Comments on: Waxman reveals docs showing White House involvement in EPA’s CA waiver denial.

By: Jess Wonderin

Jess Wonderin — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:04:48 +0000

I want a Congressional Investigation of the Bush Administration to locate ONE appointee actually worth the taxpayer funds and trust we give . . . NOW that would make headlines, when they find one . . .

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:58:44 +0000

Certainly no surprise. Of course , it is the impunity with which they conduct their criminal conspiracy which is most galling!

By: Uncle Ho

Uncle Ho — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:55:07 +0000

Rethugs were FOR state’s rights before they were against them.

By: misshusseinmolly

misshusseinmolly — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:04:50 +0000

shoeless Says
May 19th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Why do Republicans hate state’s rights?
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Eh…only when the states want to do something the GOP finds repugnant. Like trying to make the environment a better place. If the states want to do something the GOP likes — like deny people their civil rights, keep gays from partnering, tell women they can’t do what they want with their bodies, etc., then they’re all for it.

Hypocrites.

By: shoeless

shoeless — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:45:36 +0000

Why do Republicans hate state’s rights?

By: po

po — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:43:58 +0000

oh, please, let’s not kid ourselves, there is not enough “simmering rage” in the USofA about what W et al have done to power my cell phone for a day. Simmering rage . . . more like pathetic indifference.

By: shoeless

shoeless — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:39:40 +0000

Who could ever conceive of the idea that a state would have to apply for a waiver to the federal government in order to be allowed to reduce air pollution, much less that they would be denied a waiver, and be forced to contribute their fair share of pollution?

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:31:07 +0000

Somebody remind me to turn off the LyingBastardOMeter tomorrow before I leave for work.

I’d like to have a garage left when I get home…

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:30:18 +0000

Wayne, I’ll take a nonfat, halfdecaf, single shot with Caramel whipping cream, plese.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:28:51 +0000

I expect the pot will come to a boil in November.

I sure hope so! The sum total of GDumbya’s administration has been nothing but screw-up, kiss-up and cover-up. Even the brain-dead dittoheads and right-wing rant-jocks are going to have to eventually own up to the complete and utter disaster that is called “republicans”.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:27:36 +0000

5th Estate Says:

miss-h-molly: Americans have heard this tune so many times they have become numbed to it. I doubt it will even provoke a ripple of outrage.

I’d agree, but don’t discount ’simmering rage’. I expect the pot will come to a boil in November.

Just made a fresh pot of coffee from my ’simmering rage’, want a cup?

By: 5th Estate

5th Estate — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:27:35 +0000

Wayne: Time for a new sternly worded letter…..

**bangs head on desk.

Careful, Wayne! you keep doing that and you’ll get a ‘devout Muslim’ forehead ‘prayer-bump’. You KNOW what that might lead to!:D

By: aqua21885

aqua21885 — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:25:24 +0000

Hearings or a ripple of outrage, what I’m hoping for is that this will get California that waiver, and that other states will start to follow suit too.

By: 5th Estate

5th Estate — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:24:22 +0000

miss-h-molly: Americans have heard this tune so many times they have become numbed to it. I doubt it will even provoke a ripple of outrage.

I’d agree, but don’t discount ’simmering rage’. I expect the pot will come to a boil in November.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:22:06 +0000

Time for a new sternly worded letter…..

**bangs head on desk.

By: misshusseinmolly

misshusseinmolly — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:20:40 +0000

Since almost everything that any federal agency does or says has the fingerprints of the White House all over it, this is just the latest addition to an already gargantuan pile. Americans have heard this tune so many times they have become numbed to it. I doubt it will even provoke a ripple of outrage.

Pity.

By: po

po — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:13:25 +0000

wow . . . more info we can file in that long since overflowing trash bin of “we already knew this to be true and will do nothing with it”

looking forward to those “hearings”, which the Ds apparently believe equal “oversight”

By: cjmartinez

cjmartinez — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:11:44 +0000

In the words of Dick, “So?”

What’s Waxman going to do about it?

By: Badmoodman

Badmoodman — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:10:04 +0000

The Bush strategery is now clear to me; overwhelm and innundate the next (Democratic) Congress with so many investigations into corruption and illegalities, that they will conduct zero business to move this country forward.

By: 5th Estate

5th Estate — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:09:39 +0000

RUCerious: Wonder why he didn’t keep them quiet for one more day, to shove up Johnson’s butt whilst he was there in person

No dout Burnett is being coached by the hwite House for his testimony tomorrow, today.

Methinks some predictions of Burnett’s responses are in order:

WAXMAN: Who….?
BURNETT: An eager underling…

WAXMAN: When…?
BURNETT: I don’t recall

WAXMAN: Why…?
BURNETT: Nstional Security…

WAXMAN: What….?
BURNETT: Who knows?

WAXMAN: If x…then y; and if not y, then why not?
BURNETT: If I refuse to answer a straightforward question with a straightforward answer, it follows I’m not going to answer a hypothetical question with even a hypotheical answer, let alone a straightforward one. Duh!