Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Now they want to butt into the home selling/buying process with environmental inspections! Jesus Christ!

I wrote the following to NAR today:

To the National Association of REALTORS leadership:
 
I am appalled but not surprised that the House passed this abomination of a bill. What I want to know from NAR is whether you are going to go along and support it like NAR seems to do on every big-government bill that comes along, or fight it?
 
From the Monday, June 29th Rush Limbaugh show, discussing the bill with a caller and Republican John Boehner's reading of the bill:
 
"RUSH:  Have you heard about this, folks?  When you sell your house, environmental experts have to come in and do a survey to find out if you've got leaky windows, if all the environmental systems are correct, if you have relatively new appliances, and until you modernize in the way they say, you can't sell -- that's in the bill.  I'm not kidding, Brian.  See, you can't believe it.  You can't.  It's in the bill.  It was in this amendment that Boehner read...
 
But she's right, sell your house, before you can do that, you have to pass an environmental test that some government person is going to come in and make sure you have proper storm windows and if you live in a hurricane area the inspection is even more Draconian.  You have to have modern appliances, a kitchen and that sort of thing, energy efficient TVs and this sort of stuff and until you replace all that stuff you can't sell it.  Now, normally that would be up to seller and buyer.  If the buyer wants to accept some old TVs and a kitchen that's not stainless steel, fine, you negotiate that on price.  But now it's not going to be a matter of negotiation.  Before you can be approved in selling your house, some government regulator is to come in and give you an examination. 

Now, just to illustrate how this is going to work, once again I have a piece of property that would pass inspection, right now if this were the law.  But do you think some government regulator coming into my house is going to pass me if it's the Obama administration or if it's some Democrat-run bureaucracy?  No way.  Everything is going to be political and this is how they are going to get people to switch party to become Democrat so that they're not harassed.  Folks, consequences are dire here.  And all this is happening under this umbrella of this kind soft-spoken very smart president who only wants to save our light bulbs and save the White House and save the world and who, of course, can be against that, who's for dirty air, who's for dirty water, nobody's for that when that's not at all what any of this is about."
 
It is not really necessary, is it, to point out what these provisions will do to the real estate market? That same ruined market that the government has already blown apart with their meddling? Or the insanity of having more bureaucrats running around doing these inspections? How much more will it cost, not even counting the repairs? How much time added on to an already slow process of closing? Are the banks going to be exempt? On and on with questions...
 
If the above requirements are true, and there is no reason to believe either Limbaugh or Boehner are lying about it, what is NAR going to do about it? Applaud it or fight it?
 
It should be obvious what I think should be done...

Not to mention the total invasion of a private transaction by the government...