The Quiet Revolution

[mercurychaos]

These days, liberals don’t know whether to feel betrayed by or merely disappointed with Barack Obama. They have gone from decrying his willingness to remove the public option from his health care plan to worrying that, in the wake of Democrat Martha Coakley’s defeat in Massachusetts, he won’t get any plan through Congress. On other subjects, too,

Comments

[yunghustlaz]

It's good to note though, as a counter-point, that Obama is cutting the EPA's budget this year.

[haruhiko]

I was going to say. My first thought was: "How does one 'rebuild a battered institution' by cutting its budget? O_o" Especially after the way that institution was gutted over the past decade.

[sitakhet]

I came in for the title.

Québec did it first, USA. ;D

[speaker]

I work in Air Pollution regulation ... it's insane. Almost EVERY standard is being tightened. We had an EPA higher-up in town last year who told us flat out that for the last 8 years EPA has been forced into silence. They haven't been able to do anything until now. Now, he's going around forming coalitions of sustainability leaders in our region so they can share roadblocks and success stories. They feel like they can actually WORK again.

[mercat]

That makes me so incredibly hopeful! :D

[mercat]

While this sort of thing makes me much more hopefuly, the idiocy behind previous decisions is making me RAGE.

[xyrisquint]

Good stuff... I hope this continues on the intended course...I wanna work for the EPA in the future