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So Newt would replace the EPA with another agency, which in turn would become the monster that the EPA is now. No thanks. The agency should be completely abolished and state DNRs can cooperate among each other on environmental issues.

More proof that Gingrich and most Republicans would just continue the same-old same-old.

1 posted on 01/26/2011 4:26:52 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; Meerkat

Ping.....


2 posted on 01/26/2011 4:28:53 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Replace it with a tombstone saying EPA...RIP


3 posted on 01/26/2011 4:29:32 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Newtie is a greenie.


4 posted on 01/26/2011 4:31:09 PM PST by stilloftyhenight (Don't make me use uppercase.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Knowing Newt, he wants to replace it with the UN.
5 posted on 01/26/2011 4:34:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Hey, Newt, your inner RINO is showing. Kill the EPA and let nothing take its place. Or are you still sitting on the couch with your old (and I do mean old) buddy bemoaning "global warming"?


6 posted on 01/26/2011 4:35:33 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Newt loves government just another democrat lite, another home land security.


7 posted on 01/26/2011 4:37:43 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

ERASE not replace


8 posted on 01/26/2011 4:38:28 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

More proof that Gingrich and most Republicans would just continue the same-old same-old.

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Hard to say how many Repubs and Yellow-Dogs want big, monolithic government....but it is a fact that they cherish their jobs, in many cases, more than American freedoms and our core values. The people deserve the government they get...don’t blame the crooks. Blame those that keep putting them back in office.


9 posted on 01/26/2011 4:45:24 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think there is room for the establishment of some reasonable standards that would be administered by an agency - I’m old enough to remember when raw sewage ran in the Hudson, there was no living plant on the banks of the Ohio, and the Cuyahoga caught fire. Reasonable standards are not a bad thing, and somebody has to be responsible for overseeing them.

The problem is that all of these agencies seem to be able to take off on their own and are not accountable to the legislative branch or anyone else. Agencies have to exist and they can do good things; but we have to think up a way of controlling them.

In addition, the method of appointing their heads makes them essentially an arm of the Executive Branch, and when you have a nutcase in the White House, as we do now, this can be a problem.

Or then you have the situation of Bush, who obviously wanted to rationalize things but wasn’t strong enough to buck the lower level of civil servants who occupy these posts, combined with the fact that the press attacked him every time he appointed someone to a leadership office and made him afraid to do anything after the first year or so.

The idea of an environmental agency isn’t bad and in fact is necessary, but there has got to be more control over what it’s doing and who is creating the policy. All agencies seem to be off on their own now, carrying out missions that they were never designed to do and implementing policy that has never been publicly discussed or agreed upon anywhere.


10 posted on 01/26/2011 4:49:43 PM PST by livius
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Gingrich is grade B dog meat, not fit for human or dog consumption.


11 posted on 01/26/2011 4:50:04 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I like ABOLISHING (not replacing) EPA agency. The government can help any worker seriously injured due to toxic substances, unsafe safety practices etc by the employer.

Those instances are few and will not require a large agency like EPA to restrain every single business out there with regulations and paper work. My guess is they would need 1/100th the number of current EPA staff and 1/50th budget.

And I speak as someone whose cousin had his lungs severely damaged by inhaling ammonia from a leaking container.


12 posted on 01/26/2011 4:51:02 PM PST by Bridge_toofar (Islam grows silently like cancer and when large enough it kills the host)
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So Chrissy Matthews....er....Newt Gingrich...wants his own Global Warming Hoax agency?

FR needs to “Giuliani” Gingrich now......


13 posted on 01/26/2011 4:53:33 PM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (NAFTA, WTO, UN, IMF, USAID, World Bank, are all Statist organizations)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

How about eliminate the EPA, and don’t replace it, at all!


15 posted on 01/26/2011 4:59:46 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I used to have a tremendous amount of respect for Gingrich and defended him since he first wrote Contract With America; but in the last year or so, he's really pissing me off with his nutty ideas.

I think he and McCain are seeing the same shrink.

16 posted on 01/26/2011 5:34:11 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

So then we can have the APE (Agency for Protection of the Environment) - progress!


18 posted on 01/26/2011 5:58:58 PM PST by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Yep! The fearless fatty is at again...

When, when he had the ability to try, did he ever "replace" or, preferably, "remove" anything associated with marxist ideology?

21 posted on 01/26/2011 6:15:34 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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