Congress should do away with enabling legislation. This and the other silliness of the DOL’s quickly aborted war on farming suggest all that you need to know about DC. It is not your friend, regardless of who is running it. I long thought we need to showsome compassion id reducing the leviathon state to the people who are there – but I have changed my mind – eliminate half of the management staff – just cut them – we can “crucify” them so the remaining employees understand the danger in acting like a power drunk a**hole. At least it is a process they will be familiar with. Then cut 5% of the remaining staff and those who remain get a 5% pay cut.

This has got to stop.

gekkobear on April 27, 2012 at 3:37 AM

why to use the words I said and bend them to your whim.

You would be great on the Obama team.

/s

There were no “Turkish” towns in the ancient Roman Empire. Did he mean Anatolian towns? Or did he mean the later, Byzantine Roman Empire?

I also think there are some EPA inner agencies like safe drinking water that provide a good service, as we all like clean drinking water.

There are some things that are good, but 90% can be tossed out.

upinak on April 26, 2012 at 11:33 AM

So what percent Mercury would you allow in any drinking water? Any? How many ppb (parts per billion)?

Remember it’s naturally occurring in some areas, and restricting this too much will force rural customers to quit using well water; or to pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on filters for their wells.

You may very well destroy some towns and farms if you set this wrong… but go ahead and declare a one-size-fits-all policy that will work for every county in the entire nation.

Even the stuff that is “good” is stuff they screw up. On a regular basis…

DAMMIT… I was trying to use a real example from about a decade ago and I got it wrong. I “misremembered”… Arsenic was the fight, not mercury (still naturally occurring so the broad strokes of the argument are correct).

http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv24n3/specialreport.pdf

But the one-size-fits-all rule was still one that serious impacted many rural areas that have naturally occurring arsenic; and the EPA had no interest in allowing them time to work to try to meet the drastic new ruling they implemented (until Bush overrode them).

SO I can stand by my ‘Even the stuff that is “good” is stuff they screw up’ statement. And I’ll leave the mercury argument above; admitting I didn’t have this 100% in my head recalling the fight in 2001-2002.

They are the representants en mission of the Agenda 21 Republic of Virtue.

I’d be very surprised to find out that Armendariz is anything unusual. They are all zealots. If they weren’t they wouldn’t have gotten the job.

A war of conquest differed from a punitive war. Punitive wars were designed to punish, if not destroy enemies, usually external. Sometime they were in retaliation against raids by non-Roman enemies, sometimes to punish a rebellious province. The scope was far more than crucifying the first 5 men they saw; it could include crucifying the entire village and maybe the neighboring ones as well. It could include the total destruction of food sources with the deliberate goal of starving everybody to death. Call it “total war.”

The term “sowing with salt” wasn’t just a motto, it was a punitive action.

So, EPA’s Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz is describing a “war of conquest” by the EPA against “foes of global warming” (the oil and coal companies).

I think that after President Romney takes office, he should introduce EPA’s Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, Lisa Jackson, and all of Obama’s political appointees to the other “Roman Way”: Total war. I think that they should all be fired; some should be prosecuted. I think their pensions be confiscated, and they (and any family members) be prohibited from working for ANY GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT FUNDED/SUBSIDIZED or LOBBYING organization for the next 10 years.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/26/rep-fleming-epa-official-who-wants-crucify-companies-needs-to-resign/

FTA:

The use of threats and intimidation to force energy companies to submit to an extremist agenda may be fitting under a totalitarian regime, but it is never acceptable in the United States,” Fleming said in a Thursday afternoon statement. “The sad reality is that Mr. Armendariz employed this strategy. Without real evidence, the EPA tried to stop a company that was safely drilling with hydraulic fracturing. The case was finally dismissed earlier this year, but it stands as an example of the EPA’s willingness to ‘crucify’ energy companies.”

The truth is Zero’s legion does this to anyone they see as an “undesirable.”

This is the same reason the TSA gropes kids and the elderly. It’s to show that if they’ll do that to someone who is obviously not a terrorist, they’ll do it to anyone.
This is how most law enforcement works. Come down hard on the easy targets, and others will fall in line.
It’s how most authoritarian systems work.
lorien1973 on April 26, 2012 at 12:16 PM

At least they have the boiler-plate right:

TSA EPA has reviewed the incident and determined that our officers followed proper screening procedures strong, fair and effective enforcement of the environmental laws passed by Congress in conducting a modified pat-down on the child crucifixion of this evil polluter.

None of the people that called me to tell me I had demonstrations coming due could answer a single question about the variables and assumptions needed to crank out the calcs.

If the Obama Administration doesn’t share their views, they sure seem to pick people cut from the same cloth and place them in positions of power:

Al Armendariz, Region 6 EPA says he wants to “crucify” companies.

Both David Michaels and Jordan Barab, top 2 officials at OSHA, have publicly stated their goal to “Publicly Shame” companies, even when those companies have only been accused of violating safety standards. They also have never written a retraction on their public shame campaigns when citations are withdrawn or overruled in court.

Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor, in her first speech said “There is a new Sheriff in Town” essentially putting companies on notice that she was going to be coming after them.

This to me sounds like the Agencies have received the message that Obama wants his regulators to follow and that they have received that message loud and clear.

Here: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/20/bank-of-america-tells-gun-manufacturer-it-no-longer-wants-their-business/

and here:

Hmmm…maybe a pattern is emerging?

I used the Greenhouse Gas Calculator on EPA’s website after they left and determined that they would need to plant 10 sapplings and have them grow for 10 years to balance out the CO2 emissions that they released on their trip. The EPA inspector actually drove a pickup about 300 miles each way just to come pay us a visit. I thought the EPA only drove cars that emitted unicorns and rainbows. The sad thing is, our facility makes stuff that was probably in his vehicle.

We didn’t share this tidbit with them as they would probably want to “crucify” us if we had shared it, not that they weren’t completely over the top during the inspection anyways.

Why are liberals waging a war on hydraulic fracturing? There isn’t nearly enough evidence to wage such a war.

blink on April 26, 2012 at 12:06 PM

Don’t you know the old saying. When the facts are on your side, argue the facts. When the law is on your side, argue the law. When you have neither law, nor facts, pound the table and scream.

Snake307 on April 26, 2012 at 1:57 PM

Yes, but why do they WANT to ban fracturing? Is it because it sounds scary, is it because of the movie gasland, or is it because they just don’t want natural gas to be inexpensive??

blink on April 26, 2012 at 2:33 PM

It is an due to environmental cause projects. They scream it is polluting water, but even the EPA in a 2006 executive summary has stated there is no evidense, even though the EPA is still doing “studies” to see if it does.

And, of course, politics and money.