Environment

‘Painful Every Step of the Way’: Top EPA Official Inadvertently Tells The Truth About the White House’s Environmental Agenda

Back in 1992, in his speech to the Republican National Convention, Pat Buchanan railed against the “environmental extremists who put birds and rats and insects ahead of families, workers, and jobs.”

This was widely seen as an unfair caricature of liberal environmental policy in 1992. In 2012, it’s practically a bloodless statement of fact.

The Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, in fact, been doing its best to validate this description, either through policy or highly revealing slips of the tongue. The most recent of the slips comes from EPA Region 1 Administrator Curt Spalding, who was captured in a video released by the office of Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) telling an audience at Yale University the following:

But know right now, we are, we are struggling. We are struggling because we are trying to do our jobs. Lisa Jackson has put forth a very powerful message to the country. Just two days ago, the decision on greenhouse gas performance standard and saying basically gas plants are the performance standard which means if you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem. That was a huge decision. You can’t imagine how tough that was. Because you got to remember if you go to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and all those places, you have coal communities who depend on coal. And to say that we just think those communities should just go away, we can’t do that. But she had to do what the law and policy suggested. And it’s painful. It’s painful every step of the way.

Hear the comments from Spalding’s own mouth here:

To Spalding’s credit, he at least sounds regretful that the EPA (according to him) absolutely has to drive an entire industry into the ground for no apparent reason. Nevertheless, this video will do nothing to assuage the image of President Obama as an essentially anti-coal President who is using his EPA to try to strangle the industry – an image that has yielded political humiliation for the President in Appalachia, where coal is one of the leading sources of employment.

One almost feels sorry for President Obama’s sake that “birds and rats and insects” can’t vote…at least, not outside Chicago.

H/T Weaselzippers

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  • blackyb
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:47pm

    That is the only way you will get the truth from these demon crats is inadvertently.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:04pm

      Why these dopey DEMOCRATS in these coal states vote the way they do, makes as much sense as Jews voting DEMOCRAT.

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:09am

      I have a farmer friend who stopped talking to me because I informed him in 08 of what to expect if He kept voting demoncat. He voted for small O and is now suffering much loss due to new regs put on him, including a problem over water on his land. Raising cattle he needed ponds. Now it is costing so much he is selling off the stock but is not allowed to gain the land back for crops. Seems once you put a pond in it will remain so for all time, and even though your family owned the land for generations you have lost all rights to your family land. I told him so. Yet he still votes demoncat and still will not talk to me anymore as I am on the right, conservative. He would rather burn in hell than admit I was right and he and generations of his demoncat family have always been wrong. I say same to the coal miners. If they wish to vote for and keep on voting for the party destroying their livelihood let them eat nonfat cake. Oh yeah, and non salt, under 16 ounces. If you wish to vote for and support tyranny suffer and shut up. You will have my animosity because your terrible choices affect me and mine as well.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:16am

      I was in WV 07-08 and could not believe the BHO hook being swallowed hook line and sinker.

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    • jespasinthru
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:16am

      excellent post, DR VEL!

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    • rickc34
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:19am

      When it come to the Jewish vote the Bible says even the elect will be fooled. Those that live in coal communities that vote for Obama are like chickens that stare at the line while their heads get cut off. Get the message out Obama seeks the dystrucion of the United States and we must vote him out.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:41am

      @ Blackyb

      Actually, no. It’s simpler than that. Read Agenda 21.

      It’s a big read and, in itself, hard to diges, so type Agenda 21 into Youtube, there are plenty of video presentations there that break it down into a form that is easy to follow.

      The early vids predict what will happen, and as you watch, you realise that it has happened.

      Here is the best one (in my opinion), it is non-partisan and factual. All of the points have been taken directly from the UN’s own publications. It is also an hour and a half long so you will need to bookmark it until you have time to watch it.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GykzQWlXJs

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:27am

      @DR VEL

      You need to save that post, and re-post it here as often as possible.

      Spot on !!!!!

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    • spikebu
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:05am

      @nzkiwi…Thanks for the link. I bookmarked it as it is now midnight here. I’ll watch it tomorrow.

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:20am

      rickc34 “When it come to the Jewish vote the Bible says even the elect will be fooled.”

      Get it right. The Elect will never be fooled. Neither the KJV nor the manuscripts state this. There is no mention of the voting habits of the tribe of Judah and concerning the Elect it states were it possible even the Elect would be fooled. Note ‘were it possible’. This was about worshiping the antichrist not voting. Best not to talk about the Word if you are unable to rightly divide it.

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    • spikebu
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:35am

      And The Holy Spirit is why it’s not possible.

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    • SaintzOfAk
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 5:34am

      “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” – Henry Kissinger <—EVIL INCARNATE

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:26am

      @ DR VEL

      Thank you for your wisdom and understanding, and for “rightly dividing the Word of Truth” in addition to your longer post!

