The $64,000 Question for Obama and McCain on Climate
The new president will have the power to order the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on January 21, 2009. The question is: Will he?
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Why isn't this getting more coverage in the MSM?
Sounds like another "Brownie" moment with Repubs.
Is he a surrogate for McSame?
This is what happens when you let Republicans run the government. What did you expect?
My father helped found the EPA in the early '70s. Were he alive today, he'd be ashamed and disgusted to see what W has done to it - not that it got through the years of Reagan and both Bushes unscathed, and even the Clinton era wasn't terribly friendly to the EPA...
We must find ways to protect the EPA from political mischief.
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"refused to appear before Congress, [...snip...] he was busy."
Sounds like contempt to me.
Yeah, in a certain sense the politicization of this vital science IS treason - to life, to the people, to the values ascribed in the constitution. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite meet the definition described in the Constitution. Darn.
We need new laws that prohibit the politicization of the administration of our government. That is, making agencies lie, such as the EPA, must be against the law.
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I think that contempt requires a subpoena rather than an invitation. Maybe they can do that. Maybe monkey's will fly out of my ...
As for a Constitutional Convention,,, it's due. I think we should start with a parlimentary format, wherein the leaders of the party are selected by the representatives that are elected and if they don't perform, they don't get to last out their term. Plus VOTERS should be able to self initiate a recall election for every elected office.
Perhaps he won't explain his conclusion because he can't. When it comes to understanding science, the law and the many complex issues of facing our government, most of the Bushies are dumb as a stump, loyal as a dog, but dumb.
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