House Minority Leader John Boehner [the man who would be Speaker should Republicans manage to re-take the House in the mid-terms]… endorsed the REINS Act, sponsored by Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY), which states that "any rulemaking where the estimated cost to Americans would exceed $100 million," could not go into effect "without Congress voting on it first." That's short of the full moratorium for which Boehner initially called, but could nonetheless be a recipe for gridlock and ugly politics. That standard in the act would ensnare scores of new regulations every year, including both broadly popular, time-sensitive ones, and others over which remain substantial partisan disagreement.
Republicans hate good government and when they are in power they actively loot and demolish it, and when they are out of power they obstruct good government however they can. Given that they endlessly literally declare that this is their "principled" stance, their whole "philosophy," it is puzzling that so few seem to take seriously the possibility that they always govern so abominably because they disdain the desirability, indeed the very notion, of doing otherwise. No doubt, by the way, the enormously clever symbolism of denominating this anti-governmental sledghemmer "REINS" (we Republicans are "reigning in" the DemocRAT commienazis and that black furriner who stoleded our country!) is not exactly lost on anybody.
Wherever government is meant to be of by and for the people, to be anti-government always means to be against the people.
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