...The term czar has come to mean a presidential crony appointee who was never vetted by the Senate and who exercises sweeping regulatory authority without congressional oversight. But let’s not lose sight of the vastly increased regulations issued by established agencies.

ObamaCare’s 2,000-plus pages created about 160 new agencies and boards with regulatory power. The Department of Health and Human Services just published 864 pages of regulations to govern electronic medical records.

President Obama just signed the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. Its implementation will require at least 243 new regulations by 11 federal agencies, several of which do not yet exist.

Obama’s Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, brags that under his leadership, the Department of Energy (DOE) has “accelerated the pace” of regulation and “placed new resources and emphasis behind the enforcement” of new regulations which “increase the stringency” of “minimum conservation standards” for all sorts of home appliances. Look out! The energy police are invading our homes.

In April, DOE issued a new rule that gas fireplace logs can’t use more than 9,000 BTUs per hour, which is about one-tenth of what current gas logs require. This rule will wipe out the gas fireplace industry, and the gas log in my home would become illegal.

In May, DOE effectively banned showerheads with multiple nozzles by ruling that all nozzles combined will be permitted to deliver no more than an anemic 2.5 gallons per minute. This rule will destroy upscale showers and handheld sprays used by the disabled and elderly, like the one I use.

Obama wasn’t kidding when he promised to “fundamentally transform the United States.” He has figured out how to bypass Congress and rule us by czars and a tsunami of regulations.

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