Posted on 07/28/2012 1:09:39 PM PDT by bestintxas
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should use its power for good, not evil, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney told supporters Thursday night at a fundraiser in London where he will attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
“My view is that the EPA — if it keeps to its mission and does not use its power to foster or further an anti-carbon energy agenda — would be a more effective department,” Romney told the crowd.
Politico is reporting the comments today, and says that Romney also criticized as overreach the Supreme Court’s Massachusetts v. EPA decision in 2007.
“I happen to think that the decision by the Supreme Court and by the administration to have the EPA also regulate the emissions of carbon dioxide was beyond the intent of the original legislation,” Romney said.
“I believe the EPA has to see itself as being responsible for our air and water and not take action which can prevent us from taking advantage of the extraordinary energy resources we have, such as coal, oil, natural gas,” Romney said.
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He’s just staying true to form; I don’t know why people are surprised.
Romney in 2003, about a Massachusetts coal plant:
“I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people.”
“I believe the EPA has to see itself as being responsible for our air and water......”
The EPA has lost all credibility because of its abuse of power.
Whether he's Big Government or not, he'd be flat stupid to offer the MSM ammunition like that to slam him with at this point.
And the conservative retreat continues.
My candidate was conservative. He didn't win.
ALL we can do now is staunch the bleeding.
Until I see a better alternative, which no one around here seems to have.
LOL so appeasing the left is your answer.
Way to show that steel spine.
I’m waiting to hear your’s, Ben Hur.
The checks and balances of constitutional government doesn’t apply to the agencies, they are a fourth branch of government and a law unto themselves.
There is no Bill of Rights to limit the power of the regulators. They are kings in business casual. Once they decide to come after you, you are toast. They have an unlimited budget and all the time in the world to bankrupt you.
Well I’m actually trying to push Mushy Mitt to the right unlike you who just wants liberal approval.
I knew it was crap when you clowns flapped your gums about pushing Romney to the right and sure enough it isn’t going to happen.
The Elitist Political Association needs to go away.
Your posts used to be coherent. I enjoyed reading them.
And you used to be a conservative.
>>>Romney is no conservative. He will never favor anything that reduces the scope and size of government.<<<<
Bingo! He loves big government, and will not lift a finger to reduce the size of government, just look at Mass gov’t before and after willard did his thing.
What he will do is tailor gov’t to help his big money donors and supporters, most of these benefits will be warmly received by off shore industry.
I actually agree with Romney on this one. The EPA is just another government agency that has gone rogue. It has done some good things-like its insistence on emissions on small engines like outboard motors, which are much better, get better fuel economy and have fewer emissions than older engines. But like most of the welfare agencies, it has gotten out of control and has been run by enviro freaks. If we had a real watch guard agency to monitor the extremes of these other unaccountable agencies, we wouldn’t see such extremes. But then, it would probably get out of control also.
Since Romney (aka, Rotney) is no conservative, we need to drag him to win in Nov, and then drag him for four years to do the right thing as much as possible. it’s the pragmatist’s way.
Liberals win a hundred TINY battles every month - in court, on TV shows, in the MSM - and they all look rational to hard working folks that have no time to examine life's lessons. Maybe little victories would be a start to slowing the growth of EPA DOJ etc. etc.
Others think flailing around and ending up roadkill is a better option.
you are so right.
It'd be an easy matter to disarm and dismantle it via the budget process, which I suspect he'll do.
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