Is there something about DU that causes amnesia?

[SpartanDem]

I ask because of the response to Obama regulatory review. A lot of the responses are that this an Obama betrayal, he's a Republican or he trying to be a Republican etc. It's even harder to believe this given the regulatory actions that they taken within the last month.

Obama administration reverses Bush wilderness policy

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BN0BJ20101224

EPA To Enforce New Emission Rules On Power Plants

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/03/132612887/epa-to-enforce-new-emission-rules-on-power-plants

Obama administration cracks down on mountaintop mining

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011307095.html

CFTC Issues Proposals to Curb Speculation
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703583404576079802602556250.html

This is just within the last MONTH to say nothing of what he's done the entire time he's been in office. Anyway I might be going out a limb here, but the review could just be a review, not some nefarious plot to gut regulation in this country and that he's earned a little bit of trust.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. I don't remember exactly. n/t

[pnorman]

2. k & r!

n/t

[Fumesucker]

3. "I can't recall"

-Ronaldus Magnus

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. I'm so old...

...I remember when Al Gore did it, it was called "Reinventing Government", and most of us loved it.

[WinkyDink]

5. For me, it was the NEW use of Reagan's own words.

[SpartanDem]

6. He said regulations should protect safety, health and environment

because that was in the op-ed that Obama wrote. Doesn't sound very Reagan like to me

[ProudDad]

7. Oh, gee, I don't know. Maybe shit like this?

Obama's Deregulation Dance With Wall Street

"With a new Republican Congress falling all over itself to hand corporations whatever they want, it was only a matter of time before some politician turned up in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, breathlessly describing the "dazzling" and "path-breaking" nature of the free market, and vowing to get rid of regulations that have placed "unreasonable" burdens on businesses.

"We just didn't think it would be Barack Obama.

"But the man who couldn't give an executive order to halt dismissals of gay and lesbian members of the military has apparently issued an order to review regulations that stifle job creation, or place unreasonable restrictions on business, or—and these are his own words—are "just plain dumb."

http://www.thenation.com/blog/157884/obamas-deregulation-dance-wall-street?rel=emailNation

[The Straight Story]

8. I am not outraged when he does good things (although I have posted those articles above) (nt)

[lame54]

9. It is kinda like a soap opera