Administration disavows its own global warming report.
Administration disavows its own global warming report.
Today, the EPA published its response to the April 2007 Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA — which mandated that the agency determine whether greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health — listing various ways to control emissions. In letters attached to the document, however, administration officials “disavow[ed] the document’s conclusions.” The Wall Street Journal reports:
In a letter accompanying the EPA document…Susan Dudley, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, bluntly disavowed the analysis, saying it relied on “untested legal theories” and “cannot be considered Administration policy or representative of the views of the Administration.”
“There is strong disagreement with many of the legal, analytical, economic, science and policy interpretations in the draft. These letters do reflect agreement with you that the Clean Air Act is a deeply flawed and unsuitable vehicle for reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” Ms. Dudley wrote in the letter, dated Thursday and addressed to the EPA’s administrator, Stephen Johnson.
Brad Johnson at the Wonk Room notes that EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson decided to attack the work of his own staff in addressing climate change, concluding that the Clean Air Act is “ill-suited for the task of regulating global greenhouse gases.”
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Well, if that isn’t the poster boy arse-face of the head of BushCo’s ‘world’s biggest polluter’ propaganda machine, I don’t know what is!
He looks like he just took a huge enema of CO2 ….. and LIKED it!
July 11th, 2008 at 4:37 pmI don’t mean to be shallow but that picture of him make him look like a real horses ass. OK, so that part is shallow, but we’ve all learned since then that he IS a real horses ass.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:37 pmWatching the flip flop of this administration on Global Warming is like watching tennis, back and forth back and forth.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:38 pmJust how many chins does that guy have? Maybe that’s where Cheney is hiding all his missing documents? We better check.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:39 pmThe Bush government….the only institution to give it’s employees shit for doing a good gob…and telling the truth. What a Fu’en mess this country is in.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:53 pmHow will the McCainstream Corporate Media cover this little bit of Bush trickery? The Bush regime is ill-suited to govern beyond the tasks of dog-catching and brush-cutting.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pmA bio on the internets provides this on Dudley: Susan E. Dudley was named April 4, 2007, in a recess appointment by President George W. Bush to be Director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Dudley “will have an opportunity to change or block all regulations proposed by government agencies.”
Another mission accomplished!
July 11th, 2008 at 5:04 pmCaption Contest: ” Not only am I a member of Hair Hats for Men, but I am the President.”
July 11th, 2008 at 5:51 pmShorter Bushies: (stuffung fingers in ears) “Lalalalala-we can’t HEAR you!!”
July 11th, 2008 at 8:00 pmWe are in the Twilight Zone of nation governance. The congressional leadershi(t) of Pelosi and Reid is thoroughly venal and in bush’s pocket. The blatantly crooked actions of the administration are met with toothless “hearings” that do nothing but give the impression of doing something so the public will fist-pump when Whitehouse or Dodd calls the witness a liar…all in polite politico terms of course.
…and leave it to the blogs to scream, “Waxman calls Perino a liar.” We then nod approvingly and feel we are being heard and think, “we sure told them!…”
And then bush gets everything he wants anyway; without a real fight, for the low, low price of a dog-and-pony show to satisfy the gullible hoi polloi.
Want to be a real patriot? Want them to hear you really? It’s called civil disobedience. Consider refusing to pay taxes. Move to get off the grid. Thoreau did it:
Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Webb and the other turncoat cowards just sold-out the Constitution for one reason only: They don’t think we can do anything about it. They are not afraid of the public. they figure they can divide and rule if they throw enough pointless distractions at us via cable news, Fox, Madonna, Britney, et. al. (Why do you think there’s been so much research into crowd control technology of late??)
So far, it’s worked perfectly. Now the 4th amendment is dead, Habeas Corpus is dead, and we are well on our way to losing the last vestige of ‘democratic assemblage’ via the internet.
Is anyone, besides Kucinich and Feingold, patriot enough to take a truly hard line? Are you?
Stop cooperating. Just stop.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:51 pmCaption:
Gobble Gobble.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:23 pm