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,

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We Can Enforce Cap & Trade without Cap & Trade!!!

[akuma_river]

In her first year at the EPA, Jackson granted California a waiver to impose tougher greenhouse-gas standards for new automobiles, which the Bush administration had denied. She declared that the EPA would set standards for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. (This means that, if Congress fails to pass cap-and-trade legislation, the EPA could act on its own to regulate carbon emissions.) And she accepted the EPA staff’s recommendations for tougher smog standards--recommendations that had been rebuffed by the previous EPA head. Science, it seems clear, is back in command at the EPA.

Btw, Medina the 'Tea Party gun toting in the grocery store' madwoman wants to KILL the EPA in TEXAS!

Re: We Can Enforce Cap & Trade without Cap & Trade!!!

[mercurychaos]

She's a nut. I know a lot of people who are voting for Hutchinson in the Republican primary even though they aren't Republicans, just make sure that Medina and Perry don't have a chance.

[angelus7988]

This warmed the cockles of my cold, metallic, technocratic heart.