EPA bureaucrat admits they do not consider job impact in economic analysis of rules

This is a real pace-palm moment. EPA Deputy Administrator Mathy Stanislaus sputters like an idiot and keeps saying "get back to you" when Rep. Cory Gardner (R – Colorado) pins him down on the fact EPA is supposed to do an economic analysis of rule changes, but they completely ignore job impact as part of that analysis.

House Dem on Rules: "We Make Them Up As We Go Along"

House Dem on Rules: "We Make Them Up As We Go Along." No surprise here.

Sen. Orrin Hatch: 'There Are All Kinds of Ways We Could Shut Down the Senate, and I Know Them All'

If Democrats use the reconciliation process on Obamacare and VP Joe Biden to overrule the Senate parliamentarian on amendments, he will uses every rule possible to shut down the Senate.

FOX Nation reported:

“During floor consideration of a reconciliation bill, with Biden in the chair, they will seek to bypass Republican amendments, even if the parliamentarian rules our amendments germane,”Hatch says, in an interview with National Review Online. “They want to limit debate to 20 hours, so they will use the vice president to call any amendment dilatory and overrule the parliamentarian. It would be a terrible process, and an arrogant strategy that abuses the rules and the trust of the American people. These people are so left wing, and want power so badly. If they go down that path, and pull this kind of stuff to get their way, it will blow up the Senate.”

...There are all kinds of ways we could shut down the Senate, and I know them all.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel Reams Senate Democrats For For Rules Violations

Senate Democrats are willing to do anything to ram Harry Reid's health care reform bill through Congress before Christmas. In a clear violation of senate rules, Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders violates long standing Senate rules by ending reading of his giant amendment without unanimous consent. Mitch McConnell calls the Democrats out on their dirty trick in the video posted below.

Obama makes union corruption easier

The Obama administration is rolling back rules on union finance and compensation reporting. Apparently, their desire to increase regulations on businesses does not extend to unions. The Obama administration does not think holding union leaders to reporting standards for compensation and finances is a good use of resources. Perhaps, this will make it easier to hide those large donations to Democrats and their PAC's. A few campaign contributions have make democrats forget about Jimmy Hoffa. (pictured right)
According to Washington Times,

The Obama administration, which has boasted about its efforts to make government more transparent, is rolling back rules requiring labor unions and their leaders to report information about their finances and compensation.

The Labor Department noted in a recent disclosure that "it would not be a good use of resources" to bring enforcement actions against union officials who do not comply with conflict of interest reporting rules passed in 2007. Instead, union officials will now be allowed to file older, less detailed conflict reports.

The regulation, known as the LM-30 rule, was at the heart of a lawsuit that the AFL-CIO filed against the department last year. One of the union attorneys in the case, Deborah Greenfield, is now a high-ranking deputy at Labor, who also worked on the Obama transition team on labor issues.