COMMENTARY | I recently received quite a deceptive e-mail -- reposted for rating on Word Press "Point/Counter Point," from Jen O'Malley Dillon, the deputy campaign manager for Obama for America. It was titled, "Getting the Facts Straight on Regulation." Unfortunately, her facts are wrong.
"Yesterday," O'Malley Dillon informed me, "a Bloomberg News analysis found that the Obama administration has passed fewer regulations than George W. Bush had at this point in his presidency."
Assuming I wouldn't actually read the article, what O'Malley Dillion avoided telling me was Bloomberg concluded Obama's "fewer regulations" are still "expected to cost businesses between $100 million and $4.1 billion more" than those of Bush.
"On top of that," O'Malley Dillon further obfuscated, "they've come at far lower costs to the economy than the annual high mark for regulatory costs set by the first President Bush."
What she carefully leaves out of the equation is that -- just as Obama is using executive orders to bypass Congress to push the American Jobs Act agenda rejected by his Democrat controlled Senate -- the president has bypassed Congress to push his business-strangling regulations through such external government agencies as the Environmental Protection Agency.
According to an analysis by the Institute for Energy Research, the EPA is "leading the Obama administration's assault on coal with a number of new regulations."
Two of the most costly regulations are the "transport rule" and the "toxics rule," otherwise known as Utility MACT.
"Combined," the IER concludes, "these regulations will systematically reduce access to affordable and reliable energy."
While still an Illinois senator, Barack Obama explained his plans to put a cap and trade system in place that would be "more aggressive than anybody's out there" to "generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches."
In other words, by way of stiff and expensive regulations Obama planned to intentionally put existing affordable energy companies out of business to push his undeveloped and therefore costly green agenda," which he himself admitted would cause "electricity costs to necessarily skyrocket."
Unable to pass legislation through Congress to bankrupt energy producing companies and raise electricity rates, which would most severely hit the poorest Americans, Obama has carefully assembled the following "Plan-B"army to surreptitiously accomplish his goals.
Lisa Jackson, man-made global warming activist is Obama's pick to head the EPA.
Nancy Sutley, man-made global warming activist from California, is chair of the Council on Environmental Quality.
Jackson and Sutley combined forces to revoke the mining permit for Arch Coal's Spruce Mine No. 1 in Logan County, W.Va., which contributes 16 percent of America's coal supply.
Obama's energy secretary, Steven Chu, is under investigation for his part in the on-going and every expanding Solyndra scandal.
Carol Browner was Obama's "energy czar." She was head of the EPA from 1993 to 2000 during the Clinton administration.
"One of the things I'm the proudest of at EPA," Browner once praised herself, "is the work we've done to expand the public's right to know."
In 2003, Federal District Judge Royce Lamberth held Browner and the EPA in contempt of court for violating his order not to destroy computer files regarding rules enacted during her last days in office.
Unable to push her global warming agenda upon an increasingly skeptical public as Obama's energy czar, Browner resigned in January.
Chu is keeping a low profile these days and will likely become Obama's Solyndra scapegoat. But Jackson and Sutley are still around, skulking through the regulation shadows.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant," Obama warned back in 2008, "they can. It's just that [my economic plan] will bankrupt them."
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