      NOW, BECOME AWARE EVERYONE–If implimented, newly proposed rule changes within the USDA (Dept of Agriculture), will limit and heavily tax and regulate anyone who owns three or more “able to breed” (not neutered), dogs. This change is being put forward as implimented to “control puppy farms” (producers of large numbers of puppies). However, large producers are already regulated the the USDA!

      This change would directly affect small breeders of the pets you love, and would ESPECIALLY AFFECT breeders of WORKING DOGS for herding, livestock guardian dogs, hunting, service dogs of all types, and would put undo cost and regulation on individuals, families, small breeders and small farmers who LOVE THE DOGS THEY OWN AND THE DOGS THEY PRODUCE FOR YOU!

      Please check out the proposal here: http://www.naiaonline.org/articles/article/the-usda-proposed-rule-and-you

      Please comment AGAINST this proposal before the deadline of: July 7th, 2012

      Thank you from someone who has produced and trained dogs as pets, hearing dogs, aid dogs for the limited, for police deparments (protection and search dogs), and is now heavily involved in raising sheep in the east U.S., and would not be able to have sheep without the excellent help of livestock guardian dogs–who live with the sheep and think they are sheep, and Border Collies to move the sheep!

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    • jens63
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:02am

      DR VEL, may I copy your post and send it on its way to parties who should be interested?

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:14am

      I am feel ya Dr Vel. The people that note this way are either stupid or severely mis-informed.

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    • old white guy
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:16am

      it is long past time for the people to tell any government agency that they will not comply with shut downs and closures fines and any other bs coming from the government. stand in their way and force them to use violence. then you can fight back.

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:30am

      It’s demoncraps not demoncrats.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:39am

      Yo Dr Vel,

      Pride sure is the cause for a whole heep of trouble !

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    • HKS
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:39am

      I’m sure the Holocaust was painful for most Germans at first as well. It‘s like an evolution you know and it get’s easier to kill the people. Sort of like your first cigarette or first shot of booze and then it’s a habit. These guys are persistent and I’m sure they will overcome their shortcomings.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:44am

      It really is funny reading the big (R’s) attacking the big (D’s).
      Both parties are about big government! Oh, but then there is the tea party.
      Yeah, I would say they sold out when they went with Romney. He is just as big government as Obama!
      What has he stated he would cut from federal government? Anything?
      Keep up the good fight though. Fight those crazy big government D’s.
      Romney will fix it! He is Constitutionally sound!

      BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:03am

      “Best not to talk about the Word if you are unable to rightly divide it.”

      Nothing like the condescending voice of truth…

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:03am

      You mean as a ‘chicken voting for COL Sanders’………Jackson and ALL democrats HATE Ameica; they long for the ‘open society of utopia’ where everything is the same overseenand controlled b y a benevolent, and compassionate, all powerful central government. They (the left and Dems) have been HUGELY successful over the last 50 years at incrementalism; installing the seeds (legislationf from 1965 to 1995) and now they have the ‘mesiah’ in place and it‘s time to ’Get ‘er Done’………the Rominey Administration better be the administration of REPEAL or we are toast!!!

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:25am

      Romney:
      Stated he would have signed NDAA. (I’m curious if he read it before making the comment)
      Supported TARP
      Supports the UN
      Sees no issues the the Federal Reserve
      Signed Romnycare
      Signed Assault rifle ban
      Made no mention of cutting the EPA, DOE, IRS, FED, GSA, TSA, or any other major government institution.

      Hmmmmmm, and he is on the little (r) side of the aisle huh……..
      He is as Utopian as they get. He is a mastermind just like Obama. They know what is best for us!
      We are nothing but proles to Romney as we are to Obama. They do not believe in the individual.
      They believe in the collective. The collective to go right after being left for the past 4 years.
      WE ALWAYS END UP IN THE SAME PLACE!
      More government.
      More regulations.
      More taxes.
      More WARS.
      Less freedom.
      Less Constitution.

      FACT!

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:50am

      Each day brings more of what “they” are planning to do with us. NO HOPE, NEED CHANGE.

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:52am

      13th Imam It makes about as much sense as blacks voting for David Duke. But you have to remember they kept voting the old Grand Wizard Robert Byrd back time after time. Rational reasoning doesn’t seem to matter to dimocRats.

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:58am

      Dr Vel:
      I think what rickc34 meant was that the liberal Jews will believe the same lies the luke-warm Christians will. AND, what is behind all this???? We (Jew and Gentile) fight a SPIRITUAL battle (constantly): demons and angels fighting above us for our attention for our sanity, for our reasoning. For example, a demon is whispering in 1 ear and an angel whispering in another. The voice of true reason & truth will be the angel. The voice of half-truths that will seem true and real, will be the demon whispers. UNDERSTAND YET? The Jews will believe those half-truths. However, according to the Bible, Israel WILL NOT BE DESTROYED and Jesus will return and take over, destroying those evil spirits ALONG WITH THE HUMAN BEINGS THAT LISTENED TO THOSE EVIL SPIRITS AND TOOK ACTION AGAINST THE JEWS, which will be against God Himself.

