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If you’re unemployed, there’s no such thing as a Republican job or a Democratic job. You just desperately need a paycheck, and you expect elected officials of both parties to put aside their differences and work together to help you get it.

President Obama appeared to show on January 18 that he recognizes this, when he announced he has ordered a review to identify federal regulations that can be eliminated because they hinder economic growth and job creation.

While defending some regulations, the president wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that, “[W]e are also making it our mission to root out regulations that conflict, that are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb.”

Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hasn’t gotten the message, even though its efforts to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases meet the three standards that President Obama set for bad regulations.

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