 2010 5:37 PM   

Wait!! Stop everything!! Obama is getting too much done!!! Let's give Bonehead the rest of his life off!!!

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July 16, 2010 5:49 PM   

Hahahaha!!! These guys are counting their chickens before they are hatched. This Boehner guy is already acting like the Speaker-elect. He's gonna learn a hard lesson the day after November elections.

Nancy Pelosi would still remain the speaker of the House After November.

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July 16, 2010 9:39 PM    in reply to lester

Jesus, Lester, keep it down. You'll wake up Old Atlantic!

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July 16, 2010 5:56 PM   

Tan tan tan dan orange tan orange see our tan.

Tan orange...is this real what is the deal?

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July 16, 2010 6:09 PM   

holy crap, the repubs are consistently out dumbing themselves. Between the half term halfwit and Bachman it's not seeming like a race. Boener has now taken the lead with this one. Does he even think before he opens his mouth? Seriously?

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July 16, 2010 6:30 PM   

Boehner should propose this at the State level in Ohio, try it out for a year, and let us know how it goes.

Sorry Ohio, for this idea and for having an a-hole senator.

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July 16, 2010 6:39 PM   

Remember the 4 D's of the Republican strategy with respect to any and all reform/regulation legislation: Delay, Distract, Distort, Deceive.

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July 16, 2010 7:13 PM   

Just when you think The Incredible Tall Box of Tropicana Orange Juice couldn't kill off either the brains of retarded Americans or his own for that matter, he manages to take it a step further. No new regs, huh? Obviously, he forgets the fact that regulations, in times like these, are vital in order to recover receding economies. Then again, this is the same 'tard who considered a spending freeze last year so it comes as no surprise, really.

Furthermore, it only proves that the Republicans want election and a Congressional seat only because they know their policies are in line with the interests of the status quo. Then, they drag said policies (which, quoting Bill O'Really here, are often steeped in bitterness and failure) as so-called Talking Points on Fox News that are propagated day and night, 24/7/365, and when a liberal/progressive tries to challenge those viewpoints, they slander him without comprehending consequence or second thought or apology.

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July 16, 2010 7:33 PM   

Bottom of the barrel, man. Bottom of the barrel.

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July 16, 2010 8:24 PM   

John thinks corpse-rapers need 'breathing room'.

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July 16, 2010 8:55 PM   

This is a dog whistle.

Translation: we will free up the schedule so that we have plenty of time for tall the impeachin' we have planned.

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July 16, 2010 8:56 PM   

This is a dog whistle.

Translation: we will free up the schedule so that we have plenty of time for tall the impeachin' we have planned.

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July 16, 2010 11:57 PM   

And these are the guys that are supposed to hand the Dems their hats in November??? Man, I hope all those talking heads making that prediction are wrong. Otherwise, we're in for a rough time. I always thought the book of Revelations in the Bible was interesting reading, but not prophetic. I don't know, now I'm not so sure!!

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July 17, 2010 6:18 AM   

Perhaps the police should have a moratorium on arresting people, think of all the money we would save not to mention solving the prison overcrowding problem.

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July 17, 2010 8:39 AM   

Hey boner boy!
How about we have a permanent moratorium on your ass you stinking piece of excrement.
The people of Ohio are as dumb as dirt.

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July 17, 2010 7:16 PM   

Boehner meets with business and trade group LOBBYISTS. He then says that "the American people" would have some "breathing room" if federal regs governing business transactions were postponed for one year. These lobbyists don't represent the American people. And their clients don't care about the American people either. They're the ones who want "breathing room." The regs directly affect them from making financially unsound transactions. Boehner has the audacity to conflate the best interests of business with those of the American people! Go figure! Off with his head, I say.

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July 17, 2010 11:20 PM   

Boehner is a perplexing being. It is amazing that he can walk upright without dragging his knuckles on the ground. Can this man get any more stupid? I wonder how the folks in his district can support him for office. What a MORON!!!!

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July 18, 2010 6:01 AM   

What a Wuss.

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July 18, 2010 9:58 AM   

Where was Boehner between 2001-2009 when GWB was the Pres?
That was 8 years of ineffective governance.

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July 18, 2010 10:24 AM    in reply to BrightLightsBigCity

He was right there, cheering along.

Funny you did not hear deficits nor spending then. Nor the tea people and their talk.

Wonder why?

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