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"Dubya, by way of his industry cronies, have initiating more than 200 major rollbacks of America's most significant environmental laws."

This is the biggest con-job being perpetrated on the American people by these eco-nuts. Many of these so-called "rollbacks" were never even laws...and were rejected by many Democrats, as well. The fact is, many of these were either "proposals" or EOs that Clinton signed during his last week in office. And why did he wait until his last day in office? Because even he knew that many of these acts would've had a damatic effect on his glorious economy...and that he could never get them through congress.

Oh, it was a beautiful political maneuver; Clinton could propose all these wonderful environmental proposals on his last days in office, knowing full well that the next administration would have to re-evaluate them. Of course, once the next administration did just that, the democrats could claim Bush "rolled back" all these environmental protections. If these were so important to the Democrats and the environmentalist, why did Clinton ignore them for his entire 8 years in office?

Mumford ignores just how extreme environmental policy has gotten over the last decade. From out-of-control forrest fires thanks to brush build-up and reduced access to policies that have impaired our energy resources, including meeting the demands of a growing populous and economy.

Blackouts, brownouts, shortages and a fail to modernize our own electrical grids have been the result of enviromental policy that punishes companies for modernizing. Instead of allowing a company to replace a failed component with a new, more effecient component, Clean Air Act laws require companies to completely retrofit entire systems. As a result, companies try and keep the old inefficient pieces working as long as possible. In other words, it's all or nothing with the environmentalists, because "they" won't compromise.