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The L.A. Times notes that David Dreier could be a victim of redistricting: “David Dreier, who chairs the House Rules Committee, has a seat at the GOP leadership table, helping set his party's legislative and political agenda. He has hobnobbed with all kinds of figures, from Afghan President Hamid Karzai to Tommy Lasorda, in his spiffy Capitol office. He owns homes in Malibu, Rancho Mirage and his San Gabriel Valley district. And, as head of a panel that works to promote democracy abroad, he has traveled to such places as East Timor and Mongolia. He seems to have everything — except a district to run in next year.”
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Congress wants to continue its dysfunction with weekly votes to dismantle the EPA and the NLRB. Their shrinking base will feel good. But the American people will this as more pollution clogging up our politcal system.
Boehner will keep wasting time voting on items that will go nowhere in a Democratic Senate. Why does he waste our tax dollars so shamelessly? It is jobs, jobs, jobs. Let Boehner try to ignore the jobs bills. See Congressionsal approval go down to ZERO.
Ana is too bananas to understand, but the massive number and scope of regulations of the Obama statist fanatics are jobs killers. They are ruining the private sector economy.
The private sector is being killed by the regulatory state.
Bob-1887910,
You mean those private sector companies with record profits these last two years under Obama's watch? Keep trying to sell your hyperbole. Someone may listen eventually.
Ana,
Jobs, jobs, jobs... so what does King Obama do - hire another academic. Let's see if Obama's numbers keep going down. After a boneheaded move like this, I would expect them to.
Bob think for yourself for once, and quit spouting the Fox (aka tea people GOP propaganda machine) talking points. You're beginning to sound really ignorant. Well more ignorant than usual.
No body listens to Bob AnaBanana. They can get the same talking points from any Tea person GOP they listen to. They're all the same no thoughts just repeating what they hear on Fox (aka tea people propaganda machine).
Mo, dont read this, keep your eyes closed and your ears blocked.
WSJ this morning reported the EPA's bid to reorganize the US electricity industry, among the most expensive rules in the agency's history, which will result in 8% of the generating capacity to be shut down by 2018. Shutting down a large portion of the coal-fired power fleet.
In practice, this will mean brownouts and rolling blackouts.
Another job killing regulation in process will cost at least $11 billion annually to energy industry , requiring utilities to limit hazardous pollutants. The rules are technologically infeasible, nearly impossible to achieve. To moonbats, just saying 'pollution" gives unlimited power and authority to kill jobs and business.
Bob-1887910: You need not worry about electrical capacity, costs, or jobs under the Republican plan, you'll be sick or dead anyway. You seem to be following the Republican method of dealing with the public, just kill them off.
Who needs an environment anyway, amirite Bob?
How is it that these weirdo's Bachman/ Perry all say they want to end social security and medicare . But yet they don't end their own program of retirement that gives them both, but call its by a different name !
They both want to limit government intervention in your daily live's..but yet..try to tell you you cant end an un wanted pregnancy.. or who you can marry etc ...
If you vote these "BUMS" in then you get what you deserve ! Both seem to suffer from " RTS " Religious Twit Syndrome !
Maybe we'd be willing to listen to them if they would give up their government welfare, such as their over paid salary, their health care plan, their retirement plan, their per Diem expenses and all the other welfare programs they're on. Congress motto, take from the poor but leave mine and my rich buddies alone.
Big Business needs controls placed on them. Without regulations we the workers would be in deep do-do. History has shown that regulations on Big Business built the Middle Class.
But wouldn't the Cayhouga (SP??) River over in Cleveland be pretty, all lit up at night again??
And hey- that acid rain could make the ol' 4-wheeled family steed look tie-dyed again!
What is harmlessly described as "pollution rules handed down by the Environmental Protection Agency", were described by the WSJ as " an unprecedented rewrite of air pollution rules in an attempt to shut down a large portion of the coal-fired power fleet." "Among the most expensive in the agency history." These rules would result in coal plant retirements and downgrades equal to 8% of US generating capacity.
Resulting in blackouts, rolling brownouts and spiking rates for consumers...
Obama's EPA zealots are out of control!
If they coal plants can't operate without polluting the environement, they should not be operating. Without the EPA, we would all be dying off at the age of 45, sick from the pollution spewed into the air, having worked in near slave like conditions from the age of seven.
If you want to see what conditions would be like without regulation of business, read Charles Dickens or Upton Sinclair or, better yet, take a hard look at conditions in China or India. Remember the Olympic games in Beijing, where the government had to shut down all business for a month before the games just so the athletes would be able to breathe ?
It is not that the coal can't be burned, rather the operators have to modernize. This is 2011, not 1911. Utilizing electrical generation technology from the 19th century in the 21st is not the best use of resources. Some of the plants may have actually been built by Thomas Edison himself. The long run efficiency and profitability of the companies will benefit by the required improvements.
Good post dirp101. Kinda makes Bobs post look totally childish.
"The long run efficiency and profitability of the companies will benefit by the required improvements."
Bullcrap. The EPA zealots are destroying the coal industry, and killing thousands of jobs.
Bob: you and your cohorts said the same thing about the requirements to not pollute the streams and rivers and the requirements to eliminate the acid rain causing chemicals.
Technology will develop and their will be more jobs created from it.
And, here's a real bonus especially for you Bob, you and your children, grand children and their grand childrens grand children will be able to breath and live on the earth for a long time.
"The EPA zealots are destroying the coal industry, and killing thousands of jobs."
...when everybody knows they should be kililng thousands of PEOPLE.
Bob, you understand that fossil fuels are not sustainable, and ultimately have to be replaced by other energy sources, right?
But hey, why think ahead--let's just leave it for our children to worry about, like everything else!
Congress "playing to the base" is nothing more than FIDDLING WHILE ROME BURNS !!! in the end,republicans just don't care about what's good for our nation as a whole !!!
Nothing new -- Republican pols attacking laws that protect consumers from being plundered by business, and protect our water, air and land from being poisoned to increase business profits.
Do Republican pols really care about jobs? We are living the consequences of GOP race-to-the-bottom trade agreements that started with NAFTA, and deregulated business. Tax incentives for business to move jobs to cheap labor markets by Republicans remain. Republicans steadily refuse to stop illegal immigration, and insource jobs with visas, so business does not have to pay good wages to American workers.
Republicans are playing to the big corporate donors, you know the ones they think can help them buy an election, like in 2010. They think their job is more important than the good of the country period.
Bingo. You nailed it. Ordinary voters are not the audience for this legislation, and God knows, Republicans don't have what is best for the country on their agenda, the audience for this legislation is the deep-pocketed corporate political donors.
Perhaps we wouldn't have such an aggressive EPA under Obama if we didn't have practically a non-existent one under Bush compounded by 30 years of utilities finding it cheaper and more profitable to buy off legislators rather than modernize. It's America's burden and dirty little secret that we have cheap, plentiful coal and there is no such thing as clean coal. So America's economy is without jobs because we don't have enough coal fired utilities? I don't think so. And attacking the NLRB - really? The vast majority of small businesses are not union and are not effected by union attempts to organize. What the GOP hates is that the presence of unions helps to put a floor underneath all wages and forces prevailing wage scales on government projects. If the GOP had it's way they would use prison work gangs to pave our roads.
The Republicans' won't be happy until they've destroyed every last natural resource in this country. Who needs clean water and air anyway!! Heaven help us if Rick Perry somehow manages to get the Republican nomination and wins. Then every state will be as polluted as Texas when he deregulates the EPA