      The whole point of rickc34 comment was to say that SOME Jews, the most prevalent we see in the news today (not the Lion of Judah Jews) will be swayed and will cause division among themselves.
      I have studied the Bible for over 30 years. It has been my passion, so I can say with MUCH CERTAINTY that NO ONE, not even Satan himself can destroy Israel, not with a nuke, not with a bomb, NOTHING. WHY? Because GOD HIMSELF reigns over Israel and PROTECTS IT IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND. Now, Satan continues to egg on evil men and women to try and divide her and destroy her (Israel), but try as they may, THEY WILL NEVER SUCCEED.

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    • wdittgasn
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:03am

      Coal is a major STRENGTH this country has….. To bring down one of our major strengths is to destroy this country….. The Chinese are going ape over coal, full steam ahead……. So much for carbon footprint, And do you think the Chinese care about burning it cleanly?….. We should be cranking up our coal industry not shutting it down….. True make it as clean as you can, but by all means we should use everything we have….. This age of man’s rule will be ending soon anyway….. BURN THE COAL!

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:19pm

      Its Time To Plan How To Split Up America Into Two Separate Nations.

      Its futile to try to deal with the rogue and illegal Federal Government anymore. The Federal Government is on the way out. Americans no longer can trust it anymore. There are enough Americans today who still want to live in Liberty and Freedom in a new homeland of their own. We are the same people who stood at Bunker Hill and who signed America’s first law, the Declaration of Independence. Our best days are ahead of us and they may be realized under a new name and a different flag. The price will be high but Freedom and Liberty is never cheap. We have a right to be free men and women.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:29pm

      Time To Think Out Of The Box To The Future When We Are Two Separate Nations In Name Instead Of Just Politics.

      The Union was created to protect and defend Liberty and Freedom. Today many despise the concept and will destroy the rest of us. There are enough of us left to form our own new nation based on the US Constitution but without the flaws we have leaned about. Few American now look on the Federal Government as anything other than a repressive rogue tyrant staffed by tyrants. Everyday we all struggle to comply with regulations and the fear of government investigation. Freedom and Liberty are worth the cost. The Government now even flies secret drone aircraft over our homes in attempts to further invade our Liberty and Freedom.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:12pm

      @teamarcheson
      I would love to see that happen. Problem is; Americans can’t think outside the box.
      We can’t even vote for somebody unless MSM says they are the only electable candidate.
      The Right as well as the Left love this idea of central government planning.
      We vote in the favor of the establishment every 4 years. We always pick the same candidates (in policy).
      Look what happens when somebody finally does have the guts to CUT and is running as a candidate;
      We call him names. We laugh at his Constitutional ways. We call him insane along with people who do get what freedom is. WE CAN’T CUT.
      The right loves big government as much as the left.

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    • drmer
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:00pm

      @Dr Vel, Tell your friend to dispute the land grab by an unelected agency. This should go to the Supreme Court, as this is UN Agenda 21, stealing water rights from people, and claiming man-made ponds are open bodies of water or wetlands. They tried that with a couple when they wanted to build their house in an established community by sayin the disrupted a wetland. This case went to the S.Court early this year or last year. The couple won and it turns out the land was accidently flooded by the powers that be,(I forgot who).

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    • Speak2Truth
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:00pm

      Obama told the truth up-front on this. Waaayyy back before the 2008 election, Obama declared war on the American People’s RIGHT to prosper by harvesting their mineral resources. And Democrat Voters joined his war against US energy production.

      Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry
      http://newsbusters.org/node/25829?q=blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/11/02/hidden-audio-obama-tells-sf-chronicle-he-will-bankrupt-coal-industry

      Obama: Spike energy costs to make people go ‘green’
      2007 interview: Proposes government create ‘price signals’ to control behavior
      http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=79758

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    • roscoe05
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:19pm

      read agenda 21 it say’s it all.end of property rights .just about all of both houses congress know about it .look at how much land obama has took for fed land. somebody should count up all the jobs that have been lost cause of the epa and land grabs by obamas bunch!

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    • CaraMia82
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:34pm

      This is a good opportunity for Romney to take his campaign to these coal mines and use them as a backdrop,use it as an example of more unemployment from Obama.

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    • Country Publius
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:22pm

      @ Dr. Vel.

      Your story is illustrative of what i’ve discovered about liberal/progressives from the cross section of society and industry, and that is that they are seem to be emotionally driven in their ideology, but they would rather repeat what they know harms them, then to admit they were wrong.

