Lame duck Obama’s mad scramble: Whatever happened to leaving office gracefully?
December 28, 2016 | John R. Smith | Print Article
There is a big mess brewing. The lame-duck Obama administration has launched a mad scramble to throw up as many hurdles, and to plant as many last-minute land mines as possible against the new American president. In his final days of office, Barack Obama has initiated a major flurry of new executive orders, directives and regulations, thousands of them, that he is piling into the federal books.
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Politico reported a year ago that Obama, the epitome free-lunch politician, would be opening the floodgates for about 4,000 new regulations in his last year in office. The rules being imposed at this late date are known as “midnight regulations”, and are mostly related to Obama proposals that have so far been rejected or ignored by Congress. So, this president has decided to “shove (them) down the nation’s gullet”, as reported by the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel. Midnight regulations are defined as those being promulgated by an outgoing president between Election Day and Inauguration Day of a new president.
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