Posted on 11/07/2015 12:28:52 PM PST by bestintxas
Kentucky Gov.-elect Matt Bevin said in an appearance on The Glenn Beck Radio Program Friday that he will push back against the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate the coal industry, telling the EPA to “pound sand.â€
Bevin’s comments came after Glenn Beck asked, “Now that you’re in, President Obama has said that he’s going to destroy the coal industry. Kentucky is a coal state. What are you going to be doing specifically to push back on that?â€
In August, President Barack Obama unveiled his coal policy in partnership with the EPA, granting the agency authority over what is traditionally a state responsibility.
According to Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at American Action Forum, the policy will cost $2.5 trillion and 125,800 jobs, along with shuttering 66 power plants.
Bevin, a Tea Party favorite who became only the second Republican in four decades to win Kentucky’s governorship Tuesday, vowed to stand against the EPA when it comes to protecting his state’s large coal industry.
“Why it is that we in Kentucky — that sit on two extraordinary basins, the Illinois basin and the Central basin, an abundance of this — how are we not participating in something that the world wants more of than they ever have?†Bevin asked. “And so, from my way of thinking, we will tell the EPA and other unelected officials who have no legal authority over us as a state, to pound sand.â€
Bevin, a self-described “staunch conservative,†told Beck he believes the 10th Amendment is “one of the most powerful tools†and that power not expressly given to the federal government is the responsibility of the states.
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Thank God we elected lesser evils. Hopefully they will stop this madman in their own party from saving his state from Barry and setting an example to others...
Gosh just think if the house and senate did this? We might come out of this crappy economy.
Well yea but we had to elect Mitch no matter what.
there are no lesser evils. the concept was developed by lesser minds
I he talking about that dusty old extremeist document?
‘Rolls eyes’...
/s
Bump!
Must suck to be blind as well as stupid. Considering we still have idiots arguing lesser evil as the way to conservative governance on FR daily, you might want to get with them and explain to them that they don’t exist.
the un-Elected anti-Protection Agency.
oh how I would love to see THEM shuttered, along with about a dozen other Alphabet agencies.
drill baby drill
I love it. How many divisions does the EPA have?
I know you will get the word out to all the rest
What are they (EPA) going to do about the Colorado River and all the drinking water they ruined for a lot of people?
Oh yeah, I forgot...NOTHING...because anyone that goes up against this idiot that was voted in twice ends up on the street, course that might not be a good idea, it is the EPA afterall!!!
Seems to be working overall. More people every day say they will never again vote for those lesser evilsyou pine for.
Bet that really pXsses you off huh woogums.
Good.
Just the thought of obungo pounding sand makes me smile.
Tell them to go to hell gov.
Go vote for mitch and Jonbon/Ryan again. Or support them. Whatever. You seem to like what they just gave you over the last month alone. Obviously you oppose traditional marriage as well. Abortion is no biggie either. I guess terrorists DESERVE weapons.
A year out and already you lesser evils are ready to cave. Cant even stand up and fight for a conservative just as the race begins. No guts, no principle. Just capitulation from day 1.
CANCERvatism at it’s finest.
Yup. Seems the usual leftists here still want more evil though. Just look at their posts.
So you settle for greater defeats?
Great plan.
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