      It seems unbelievable …but i’ve seen it so many times, including in my own immediate family, that i believe it to be axiomatic.

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    • Country Publius
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:32pm

      @ Wakingsheep

      OK, so you’ve put much effort into disparaging Romney, and are apparently convinced the there’s no difference between Romney and Obama.

      …So what’s “your” plan?

      (…PLEASE dont’ say “write in Ron Paul”, …this is a serious site, and that absurdity would render you irrational to most readers.)

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:48pm

      West Virginia Can Be Returned To The State Of Virginia.

      Or West Virginia can be joined with the destroyed coal producing regions of Pennsylvania. Another of Obama’s promises kept. That US Coal in the ground is reserved for China.

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    • old white guy
      Posted on June 6, 2012 at 6:32am

      question. when are the people going to all government agencies that get in their face to go away. what are they going to to get obam’.s army out to shut you down? time to just say no.

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    • Dan_Lindas_man
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:42pm

      For all of you folks that are wondering why coal states continue to vote for Democrats — did anyone notice the Democratic Primary Election voting in WV, KY, or OK? In all three of these states, at least 40% of the Democrats voted for someone “other than” Obama. This group of voters are being called the “Hillbilly Firewall”. I believe that more and more Democratic registered citizens are getting the message. The message that being a Democratic canidate/office-holder/bureaucrat, does not always mean that they have our best interest at heart.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 9:33am

      Maybe they will wake up (too late tho) when they are unemployed, and their electic bill is ‘outta sight’…………..Now THAT’S “Hope and Change” you can sink your wallet into!!

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  • Sue Dohnim
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:43pm

    The EPA is the instrument of Marxism, specifically NEOMARXISM, the destruction, control, subversion and confiscation of private property and rights.

    Old school Marxists took private property with the force and coercion of a gun but the EPA and NEOMARXIST take it with bureaucracy, legislation, regulation and laws backed by phoney science.

    The Statist are running wild with power and individual liberty is under attack,,,

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    • blackyb
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:49pm

      I agree it is a tool for the destruction of this Republic.

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    • spikebu
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:21am

      My husband was telling me about crops in Colorado dying because the Federal Government has decreed they can’t use their wells? I haven’t had the opportunity to look at the sites he visits yet, but he’s nearly always right. California farmers had to sacrifice their crops to 4 inch, non-native interlopers traveling through the irrigation system. Do you know how much food California used to provide for this country? Remove your clothes, line the area with plastic, and look it up. Don’t forget to cover your computer. Now Colorado isn’t allowed to water their crops? Who else?

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:30am

      We do not have a single man in washington with the guts to start the defunding of the EPA. It should be dismantled and the people who are doing this tried for treason. They are not Americans, they are Communists.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:47am

      And yet we vote for Romney.
      What are his plans for the EPA?

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    • Sue Dohnim
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:52am

      @WAKINGSHEE

      Voting Romney is only the first step to halt the drop into the abyss.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:36pm

      The EPA is a modern day equivalent of Spain’s Inquisition and Hitlers SS.

      The EPA can regulate your child’s wading pool, the mud puddle in your back yard and everything you do in or out of you bed room. It has more power than any King or Emperor ever had. It is a law and judge unto itself and even holds itself above God. Presidents, Senators, Congressman and States fear the EPA more than the IRS. There is a way to stop this and its not going to be cheap.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:06pm

      @Sue Dohnim
      He will continue the same course we have been on.
      See my comments above.

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    • Country Publius
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:46pm

      Actually Sue, what you’re describing is Benito Mussolini-like Fascism, where the central government doesn’t “own” the means of production and distribution of all goods and services like Marxism, but “controls” the means of production and distribution with bureaucratic taxation and regulation.
      Oh yes, i believe the current administration, cabinet and plethora of czars have the propensity and desire to turn the USA into a communist oligarchy, but i believe part of their incrementalism is a phasing through socialism and fascism until we “serfs” can no longer resist their assumption of ownership of all means of production and distribution.
      Current evidence of the end-game is in the take-over of the student loan program, controlling shares of GM, and the effort to take over the health care insurance industry. Killing the private energy industry is merely an interim step to assuming control of the production and distribution of energy.
      In any case, if the American People continue to vote for politicians that promise them free stuff, our individual freedoms and liberties are doomed to become a memory in a egalitarian society where mediocrity and equal misery is the “brass ring” of the oligarchy.

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  • lassiegirldawn
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:43pm

    The EPA is in bed with China, they can dig the coal and turn around and sell it to us. Look at all the mineral and energy resources that have been sold to China that are right here in the US. Look also at the islands and their resources that The Commie In Chief has or wants to give Russia that are up in Alaska. The EPA and The Commie In Chief are selling out the United States of America.

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    • schlitten15
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:45pm

      Thats why we should get rid of the EPA. To many regulations that joke up the job market.

