House GOP seeks big cuts in environmental rules

CBS ^ | 7/27/11 | Joshua Norman

[WellyP]

About damn time. Keep it going! In Jan 2013 the $-it will really hit the fan!

[cripplecreek]

THE GOP WANTS TO POISON BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9etSE01XIM

LOL

[familyop]

Good. But they’d better design a multi-phase plan for cutting socialist support for socialist politics in general through de-funding of larger socialist constituencies. That would decrease activities in their political base. And cutting federal funding to local governments might be a good way to start.

[boomop1]

When or if we get senate control first purge the RINO's then gut the government anti America cabinet bureaucrat's.

[Brandonmark]

Republicans have regularly called rigorous environmental protection laws anti-business and anti-growth, and they appear to be taking advantage of their greater numbers in the House of Representatives to try to roll them back, mostly by defunding them.

As good a place to start as any!

Next please!!!

[Cobra64]

Very interesting that his came up. An article from Investors Business Daily:

"A Freeze On New Regulations Would Help Boost Job Growth"

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=579619&p=1

[puppypusher]

That sounds like a good start.Afterall all Americans like living in a clean environment.The State Departments of Environmental Protection can enforce their own environmental laws.

[familyop]

"You know what the American people said? They said, 'Hold on a second. We want a cop on the beat. We want clean air. We want clean water,' Browner said."

It doesn't work anyway. You can find cesspools near the water well in the yard of a place that you're renting. And the local code enforcement folks won't do anything about it, if they favor the landlord and want continued tax revenues from him.

So cut funding and power for the EPA, public schools, social programs, planning offices and other offices, while you're at it. The hogs of government are taking us to default.

[andyk]

According to House Democrats, the anti-environment legislative riders include

Well yeah, I guess it just makes sense to talk about these changes in terms of the opposition's characterization.

[The Antiyuppie]

“THE GOP WANTS TO POISON BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

This is obviously a crazy idea.

How would you eat them, then?

[cripplecreek]

LOL

[okie01]

Got a question.

If the best a GOP-majority House can do is $38 million in cuts in return for a Continuing Resolution...and $22 billion in cuts for a Debt Ceiling Hike...how can we expect them to effectively contain the EPA?

Is this another situation where we can expect to get only $1.6 million in savings and just two regulations amended or delayed because "we're only one-third of the government"?

[Mr_Moonlight]

As good a place to start as any! Next please!!!

As Don Micheal Corleone might say: "My offer is this -- Nothing -- not even a severance package for you, Czar Browner, or your staff .."

[oyez]

The EPA is polluting a free economy or what is left of one, anyway.

[dalereed]

eleminate the EPA and fire all that work for it!

[Brandonmark]

I second that!

[Terry Mross]

The republican party has done just as much damage to this country as the dem party. Why do I day this? The EPA was a Nixon thing. And Nixon was the first to spend more than we brought in.

[combat_boots]

“Burn it.” Use your best Scottish accent and go William Wallace on the EPA’s (End People Altogether) a$$. Paint your face blue and wear a kilt even.

But burn it to the ground. There is conservation. There is stewardship. But the EPA is quintessentially abject tyranny of the ego.

[PGalt]

Republicans have regularly called rigorous environmental protection laws anti-business and anti-growth, and they appear to be taking advantage of their greater numbers in the House of Representatives to try to roll them back, mostly by defunding them.

WOOOOHOOOO! DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.