how is this a thing. Government is not a closet with too many clothes.

For practical purposes this is like his immigration policy (at least as implemented in the current travel ban)- an arbitrary order based on misleading rhetoric that will have real, unintended consequences.
This whole concept of regulations = bad is just as broad and reckless as Muslims = terrorists.

Also, related:
Trump transition leader’s goal is two-thirds cut in EPA employees.
So yeah, that should take care of a bunch of pesky regulations right there.
(Even if they stay on the books, what good are regulations if no one is around to enforce them?)

If you strike three regulations, you're out, because a regulation in time saves nine. Once regulated twice shy. It's math, people. Simple math.

Hey! Don't look a gift regulation in the mouth.

I don't think this is about simplifying bureaucracy, or even bending it towards campaign promises. Multiple Orders a day, each with significant impact on whole government organizations, many such organizations are lacking appointments to leadership, strikes me as flooding the government until it is paralyzed.

The phrase "denial-of-service attack" comes to mind.

I thought same, but am trying to phrase my ideas differently so it maybe isn't as easy to tie my identities together.

This is just about getting fawning adoration from the kind of people who'd never think to repeal regulation X and regulation Y and replace them with regulation X Y Z.

This sounds crazy. Regulations are rules, they're actions that we don't want to take place, right? We passed these regulations because we saw abuse or the potential for it or whatever.

But what would you say to this proposal if we replaced the word "regulations" with "crimes", and you say for every new crime you would like to establish you must decriminalize two criminal acts. I think that a lot of crimes are just that for good reason, but no one is eager to give robbers or murderers or physical abusers a break and lessen the consequences for their actions. Although Russia did re-legalize domestic violence so...

Isn't an Executive Order, in the technical sense, just a regulation?

No, because we don't call it that.

There's also a draft executive order that would require the Census to ask people about their citizenship and immigration status. If you don't want people filling their Census forms, this is a sure way to get it done.

Which has the added benefit of allowing even greater gerrymandering. Win-win for the bad guys.

Wow. Exhilarating.

Anybody got a Kleenex?

Wait, wait. Hey Samepride, did you see this?


A GOP Regulatory Game Changer
Legal experts say that Congress can overrule Obama regulations going back to 2009.