They're going to fight for their right to make you sick.
“Who does the EPA think they are to tell us what we can and can’t do with our vehicles?” Wedge said.The vast majority listen to Rush, I'd guess.
It's amazing how far the Bushists will go to keep the truth from seeing the light of day.
"Please do not respond to questions or make any statements," the June 16 e-mail said, advising staff to direct questioners to senior staff members cleared to answer questions from outside the agency.If you saw this in a private corporation (and I have), you'd know that the bosses were trying to keep the message consistent, top-down, and unpolluted by any inconvenient truths. A business would say this, too:
EPA press director Roxanne Smith rejected that characterization, saying the e-mail was about efficiency, not secrecy.This of course is more of the bullshit that we Americans have become so inured to in the decades past. We've smelled this barnyard so often that we have olfactory fatigue, and it hardly outrages us any more.
To ignore China's national failure came to be seen as unpatriotic.We on the other hand revel in our national public culture of exceptionalism, where it's politically dangerous even to acknowledge that we have a problem. To rationalize the variance of rhetoric with reality requires our current culture of blatant bullshit.
$1.8 million for 9 dead, or $200,000 each. Weren't we recently scandalized that the EPA had dropped the price for each of us $1,000,000 to $6.9 million?
I guess the miners' families will have to sue for full value. Good luck to them, although they probably will wind up with pennies for their loved ones' eyes.