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:40pm

    Senator Casey of Pennsylvania is NO BETTER

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    • Country Publius
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:51pm

      Yup, ol’ Beltway Bob is even a strong advocate for the Law of the Seas Treaty, that would cede US sovereignty to the feckless gaggle of irresponsible tin horn dictators and despotic thugs known as the United Nations.

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  • rede911
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:35pm

    I hope the voters in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio are paying attention. For that matter, I hope everyone who pays a utility bill is paying attention. As coal generated electricty is banned our utilitiy bills will be much higher. Unless something is done to stop the madness, Amercians will be paying two to three times more for electricity in just three to five years time.

    Are you ready? http://www.bigrede.com

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    • jespasinthru
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:16pm

      Obama once gave a televised statement that his proposed energy policies would cause consumers’ electric bills to “necessarily skyrocket”. Those are his own words. One of the conservative super-PACS should grab that sound byte and use it in a campaign ad.

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  • nighttrainno9
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:29pm

    The Epa has clearly become the enemy of the people of theUSA.
    The gloves have to come off, they will put you out of your home,
    starve you to death , and freeze you all at the same time. That
    is attempted murder. It is high time to have a war with these EPA
    bastards, at this point they are a bigger enemy than obama. The bill-
    boards I saw in virginia, WVA and pennslyvania say it all, “obama,
    enemy of the coal bearing states”. I hope when the EPA shows up at coal
    mines, those miners bury those bastards in the deepest shafts
    they have.

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    • Crazyotto
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:38pm

      it is time to end the Department and send the second rate bureaucrats packing. We need this in writing from the Repubs.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:13am

      Even better….I hope the coal mines show up at the EPA

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    • thx1138v2
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:45am

      Be aware that EPA field agents are armed. That’s right, these are not office clerks.

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    • Country Publius
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:59pm

      Hear! Hear!

      i couldn’t agree more.
      It’s time to begin telling the worthless EPA bureaucrats: “We will not comply”!, and to stand up for each other when one of us does it. We outnumber them, and they are operating outside both the letter and intent of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

      i would be in favor of prosecuting them and hanging them out to dry as well, to discourage any aspiring young bureaucrats from assuming the government doesn’t have to govern with the consent of the governed.

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  • psadie
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:28pm

    Here is the rub of the EPA. They killed clean coal into the ground as they are trying to do with all of the natural gas that we in Pa. are enjoying. Range Resources has hired thousands of people along with the other companies that have followed with their products and services. China is opening coal plants like crazy. How will the U.N. control all of those green house gases? The Chinese will put a bullet in your head if you try to stop their progress. Hmmmmmm?

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  • momrules
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:27pm

    I remember hearing this in 2007. Obama is keeping his word.

    http://www.alldeaf.com/war-political-news/58510-obama-says-he-will-bankrupt-new-coal-power-plants.html

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    • momrules
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:37pm

      The youtube audio has been canceled but take the time to read the transcript.

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    • jespasinthru
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:25pm

      They’re going to scrub as many of those damning videos from the web as they can, now that people are starting to pay attention and doing their own research. Obama has said some dangerous, radical things on camera in the past about his plans to destroy America’s energy independence. You just have to look for them, before his handlers wise up and snatch them all off the internet.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:29am

      What do you guys think of what Mitt Romney has said?

      “I want to initiate a bold, far reaching research initiative – an Energy Revolution, if you will. It will be our generation’s equivalent of the Manhatten Project or the mission to the Moon. This will be a mission to create new, economic sources of energy, clean energy. We will license our technology to other nations and of course we will employ it here at home. It will be good for our national defense, it will be good for our foreign policy, it will be good for our economy.” Mitt Romney 2007
      And what he said here:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82k8MU7lmoI

      He has changed his rhetoric in the last 5 years.

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    • thx1138v2
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:43am

      @WestCoastPatriot
      I am not a Romney fan and didn‘t vote for him in my state’s primaries but what he is saying actually makes sense to me. He’s talking about developing new energy sources. I don’t see anything wrong with that. He is not talking about cramming it doiwn the tax payers’ throats.

      We went from burning wood and peat to a coal powered industrial revolution to a hyrdocarbon based industrial giant. Each one leads to the next.

      I don’t have a problem with the government funding research that cannot economically be performed by the private sector. Remember that space technology was the impetus for developing microchip technologies to save weight when launching space craft. That’s a prime example of government creating the impetus for creating private industries.

