President Obama made a joke in the State of the Union address — or rather, an attempted joke that fell flat:
I’ve ordered every federal agency to eliminate rules that don’t make sense. We’ve already announced over 500 reforms, and just a fraction of them will save business and citizens more than $10 billion over the next five years. We got rid of one rule from 40 years ago that could have forced some dairy farmers to spend $10,000 a year proving that they could contain a spill – because milk was somehow classified as an oil. With a rule like that, I guess it was worth crying over spilled milk.
The House was audibly filled with a mix of silence, mild groaning, and perhaps a very small amount of chuckling.
