Posted on 01/13/2011 3:43:17 PM PST by Slyscribe
In a preview of the type of confrontations likely this year as the new Republican-led House gets down to business, the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said an action by the Environmental Protection Agency to effectively close down a West Virginia coal mine was part of the “climate of uncertainty” facing businesses that was holding back the economic recovery.
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The end justifies the means!
So, they are NOT getting the shaft because of the EPA?
Great! The Comedy Channel is getting kind of boring lately.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.” - Barry Soetoro.
If your intention is to bankrupt coal power plants, why not start with coal mines?
I’m ready for this spectacle of Tucson to disappear. Bad news but it has been played too much and long enough.
Let’s get on with business.
I want to see a parade of clowns being ripped apart by House Committee chairs on whatever followed by a budget saving explosion of defunding for a host of agencies and departments.
Go back to DU. So you signed up yesterday to trash Issa?
Then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, Issa! Subpoena the sumbatches! Don’t just pontificate! We elected this Congress to go and get our freedom back. It’s time you get off your ruling-class ass and DO SOMETHING!
It’s all up to the REPUBLICANS to explain the impact of shutting down our energy industry (i.e., the end of the US as an industrialized country).
If they cannot do it, we really don’t deserve to be more than a Third World country.
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