Judge Slaps Down Obama Adm.'s Collective Punishment

[teflor the ranger]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65L4UI20100622

Federal judge issues restraining order against the Obama administration's attempt at collective punishment.

[kiryan]

Interesting, but I don't see what laws the judge is basing his decision on. The government has been practicing the authority to regulate this industry and many others in the name of public safety. The power is arbitrrary by nature. but I guess if they can arbitrarily decide that "enough" environmental impact hasn't been considered, they can decide enough economic considerations have been considered... This is of course ridiculous on both sides imo.

in other arbitrary collective punishment news, Obama Says Health Law Shouldn’t Be Excuse to Raise Rates. To unjustifably raise rates. Obama, whats unjustifiable about raising rates in response to a law that is touted to change everything and probably dramatically affect your revenue. Not to mention that the unwritten convuluted self serving rules, being imposed by the now god like HHS czar. THe riskier a business is the more you charge and Democrats are making this the riskiest regulatory environment ever seen... It comes down to obey us or we will punish you regulatorily and financially. Oh and the risk pricing, thats despite the normal 10% rise in medical costs that the administration did very little to address. The sad part is even when this all blows up, Democrats will blame industry for failing their decisions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/healt ... th.html?hp

[Ragorn]

Damn conservative activist judges!!

[teflor the ranger]

The ineffective thuggery of the Obama administration results in: still spilling oil into the gulf.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/polit ... 84389.html

Then there is Obama's decision to impose a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf. This penalizes companies with better safety records than BP's and will result in many advanced drilling rigs being sent to offshore oil fields abroad.
The justification offered was an Interior Department report supposedly "peer reviewed" by "experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering." But it turned out the drafts the experts saw didn't include any recommendation for a moratorium. Eight of the cited experts have said they oppose the moratorium as more economically devastating than the oil spill and "counterproductive" to safety.

This was blatant dishonesty by the administration, on an Orwellian scale. In defense of a policy that has all the earmarks of mindless panic, that penalizes firms and individuals guilty of no wrongdoing and that will worsen rather than improve our energy situation. Ineffective thuggery.

Teflor sez: peer reviewed experts in what? Thanks for the lies, Obama administration.

[Sarvis]

:roll:

[teflor the ranger]

The Obama Administration disrespects and circumvents US Federal Courts by issuing a reworded ban after the initial ban was struck down:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10387830

"Having gotten its knuckles rapped by a federal district court judge, then an appeals court panel, the administration this week opted for a phony-baloney "new" order that would still ban drilling until Nov. 30. In fact, some industry experts think the new version may be more harmful -- and inclusive -- than the old one because it attempts to ban drilling technologies that are in use in shallow waters as well as on deep-water rigs."

http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=207293