Coming soon: Tobacco, unhealthy school lunches, added pollutants, and so much more! The Republican Congress is moving fast to undo as much of President Obama’s legacy as possible, and it’s not just Obamacare, not just the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. You will have a chance to gain a whole new appreciation of how much Obama accomplished … as you watch Republicans dismantle it:
The Koch-affiliated Freedom Partners recently issued a “Roadmap to Repeal” laying out dozens of Obama-era executive actions and agency regulations it says constitutes a “unprecedented onslaught of regulatory costs on the U.S. economy.” The group has assembled a list of dozens of Obama initiatives it wants to see reversed — some can be ended with a stroke of Trump’s pen, others are still in the rulemaking process and can be withdrawn, while still others can be targeted through Congress or the courts. [...]
The House will soon move to undo several recent regulations using the 1996 Congressional Review Act, which includes fast-track procedures to skirt Senate filibusters. Targets could include the stream-protection and overtime measures, as well as regulations on aircraft greenhouse-gas emissions, appliance efficiency standards, and nondiscrimination compliance rules for federal contractors. If those efforts are successful, future presidents could be prevented from re-regulating in those areas.
Don’t miss that last part, about how “future presidents could be prevented from re-regulating in those areas.” That’s why Democrats don’t just need to be thinking about the White House in 2020. We need to be thinking about the governor’s mansions and statehouses in 2018 and redistricting in 2020, so that we can put together majorities to begin undoing all of the damage that Republicans are rushing to do right this minute.