      Studying and developing alternatives before they are implemented is a far cry from what Obama is doing. Romney understands the economic side of business development while Obama only understands Marxist theory which, by the way, has always failed in practice but he can‘t or won’t see that. Romney understands the national security aspects of dependence on foreign energy sources. Obama probably does also. See the following link:
      The Plan, The Whole Plan, and Nothing But The Plan

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:02am

      ROMNEY hasn’t changed his mind.. he says HE DOES NOT KNOW how much excessive burning of fossil fuels adds to warming or how much is NOT IN OUR CONTROL? He states we need make sure we burn cleaner coal, not SHUT THE COAL industry down. He still says the same thing. Don’t forget, people were relying on scientists and reports from greedy LIBERAL blowhards like GORE to form opinions on this subject. Since then the BOGUS science has been defunct so many have changed their minds completely on this global warming scam to redistribute funds globally for “social justice.” Maybe in Obama terms, you could say Romney has “EVOLVED?” haha

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:52pm

      Believe what you want, Romney is a big government progressive that will continue to spend us into oblivion. If there is a market for these industries, the free market will develop them. We do not need government wasting money, like they always do, studying anything. You guys are so brainwashed it is pitiful.

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:24pm

      The Feds cannot support these initiatives any longer, the cupboard is bare. no matter who wins in the fall the number 1 issue facing the survival of the Republic is getting spending under control and chipping away (in large chunks) at the cancer that is the national debt . The Democrats view the current debt load as unimportant to the grand scheme whereas the Repubs are 180 degrees opposite of that view. There is the fundamental difference. Romney is 1 man he can be influenced by US provided WE do our jobs and hold the Repubs feet to the fire. WE have shirked our responsibility for the last 50 years while the liberlas/Dems have not. Think about it. It’s time we became as effective (if not more) as the leftist machine has become in getting it’s agenda passed. What other choice do WE have at this point ?

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:25pm

    obama is already killing Pennsylvania and West Virginia among other states. he intends to kill ALL of America.

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    • Longing for Change
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:16am

      He is doing it through regulations. Just think of the impact this is having, will have, and has had on our current economic situation.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTIhyMa-Nw&feature=related

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:42am

      Yeah, they are doing it by regulation and not by laws passed by congress. Our congressmen will not stand up to Sweet Old Barack and his Tsars. All they have to do is pass a law restricting the authority of the Cabinet positions.
      I know Sweet Old Barack wil not sign it but it can be passed over his veto.
      As long as we have a congress with no cajones who allow the cabinet officers to make laws by regulation instead of laws passed by congress , the way our founders intended, they will run roughshoid over our rights.

      OMG Nov 6, 2012

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  • TyrannyNoMore
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:24pm

    How much more proof does anyone need, to see what the end game is for the Obama regime ? This is right out of the communist manifesto with regard to bringing down capitalism. If you destroy the engine of capitalism (ENERGY) everything else falls into place for the commies, just as planned. Anyone with half a brain should be able to see all the pieces of this puzzle coming together now. Dear God, the fact that Obama‘s approval rate isn’t below 20% is a profound testament as to how many fools there are in this country.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:49pm

      I believe it is about 25%. This Marxist boz
      o ain’t fooling anyone. hang in there and pray and have faith. God will prevail.

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    • jespasinthru
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:33pm

      Don’t be so quick to believe in the polling data. It’s all rigged to manipulate you into thinking the way they want you to think. I don’t know if you remember how the 2004 election went down, but a week before that election all the major polls had John Kerry beating George Bush by 10 to 12 points.

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    • thx1138v2
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:24am

      People do have a hard time believing it. The following link, however, shows an image that brings many of the aspects of his plan together. This is a political cartoon about FDR in 1934 but it looks really familiar now with Obalma’s actions. If you research the people named they are exactly the kind of people Obama has in his administration.

      Once you understand The Plan everything Obama does is understandable and even predictable. Please distribute the link far and wide.

      The Plan, The Whole Plan, and Nothing But The Plan

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:23pm

    I Gotta Ask:
    .‘PAINFUL EVERY STEP OF THE WAY’: TOP EPA OFFICIAL INADVERTENTLY TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA.
    .
    PAINFUL FOR WHO?

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:49am

      Coal miners, frackers, drillers, natural gas& electricity customers – Oh yea and the category called Taxpayers.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:19pm

    Just how STUPID are Americans?

    It seems that most still do not believe that Obama is a Socialist!

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:33pm

      There not stupid they just think other things are for them more important… Like Surviving

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    • Sue Dohnim
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:00pm

      Obama isn’t a Socialist

      He is a full out Western Marxist

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    • afdbghq
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:25pm

      LIKERW – Not stupid just waiting for their next handout from UNCLE SUGAR and will vote accordingly so the “FREE” stuff keeps coming their way. A major reason for this is our public indoctrination system (read public school system and the teachers unions).

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:17pm

    and to think the unions are supporting obama and his anti american agenda,he and his left wing, bug voting idiots are turning this country upside down and bottom up,at the same time the union member’s are bitching about the loss of jobs but at the same time the keep supporting the lefts agenda.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:24pm

      The union drones are participating in their own demise and don’t even realize it.The unions here in the U.S are fighting for jobs for people in foreign countries and these idiot union members are paying for that.We would be better off if all unions would just die off for good.

