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Friday, January 28, 2011

BREAKING: In a stunning reversal, USDA chief Vilsack greenlights Monsanto’s alfalfa | Grist

BREAKING: In a stunning reversal, USDA chief Vilsack greenlights Monsanto’s alfalfa | Grist: "Government regulation of corporate practices has apparently been much on President Obama's mind lately. He recent penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed vowing to review federal regulations to make sure they weren't too onerous on business. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he illustrated his concern about the complexity of federal regulation by pointing out that two different agencies regulate wild salmon. 'And when it's smoked, I understand it gets really complicated,' he added. Ha, ha.

In other words, Obama is trying to establish himself as an eminently reasonable, pro-business sort of president -- you know, not the sort of fellow who would let things like the Wall Street banking meltdown, the Upper Big Branch coal-mine disaster, the BP oil spill, or any other notorious lapse in government oversight stand in the way of the business of doing business."

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