Sunday, October 31, 2010

An Extremely Hostile Environment

For all the folks out there who still proclaim no difference between Obama and the Republican party, just a heads up about what the GOP plans to do if they take the House.

If the GOP wins control of the House next week, senior congressional Republicans plan to launch a blistering attack on the Obama administration's environmental policies, as well as on scientists who link air pollution to climate change.

The GOP's fire will be concentrated especially on the administration's efforts to use the Environmental Protection Agency's authority over air pollution to tighten emissions controls on coal, oil and other carbon fuels that scientists say contribute to global warming.

The attack, according to senior Republicans, will seek to portray the EPA as abusing its authority and damaging the economy with needless government regulations.

In addition, GOP leaders say, they will focus on what they see as distortions of scientific evidence regarding climate change and on Obama administration efforts to achieve by executive rule-making what it failed to win from Congress.

Even if Republicans should win majorities in both the House and Senate, they would face difficulties putting their views into legislative form, since Senate Democrats could use the threat of filibuster to block bills just as the GOP did on climate and other issues during the past year.

Also, Obama could use his veto power.

But the GOP's plans for wide-ranging and sustained investigations by congressional committees could put the EPA and administration environmental policymakers on the defensive and create political pressures that could cause Obama to pull back on environmental issues as the 2012 presidential election draws closer.

In comments last week, White House officials said they are considering hiring more lawyers to the Office of Legal Counsel to gird for the possible battles ahead. Yet even with the White House running interference for the EPA and other agencies, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson conceded that a Republican anti-regulatory campaign could end up effectively hamstringing her agency's work.

The new rules EPA has issued over the last year on vehicle emissions and those expected soon for industry, Jackson said, "would be endangered by many, if not all, of the efforts we've seen to take away the agency's greenhouse gas authority."

Republicans want to do what their corporate masters bid them to do and want to start by declaring war on science and the environment.  If you believe the Republicans are going to focus on "job creation" instead of trying to get Obama impeached, grinding government services to a halt, and unwinding all the progress made in the last two years, you've got another thing coming.

We all do.

5 comments:

  1. Thanks for making my point pal.

    Repubs are just the same as Dems. Both will fuck us over. Why bother?

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  2. lesser of two evils. i happen to find the dems less odious than the repubs. do the dems make me entirely happy? no. but they at least do some things i can get behind. i understand why some feel that that's not enough and i don't expend much effort trying to convince them otherwise, but i choose to vote.

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  3. Ah, a new persona emerges from the troll gallery, the "both sides suck" voter suppression troll.

    Trolls are all shitting themselves at the signs of Teatard colony collapse syndrome.

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  4. Latest Kentucky Senate poll has Rand Paul up 15 points after "support for Conway collapses" due to the Aqua Buddha disaster.

    Another great call by Zandar, the smartest fucking pundit in the world!

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  5. i liked "anonymous" better when he called himself "fragments of credibility". well, not really. the guy is an idiot either way...November 1, 2010 at 4:47 AM

    i guess Z will commit suicide now, as he is officially the first blogger in the history of the internet to get something wrong. has he deleted the original post where he made a complete fool of himself in front of the entire world?

    what a pathetic idiot you are.

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