Commentary

Surely, you recall former President Trump’s high priority of cutting costly, over-reaching regulations with his policy of eliminating two regulations for every new one.

President Biden is not only reviewing those Obama-era regulations killed by Trump, “new regulations are being rolled out at such an extreme rate that it difficult to keep up,” Paul Bedard reports in the Washington Examiner.

In the process, Biden is not only undoing Trump’s one-in, two-out policy, he has eliminated the all-encompassing regulatory oversight.

Earlier this week, while Biden was announcing his Trucking Action Plan, Vice President Harris was introducing a massive federal intervention in local schools that fall into Biden’s “whole of government” agenda that covers “equity,” “climate change,” and “competition,” embedded throughout the government and military.

As I have written before, regulations are produced by unelected bureaucrats.  Rolling back longstanding regulations requires going through a slow public notice and comment process.  New regulations don’t appear overnight.  While they may be partisan hacks, these swamp-dwellers enjoy their authority. 

With inflation, immigration, law enforcement, Biden corruption and other hot topics to address going into the midterms, I don’t expect deregulation will have a high priority, but it needs to be readdressed.

“Unsexy regulatory reform is a low priority but not entirely left out of conservative’s agendas,” notes Clyde Wayne Crews, vice president and chief regulation monitor at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.   He calls it a “non-starter” for the midterms as opposed to the presidential election.

That may be, however, candidates – especially those who supported Trump – are making a mistake if they don’t review Trump’s impressive deregulation record that benefitted low-income Americans who pay a higher share of their incomes for overregulation.  Trump claims that his effort provided the average American household an extra $3,100 a year.

In Other News

January 6, 2021 – In past posts in which I have commented on the January 6, 2021 protests in our Nation’s Capitol, I wrote about the majority of those who entered the building only wandered the halls, doing no damage.  I recall mentioning that I had viewed video footage showing Capitol police allowing individuals to walk past them.

I found it interesting to read that Mathew Martin of New Mexico was found not guilty of misdemeanor charges with the federal judge saying that Martin reasonably believed police officers allowed him in the building.

Martin, who was initially charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct, and violent entry, did not do much beyond walking into the building.  He did not dispute that he followed a crowd into the Capitol, but argued that a police officer waved him in, a defense supported by video evidence, and the judge agreed.

Trump’s teasing about running in 2024 continues, but Karl Rove, who helped organize the political action committee American Crossroads, believes his decision weighs on the outcome of candidates he endorses in April and May primaries in Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, West Virginia, Idaho and North Carolina.  His appeal will be judged by the outcomes. 

Biden’s first black female Supreme Court justice was secured with a 53-47 vote in the Senate on Thursday.  The radical Ketanji Brown Jackson will certainly tilt the Court a bit further to the left when Justice Breyer departs.  I firmly believe that Biden had planned to select J. Michelle Childs, but had his mind changed when several Republican senators spoke highly of her credentials.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.