Regulate this

Via TPM, House Minority Leader John Boehner thinks "having a moratorium on new federal regulations is a great idea."  He'd like to put this stay on for a year.

Whew.  Where to start?

It's not like making regulations is more or less the day to day business of legislators and the agencies of the federal government.  Oh wait, it is.  So Rep. Boehner wants to more or less excuse himself from, you know, working.  So he can focus on more important things - like pandering to the tea partiers and trying to get Obama out in the next presidential election.

What an ingenious stunt - I mean, bonus points for playing it like this is some sort of actual plan and not just an extension of the Republican obstructianism that's become the primary tactic of the minority party while crying foul for the President and his party to not attempting more "bipartisan outreach."

And sure, while you wouldn't be putting a moratorium on emergency regulations like those on the oil or gas industries right now (the only sane sounding thing in this jig, which probably only sounds sane because of how ridiculous the rest of it is), you want to halt any of the regulations being laid out for health care reform, or financial reform, or energy reform, or environmental reform because, of course, that's all the stuff your side had been losing on in the past 18 months.

And sure, it's not like a lack of regulations and appropriate oversight was what caused this.  Or this.  Or this.  Or any of this.

John Boehner is an "ideas man."