"The EPA can go to Hell, and I will go to Texas"

[unixronin]

A Tenth Amendment Center article talks about the EPA trying to impose failed Washington DC policies in place of working Texas ones.

“Evidently, Texas’ success in improving both our environment and our economy, while Washington still argues about how to accomplish either, is something that EPA and the administration finds troubling.”

(Bill Hammond, president of the Texas Association of Business)

Comments

[milktree.livejournal.com]

Nothing in that article addressed what the EPA is doing, or how Texas is doing it better. It reads like an anti-federal rant.

I'm not saying he's wrong, just that there's a lot of stuff missing if the author has any intention of convincing anyone who doesn't already agree with him.

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

Sadly, this doesn't surprise me. Like many other administrations, this one seems hell-bent on doing over and over and over -- and making others do things the same way -- that have been proved by endlessly repeated experience not to work. People are mad.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

The good side of that is that a growing number of voters (over 60% now, I think) are mad enough to favor just throwing ALL the bums out and electing a congress NONE of whom have ever held office in Congress before, a complete fresh Congress without the entrenched power blocs.

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

The good side of that is that a growing number of voters (over 60% now, I think) are mad enough to favor just throwing ALL the bums out and electing a congress NONE of whom have ever held office in Congress before, a complete fresh Congress without the entrenched power blocs.

About time. Of course, most of the er, outcumbents would have learned nothing from that, but as they wouldn't be coming back to their old jobs, no harm done. And the fact that both major parties suffered equally as a result would shut up 95% of the conspiracy theorists, too (the remaining 5% would, of course, people the moonbats who nobody listens to, not even themselves).

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

The good side of that is that a growing number of voters (over 60% now, I think) are mad enough to favor just throwing ALL the bums out and electing a congress NONE of whom have ever held office in Congress before, a complete fresh Congress without the entrenched power blocs.

A worrisome thought: On the other hand, that's how the Nazis got into power originally -- nobody knew who were they were or what they were like, they just knew the National Socialists would be different, and considering what recent earlier German administrations had been like and the war reparations France was getting from them, you can't blame them. History handed them a ringer. Their own fault is that once they realized what they had there, they didn't throw those bums out -- except that by then, the Stormtroopers had already formed up, and people didn't dare.