Debate Analysis: Did Regulation Quadruple Under Obama? The Numbers Say Yes

Posted by Raw Editor on October 26, 2012 in politics | ∞

Regulatory policy made a cameo appearance in last night’s presidential debate when Governor Mitt Romney took aim at the Obama Administration’s penchant for making rules.

“Regulations have quadrupled,” Romney said. “The rate of regulations quadrupled under this President.”

The assertion led to a mini-controversy this morning over the Obama regulatory record. Left-leaning blogger Andrew Sullivan, Salon.com, and the Huffington Post all jumped in to argue that there has been no such increase in regulation. Obama, in fact, has imposed fewer new regulations than did Bush, they claim.

But they are wrong, and Romney was right.

via Debate Analysis: Did Regulation Quadruple Under Obama? The Numbers Say Yes.

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