Friday, July 1, 2011

That press conference: Obama’s ‘Pants on Fire’

Heritage  Obama said:
What I have done — and this is unprecedented, by the way; no administration has done this before — is I’ve said to each agency, ‘Don’t just look at current regulations or don’t just look at future regulations, regulations that we’re proposing. Let’s go backwards and look at regulations that are already on the books and if they don’t make sense, let’s get rid of them.”


...."Eliminating unnecessary regulation is good policy, and with a mountain of new rules imposed in the realm of health care, banking, the Internet and the environment, the President is well advised to stop feeding the regulatory beast. But he would also be well advised not to make bold proclamations that are blatantly false, especially when he bears responsibility for the problems he claims to be solving.?

Politifact on Obama's claim. "Obama claims that his administration is doing something unprecedented -- "no administration has done this before," he said -- by having each agency review existing regulations, with an eye toward eliminating ones that don't make sense. Lots of presidents have done that. We rate Obama's statement Pants On Fire."
Will the press call him on it? What do you think?

Boortz Press Conference   "For those of you who missed my version of Barack Obama’s press conference, you’re in luck! You can listen to it right here [14:24]. Too bad Barack Obama is too busy to listen … he could stand to learn a few things."

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