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Democrats are quite in the habit
of using the EPA, willy-nilly, to implement social policy, repay
environmentalist-wacko benefactors, and seize private property.
So the smell ofburning egos emanating from the Senate hearing room today is .... *sniff* ... palpable.
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head of the EPA stood firm Thursday against a chorus of congressional
criticism over his refusal to allow California and more than a dozen
other states to impose greenhouse gas reductions on cars and trucks.
"I am bound by the criteria
in the Clean Air Act, not people's opinions," EPA Administrator Stephen
L. Johnson testified to the Senate's environmental panel. It was his
first congressional appearance since issuing the controversial waiver
denial last month.
"The Clean Air Act does not require me to rubber-stamp waiver
decisions," Johnson said. "It was my conclusion that California didn't
meet the criteria, or at least all of the criteria."
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the committee chair, led committee Democrats in assailing Johnson's conclusion.
"You're going against your own agency's mission and you're fulfilling the mission of some special interests," she chided him.
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Chided? CHIDED?
Bwahaaaaaaa. California needs a federal waiver under the Clean
Air Act to implement
its first-in-the-nation tailpipe law, which would force automakers to
cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent in new cars and light trucks
by 2016. So why in hell are democrats using a U.S. Senate panel
to facilitate a California initiative? I mean, if it's that
critical, certainly they can amend the Clean Air Act themselves, right?
No, prolly can't, and even if they could, I figure, Bush would
veto it. Poor babies. And isn't it nice to find a bureaucrat with
balls? USA-UAS-USA!
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