Polluter Protection
Bush loses another vote.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency for two Republican presidents criticized President Bush’s record on Monday, calling it a “polluter protection” policy.
Russell E. Train, who headed the EPA from September 1973 to January 1977 - part of the Nixon and Ford administrations - said Bush’s record on the environment was so dismal that he would cast his vote for Democrat John Kerry.
“It’s almost as if the motto of the administration in power today in Washington is not environmental protection, but polluter protection,” Train said. “I find this deeply disturbing.”
I used to post about environmental issues a lot. I don’t, much, anymore. It’s not that there isn’t plenty to say.
But environmentalism is a long-term concern. And it’s overwhelmed by my short-term concern of ending up a serf under a Republican Thousand Year Reich, with a boot stamping on my face forever.
First, let’s restore a democratically elected goverment to the U.S., and then you’ll hear me bitch and whine about Kerry’s environmental policies.
It's abusrd to base your vote on only one topic. According to this logic, the EPA guy would vote for Hitler as long as he kept the land in proper order.
Posted by Mike on July 21 2004 08:16
Would it be absurd for one thing to be the deciding factor after all the rest of the things had left one ambivalent?
Or to point to one issue that you felt strongly about as a deciding factor, even though other factors would have led you to the same decision, because it just happened to be the issue you were talking about at the moment?
Posted by Zed on July 21 2004 09:06