Hope At Last!
Paraphrasing candidate Obama in full messianic mode, this may be the moment when the rise of the oceans of job-killing regulatory red tape began to slow and our economy began to heal. The Detroit Free Press explains:
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced today that he has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to drop controversial rules to cut smog levels, a move welcomed by the business community that has long decried them as onerous but one sure to alienate the president’s environmental base even further as his administration backs away from key anti-pollution initiatives.
By the way, EPA's proposed "rules to cut smog levels" would have ratcheted permissible ozone limits to the naturally occurring background levels found in such polluted venues as Yellowstone National Park.
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Oct '10
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My understanding was that this is only while the "economy is bad" or whatever. In other words, he's perfectly fine with killing jobs and hurting business when the economy's *not* in the tank.
Perfectly willing to send the economy down the tank again once it's back out. And once it's past 2013, when it won't affect him getting re-elected.
Dec '10
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I almost feel gratefull for this, knowing how bad the proposed rules were. However, I'm aware they had already been lowered in 2008 and weren't even due for another look until 2013.
This amounts to, "Today, I choose not to be quite such a SOB, but with an expiration date".
May '10
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Is that really his new campaign logo? I love how "Action" is in the grey middle. It's a great symbol for his campaign strategy: "I can't accomplish anything while having to compromise with Republicans."
Hopefully, this move with the EPA means other regulations will similarly be put on hold until either Obama is reelected or he is voted out (and hastily issues a torrent of executive orders).
Aug '10
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Your comparison to ambient levels equal to Yellowstone are the problem. Like the proverbial lab rat who has to drink 100 cans of diet coke in order to be affected , the levels of compliance written by these overreachers far exceeds those established by our Creator. Arsenic is a naturally occurring element. But the levels contemplated for all drinking water producers by the govt will put half of those producers out of business. When's the last time you heard of someone dying from arsenic poisoning by drinking water ?
And there's the law of unintended consequences. The EPA stormwater rules are breaking the budgets of countless towns in America right now. My town is spending hundreds of millions so the storm water won't overflow and whatever was on the parking lot at McDonalds won't go into the Missouri River. It has been flowing at 138 Billion gallons a day all summer, gonna take alot of ketchup,salt and spilled soda to hurt that !
SHUT IT DOWN>
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Aaron, I think it is actually his original logo from the early days of the 2008 campaign. I was drawn to the "Action" term because this is the first time I can recall the president acting on the basis of economic reality rather than pent-up ideological drive.
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I work in medical research. Every toxicologist lives by the adage, "The dose makes the poison." Sadly, EPA, in its quest for control over the U.S. economy, has abandoned any pretense of adhering to this scientific principle.
Dec '10
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Ah, flownover, you have discovered the joys of NPDES Phase II. It's a job creator! Except for the part where it bankrupts municipalities that are already teetering.
My sympathies. NPDES Phase I was often important stuff, the regulation of "Point Sources", as with discharge pipes from industrial operations. Phase II regulates non-point sources and it covers, well, everything! Camel's nose, meet tent.
Jul '10
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Hopefully, this is Our last hope.
Apr '11
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Sadly, through Obama's actions, I can only hope that I'll have some change left in my pocket ...
On the bright side he's suspending them. Of course, I have no doubt he'd bring them back in should he win re-election.
Now, if only Gov. Brown would take a lesson . . .
Dec '10
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In a small way, I really do think that places such as Ricochet, made this happen.
I know that I have posted here previously on this subject, back when it was very obscure, and many others did so on other websites, building the groundswell of discontent for the over-reach by the EPA.
This did not happen because network television and mainstream newspapers raised a stink.
This happened because ordianary, unelected citizens raised a stink on the internet, then pressured their representatives.
We raised the stink that made this go away, for now. There is no other way this would have happened. I assure you, my congressman would not have been aware of this issue, had it not been for the pressure from outside of Washington, D.C.
I hear that Diane is buying a round for the internet, but we don't pay her very well, so no expensive shots. Diane, I will take a Busch draft for my paltry efforts..
Aug '10
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Two questions ? 1- Is IBD the best editorial page ? 2- Is the shortest comment so far ?
Edited on Sep 3, 2011 at 5:32pmMar '11
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Hope? Please..................
This is the "hope" of the wrongly convicted having his sentence reduced from 40 lashes to 20.