Anchors Aweigh

With the Obama administration now focusing on jobs, and with the forthcoming introduction of a jobs bill in Congress (or yet another stimulus bill, depending on semantics), it would seem the Democrats would be against any sort of policy initiatives that would stifle economic growth. But that does not seem to be the case.

Today marks the final day for comment on a little noticed ocean policy change the Obama administration is pushing. In what is called the “Interim Report of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force,” the administration is proposing a major power grab that would seek to regulate and actually “zone” the oceans, in a way that hasn’t been done before by the U.S. government.