Herman Cain's "Regulatory Reduction Commission"

[Scuba]

"The people on this commission are going to be people who know something about coal, oil, shale oil, natural gas, and they will be people whose businesses or individuals who have been abused by the EPA....like Shell Oil. I'm going to ask the CEO of Shell Oil would he like to be on this commission, and give me some recommendations."

—Herman Cain on who he would appoint to a "regulatory reduction commission" which would figure out which EPA regulations should be eliminated.







Sounds just like Dick Cheney's secret group, but with added arrogance and hubris!

[SpiralHawk]

1. "First, we is going to de-regulatize pizza." - Herman Cain (R)

"You will soon be be able to stuff your maw with Industrial Byproduct Mutant Crapola Faux Facsimile Pizza at my chain. Oh wait, I forgot. You can do that already. Oh, what the hell. Let's deregulatize anyway. Smirk. Sneer."

- Herman Cain (R)

[Sedona]

2. Sure let's put Massey Energy in charge of mine safety

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/us/20mine.html

In the first comprehensive state report on the 2010 coal mine disaster in West Virginia, an independent team of investigators has put the blame squarely on the owner of the mine, Massey Energy, concluding that it had “made life difficult” for miners who tried to address safety and built “a culture in which wrongdoing became acceptable.”

The report, released on Thursday by an independent team appointed by former Gov. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and led by J. Davitt McAteer, a former federal mine safety chief, echoed preliminary findings by federal officials that the blast could have been prevented if Massey had observed minimal safety standards.

But it was more pointed in naming Massey as the culprit, using blunt language to describe what it said was a pattern of negligence that ultimately led to the deaths of 29 miners on April 5, 2010, in the worst American mining disaster in 40 years.

“The story of Upper Big Branch is a cautionary tale of hubris,” the report concluded. “A company that was a towering presence in the Appalachian coal fields operated its mines in a profoundly reckless manner, and 29 coal miners paid with their lives for the corporate risk taking.”