What Issa Want to Destroy

 Posted by at 10:09 am  Politics
Feb 012011
 

Part of the Republican agenda for transferring wealth from poor and middle class Americans to millionaires, billionaires and criminal corporation is to seek and destroy the regulations that protect Americans. You may remember that Darrell Issa asked for help in determining which regulations to destroy. The Heritage Foundation, a Plutocon Republican think tank, have provided Issa a list.

1issaCREW got a hold of a bunch of letters to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa from trade association, industry, and think tank leaders, which identify aspects of the federal regulatory regime that they believe Issa should investigate to make life and profits easier for businesses.

The one that most neatly reflects the priorities of the conservative movement comes from the Heritage Foundation, which is asking Issa to attack decades worth of regulatory and statutory worker and consumer protections.

Here’s the laundry list:

  • Individual health insurance mandate
  • Employer health insurance mandate
  • Minimum health insurance benefit standards
  • All future Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations
  • Limiting debit card fees
  • Transparency for shareholders
  • Credit card regulation
  • Incandescent light bulb phase out
  • Broader energy efficiency standards
  • Fuel efficiency standards
  • Carbon pollution regulation
  • Auto tailpipe standard
  • Renewable fuel standards
  • Low-income housing promotion
  • Corporate accounting requirements
  • Net neutrality
  • Corporate media ownership rules
  • Dairy price controls
  • Domestic sugar subsidization

Read the whole thing here.

You might not disagree with every one of these. But it’s a broad cross-section of the current protections…

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Building these protections for Americans health, safety and finances took decades.  But the well being of US taxpayers is what the Republican party wants to destroy.

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  8 Responses to “What Issa Want to Destroy”

  1. Jerry Critter says:
    February 1, 2011 at 11:19 am

    Just another example of the republican anti-American people position. These are all items that benefit the average American. I say it again. The republicans are against the Average American Citizen.

  2. tnlib says:
    February 1, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    I saw this somewhere but didn’t stop to read it because 1 (Heritage) plus 1 (Issa) = ass-hats. Now that I’ve read it I . . . oh, pardon me, I have to go throw up.

  3. SoINeedAName says:
    February 1, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    It’s getting scary out there – and I ain’t talking about the weather. Andrew Sullivan sounds the alarm about a frightening bill enabling any president to to shutdown the Internet in a national emergency – NOT SUBJECT TO JUDICIAL REVIEW:

    Senators Lieberman and Collins are teaming up on behalf of a disgraceful bill that would give the president unprecedented power over the Internet in a national emergency. Or if there wasn’t an emergency, and the president just wanted to engage in wanton abuses of power, it would effectively enable that too, because it prohibits the court system from reviewing the decision to declare an emergency:

    The revised version includes new language saying that the federal government’s designation of vital Internet or other computer systems “shall not be subject to judicial review.” Another addition expanded the definition of critical infrastructure to include “provider of information technology,” and a third authorized the submission of “classified” reports on security vulnerabilities.

    [snip]

    The Founders gave us a system of checks and balances. Pre-emptively dismantling it is idiocy. This is the sort of legislation that ought to be anathema to the subsets of the right and left that claim to care about liberty. Perhaps they can take time away from shouting at the Koch brothers and fretting about death panels to kill it?

    There are a number of internal links in the article, so I’m only going to source the main one:
    http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/excising-the-judiciary.html

    WHAT are they thinking?!? Have the events in Egypt taught Lieberman and Snowe nothing?

    • TomCat says:
      February 2, 2011 at 5:58 am

      Nameless, I mentioned this in passing when discussing Mubarak’s cutting off the Internet. From a tech perspective, I can see the need for having the kill switch. However, it must only be used defensively to protect infrastructure under cyber-attack. It must be subject to judicial review within a very short time period. I would recommend four hours.

  4. Rick S says:
    February 2, 2011 at 9:51 am

    Is it me, or does this guy bear a spooky resemblance to Joseph Goebbels? Check it out here.

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