The search for the meaning of last week’s election returns has yielded many theories to account for why people voted for the party out of power and against incumbents. Sure is a mystery, there. What could possibly be behind such random voter behavior? There must be clues, somewhere, carved into stone. Angry men. Apathetic women. Frustrated youths. Frightened seniors … take your pick.
Well, whatever the answer, the people still in power are reading it as a clear mandate to ram more government regulations down the throats of the voters. As Tim Devaney of The Hill reports:
Business groups are bracing for an onslaught of regulations, with the Obama administration bent on completing a host of the president’s unfinished policy goals and the midterm elections now in the rearview mirror. Agencies across federal government are expected to drop a host of major rules over the next few months, with regulations running the gamut from calorie label requirements on restaurant menus to new rules for hydraulic fracturing and air pollution.
This must be what is known, around the Beltway, as “getting stuff done.”
