pajamasmedia.com - 1/2/2009
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VERONIQUE DE RUGY notes that, Obama’s claims notwithstanding, the Bush Administration was hardly about deregulation: “Obama’s assertions to the contrary, the 43rd president was the biggest regulator since Nixon.”
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The Sundries Shack —
... from $26.4 billion to an estimated $42.7 billion, or 62 percent”. Bush has been the biggest regulator since the bad old days of Richard Nixon. Man, that’s some awesome display of “stopping regulation”! He only doubled the Clinton administration’s regulatory cost. Imagine what could have happened if he hadn’t stopped all that regulation, huh? Lord, the crap they print in the newspapers these days. What’s not blindingly obvious is laughably wrong. (via memeorandum and Instapundit )
Obama Worship: Flip Side of Bush Hatred
GayPatriot —
... Others, when pressed, have cited the deregulation of the Bush years. So, when I ask them to identify particular laws the Republican Congress enacted and the Republican President signed to deregulate the financial markets, I was met with a similar silence. Indeed, the claims of Obama and his supporters “notwithstanding, the Bush Administration was hardly about deregulation.” Bush, according to George Mason University’s Veronique de Rugy “ ...
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