Seriously, what other conclusion can you draw?
I’ve been looking for a link to this story, but somehow I can’t find it. It seems that, according to the AP, “the Senate yesterday narrowly turned back a challenge to the Bush Administration’s strategy on mercury pollution, leaving intact federal rules that give power plants flexibility on how they reduce emissions of this dangerous element”.
The vote was 51-47 to uphold the rules, though the bottom line remains that Bushco will turn a blind eye while the environment continues to be fouled by its friends in industry. You don’t even ask if Scumbag Santorum voted to overturn the federal rules, but the problem to me is that Arlen Specter, for the second time in two days, cowered before the Bushco altar, as it were, and caved (yesterday, he voted to opposed the Katrina Commission) by not voting to overturn the rules also.
And then, as if to add insult to injury, red-state knucklehead Jim "Outraged By The Outrage Over Abu Ghraib" Inhofe makes this pronouncement.
“In reality, this is a political exercise in futility,” Inhofe, the chairman of the Environment and Public Works committee, said (my note: the fact that Inhofe has been granted the power to do anything more significant than manage a fruit stand is proof positive to me that, indeed, “The Four Horsemen” are saddling up). “Who in this chamber would truly believe that the President would sign legislation to repeal his own administration’s rule?”
Who indeed?
Well, Sen. Inhofe, since you think it is fine to continue to pollute our water with mercury (and I know you firmly believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that global warming is just some scheme concocted by “environmental extremists” despite Katrina’s devastation), I think you may be interested in reading this (of course, there’s a lot of text and some big, medical sounding words thrown in, so you may need a couple of people to help you).
God, this state elected both Inhofe and Tom Coburn (who was too busy doing his crossword puzzle to pay attention to the mundane details of the John Roberts confirmation hearings) to the Senate. Am I being too unkind if I wonder if residents of this state should be allowed to breed?
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