You Won’t Believe What the White House Did to Help Secure Obama’s Re-Election

A troubling new report from the Washington Post, released this weekend, found that President Obama’s White House “systematically delayed enacting a series of rules on the environment, worker safety and health care to prevent them from becoming points of contention before the 2012 election.”

Translation: President Obama deliberately deceived the American people about his real agenda in order to secure his re-election last year.

This new report marks a long fall from grace from a White House that promised to be the most transparent in history. The Obama Administration owes it to the voters to be honest about its big government, red tape agenda. Instead, it appears even the White House knew its own policies were unpopular enough to threaten his re-election! If even the White House doesn’t have faith in Obama’s liberal agenda, why should the voters?

House Republicans have – from the beginning – been forward about their efforts to fight President Obama’s and the Democrats’ liberal agenda. Democrats, meanwhile, continue to hide.

From the Washington Post:

The White House systematically delayed enacting a series of rules on the environment, worker safety and health care to prevent them from becoming points of contention before the 2012 election, according to documents and interviews with current and former administration officials.

Some agency officials were instructed to hold off submitting proposals to the White House for up to a year to ensure that they would not be issued before voters went to the polls, the current and former officials said.

The delays meant that rules were postponed or never issued. The stalled regulations included crucial elements of the Affordable Care Act, what bodies of water deserved federal protection, pollution controls for industrial boilers and limits on dangerous silica exposure in the workplace.

The Obama administration has repeatedly said that any delays until after the election were coincidental and that such decisions were made without regard to politics. But seven current and former administration officials told The Washington Post that the motives behind many of the delays were clearly political, as Obama’s top aides focused on avoiding controversy before his reelection.

The number and scope of delays under Obama went well beyond those of his predecessors, who helped shape rules but did not have the same formalized controls, said current and former officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.