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    • FEARLESSLEADER
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:27pm

      COMMONCENSEGUY,The UMW president ran a comercial in western Pa about how Lisa Jackson shot them in the back over the coal. No the president of the UMW shot his rank & file in the back when he endorsed o‘barrie and didn’t tell them that o’barrie was going to bankrupt the coal industry. The mine workers need to wake up and realize that their union reps screwed them.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:14pm

    The so called environmental movement was started to destroy our economy and it was started by the old Soviet union back in the 50′s. Today we have a Marxist in the white house who happens to believe in so called ‘green energy’. Barry has said on camera that he wants to bankrupt the coal industry,a shocking statement in and of itself and he shouldn’t have even been considered a candidate prior to 08 on that statement alone.

    It just goes to show that people don‘t know what’s going on in their own country and debt and voter apathy will destroy this republic.

    President Romney should sign an executive order on day one in office to abolish the EPA on the grounds that the agency is a direct threat to the national security of the United States.

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    • jespasinthru
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:39pm

      Let me see if I remember my history: wasn’t the EPA created by the Carter Administration in a lame attempt to save his disastrous presidency?

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:52am

      NO Nixion signed it into law 1971.
      Carter gave it more teeth.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:56am

      correction: December 2, 1970 Nixion signed the epa into law.

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    • thx1138v2
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:48am

      @jespasinthru: The environmental movement was active long before the EPA was created by law – two different things.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:35am

      THX1138V2 A very astute observation on your part because as you said the origins of the environmental movement and the infliction of the unconstitutional EPA are two different things.

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:38pm

      Something to chew on…..55% of the nations electricity output is provided by coal fired plants. If the coal industry is shuttered the nations economy will completely flat line. The full court press on the coal industry by the EPA , engineered and supported by this Admin is beyond irresponsible, as others have suggested, it rather an assault on the national security of the nation itself. This policy and program (along with it’s brain dead supporters) is treason, period.

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  • 3monkeysmomma
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:10pm

    Mytheos,

    I know you HATE Ron Paul but I am making a personal appeal to you…report on this story. I understand several delegates including the Republican Party Chairman, all Paul supporters were roughed up and arrested in Lousiana after it became clear Paul was going to take a majority of delegates there.

    I was in AZ. I know what REALLY happened there so I know it isn’t far-fetched.

    Does the truth have no agenda as Mr. Beck says? Then tell the truth!
    I beg, BEG YOU, PLEASE start reporting these stories. We are conservatives too.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:12pm

      The truth has no agenda-The republican party has violated it’s own election rules multiple times during this so called primary. They are just as dirty as the dems in their methods. Look at the maine fiasco, they didn’t even record the votes for several districts. The whole thing is fraudulent and sham.

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:41pm

      @Hidden Lion

      I know.
      I had an optimistic moment.
      I thought maybe I could shame them into wanting to tell the truth and be REAL journalists.

      It has passed. I’m better now.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:41am

      How about including Massachusetts, Nevada, Washington, Missouri? How about Maine? All over the place. It is shameful. In Massachusetts, the establishment GOP violated or attempted to violate federal law in my opinion. 42 USC 1971 Section 2 (B).

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:47am

      IT STARTS, The time has come for all good men to come to the aid of their party. To all Ron Paul Delegates and Alternates! Go to this website, sign up for free, give your testimony to the lawsuit being prepared: http://www.toolsforjustice.com/elections-campaigns/legal-remedy-presidential-primary-voting-rights/

      Another link to Lawyers for Ron Paul for more information. https://www.facebook.com/groups/188334154612254/

      It is time to put some of these establishment thugs on trial and in jail. Watch the GOP start to squirm now. This lawsuit will be the start of opening up the convention to unbinding the delegates. Go
      Ron Paul.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:07pm

    Remember Obama’s own words: “Under my energy plans, of a necessity your electrical bills will skyrocket.”

    Now we see the next part happen.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:19pm

      What to use in its place? They don’t want nukes! They don’t want us drilling for natural gas! Running the plants on crude is absolutely out of the question. So I guess we go without electrity?

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    • TyrannyNoMore
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:28pm

      Chief…..The only thing Obama wants to drill, is your wallet !

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:29pm

      chiefgeorge, they think that comet farts are the answer, just maybe they could use all the bullsh*t that their useless idiots are spewing out.

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    • mr.goodvibe
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:43pm

      Sunshine and wind, a liitle corn and some algae, that will fix it LOL

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:01am

      cheif , the potus wants SOLAR really really bad. the only problem is all the amerikan companies keep going bankrupt just as soon as the fed bestows $$$$ on them

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:05pm

    Here’s your chance, Mitt; if you grow a spine during the election process, you can clean house by giving specifics as to how you are going to defund the EPA, the DOE and so forth. Come on, Americans; real Americans; are counting on you!

