Saturday, February 25, 2012

Dem. governor claims fewer regulations under Obama than under Bush

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Colorado Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper told The Daily Caller that President Barack Obama has created fewer new business-constricting regulations that did President George. W. Bush.

TheDC had asked Hickenlooper if he and other Democratic governors asked Obama for regulatory relief when they met him Feb. 24 in the White House. “One of the statistics that is amazing is that in first three year of the Obama administration … there have been less regulations in the first three years of the administration than there were in George W Bush['s administration],” Hickenlooper told TheDC Feb. 24.

But Obama’s statements and statistics have been carefully crafted to hide his massive output of expensive regulations.

In his 2012 State of the Union speech, for example, Obama claimed that “I’ve approved fewer regulations in the first three years of my presidency than my Republican predecessor did in his.”

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