The government shutdown has finally had a positive effect. The job-killing regulation machine has slowed down. http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/administration/326667-shutdown-halts-federal-regulations There is still some work for the shutdown to do. There were twelve pages of unneeded regs in this mornings Federal Register.
It is only temporary, but it does demonstrate that the Republic can get by just fine without 600 pages of new regs every cotton-pickin' day.