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:15pm

      I have a very bad feeling Mitt is going to go mushy, while Obama comes at him like a pittbull.

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:26pm

      Darmok – They lick their own balls, don’t they?

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:40pm

      Yes they do, we dogsat a friends Pitt Bull for 6 months, the damn thing humped anything that didn’t move. That is until we got it neutered, then the poor thing could only spout talking points and quote Krugman.

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:57pm

      That’s too bad. I mean, you know, when even the NYT all rolled up across the beak don’t mean sheet and everything…

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:42am

      hey Tron. don’t hold your breath. W did not do anything and IF elected prog Romney will give us more of the same.

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  • scudster
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:03pm

    The EPA needs to go the way of the unions like in Wisconson! Before they totally destroy America!!!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:20pm

      I agree and get rid of all Agenda 21 programs and fundings. Ban it all!

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:54pm

      As we are dumping any and all vestiges of Agenda 21 may I also suggest getting rid of the agency that is largely responsible for the policy itself, the UN. Time the UN was kicked out of the USA and all monetary support from the USA (which the UN needs to survive) be forever revoked.

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  • Ducky 1
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:02pm

    This administrations regulations are literally going to kill this country!! It will not be easy to undo this stuff either……UGH!!!

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:24pm

      Actually, it can be stopped or at least slowed down a good bit. It will just take a conservative president and congress with the brass to do it. Then prepared to stand up to the liberal judges that the so called green movements will obviously shop for in an attempt to keep the EPA going at full bore. The first thing that a new president needs to do is appoint a new and conservative chief for the EPA and send him it to clean house.

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:55pm

    Dear Mr. Spalding,
    We will bury you.
    Sincerely, Pennslyvania.

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  • libsaredangerous
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:52pm

    It is not hard or painful for these communists. They interpret the law and the policy to mean destroy the energy infrastructure to save the planet, which just means destroy the drivers of our economy so our economy withers on the vine and can be reset to a new economy where a world government controls all the levers of economic activity. These people are evil. And these idiot union members in coal country will vote for Obama because their boss said they would be fired if they didn’t. Wake up people!

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    • toto
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:26pm

      They are not about saving the planet! They are about control. Everything they do is designed turn citizens into energy eunuchs completely dependent on the government that will ultimately determine what energy source you will use, how much you will use and when you can use it. That goes for all natural resources. Keeping in mind the degradation of the grid, the closing off of as many sources of electricity as possible, yet at the same time pressuring for the sale of electric vehicles, their end game can only be to get as many people out of their vehicles and tethered to high density cities as possible. Only a moron would think this is good for American citizens. I have lost faith in the American public’s ability to think anything through, or to resist the unacceptable.

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  • Atilla
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:51pm

    Once in a great while the obamacrats tell the truth and it is always not a pretty picture. As the Marxist in chif drives the country into chaos intentionally the motivation becomes crystal clear. Centralized government control over industry that is a communistic/Marxist model and in fact a communist goals.

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    • What_Did_I_Miss
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:12pm

      They are telling the truth about themselves more frequently. They are more confident and aggressive than when they’s lay in the weeds to strike.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:49pm

    Close down EPA. It is run by “green-energy whacko communists.

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:55pm

      I agree ..defund it and let it die!

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    • Grey Eagle
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:01pm

      I agree with you. The Obama Administration and the EPA are trying to destroy all coal, nuclear, and hydroelectric electric power plants. Bear in mind they have nothing to generate electricity in their place. Not sure what they would do with natural gas. They want to use only wind and solar, which does not generate much power at all and certainly could not be used as a replacement source. These are real job killers.

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    • Mess23
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:04pm

      Put it out of our misery…

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    • Puddle Duck
      Posted on June 5, 2012 at 5:03pm

      Wind and solar provide less than 1% of the nations energy needs….clearly aggitating for just these forms of energy is tantamount to suicide for the vast majority (which will include droves of leftists in it’s indescriminate effect). That 1% would be used almost entirely to run the Gov’t leaving the rest of us in the 19th century.

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  • hugecatfish
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:49pm

    So, what he’s saying is that we should take Obama at his word? Wow, what a novel idea!

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  • Cosmos102
    Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:46pm

    I need me a thingamajig for my furnace now, for sure…

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    • Dougral Supports Israel
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:10pm

      I’d like to say I was astounded to hear him say that. Sadly I wasn’t. I’ve come to expect clueless, moronic statements from our highest leaders. “Thingamajig for the furnace” will forever live in infamy next to “we need to pass the bill so they can find out what is in it”.

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    • vic138
      Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:09pm

      Now if only the federal reserve or congress would give every citizen 3,000 dollars we could go out and buy that ‘thingamajib”. It would only be 933 billion of printing… It would be better than giving the banks 786 billion for defaulting mortgages, wouldn’t it?

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