Another alphabet agency gets in on the “Conservatives are the enemy” marching orders; this time it’s the EPA
Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
CEI reviewed Freedom of Information Act requests sent between January 2012 and this spring from several environmental groups friendly to the EPA’s mission, and several conservative groups, to see how equally the agency applies its fee waiver policy for media and watchdog groups. Government agencies are supposed to waive fees for groups disseminating information for public benefit. […]
For 92 percent of requests from green groups, the EPA cooperated by waiving fees for the information. Those requests came from the National Resources Defense Council, EarthJustice, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, The Waterkeeper Alliance, Greenpeace, Southern Environmental Law Center and the Center for Biological Diversity. […]
[CEI fellow Chris Horner] said, “The left hand of big government reaches out to give a boost to its far-left hand at every turn. Argue against more of the same, however, and prepare to be treated as if you have fewer rights.”
Nothing, no one, is allowed to stand in the way of PROGRESS! CHANGE! FUNDAMENTAL TRANFORMATION! Especially a bunch of teabagging, Constitution-fetishizing, #waronwomen, gun-worshipping, religion-clinging Hobbits.
Good Day, sir!
Simple solution: get rid of the EPA.
Didn’t say it was easy.
Nothing, no one, is allowed to stand in the way of PROGRESS! CHANGE! FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION!
Tell that to my good friend Mr. Arithmetic, after he explains to you what happens to your glorious redistribution schemes when an ever-growing denominator meets an ever-shrinking numerator.
yes the thing to remember is it’s highly unlikely any of this would’ve changed under “mitt romney”
the fascist EPA apparatchiks do whatever the hell the want
“Didn’t say it was easy”
Sure it is. House budget for EPA: zero.
Oh. Boehner. Right.
Exactly.
And re: the IRS problem, ditto. Except unlike the EPA, the progressive income tax establishment is sacred to way, way too much of the right.
Can you imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth, SBP.
What is best in life? To hear the lamentations of progressives when their sacred cows are slaughtered and made into hamburger.
It frustrates me that while these things are being uncovered, I know nothing will be done about it and worse, nothing will be done to prevent it from happening in the future. Democrats lie, cheat, steal and lie and get away with it. There should be outrage from their own party, because it could happen to groups they like. Except that it won’t. There’s a reason you never hear stories of rightwing extremists in government pulling this crap – b/c we don’t believe its right to do so. Leftists absolutely believe in deception and unlawful behavior, if its done for their twisted version of the “greater good.”
It was pretty obvious the EPA was the first agency to openly do this and they started back in 2009. Its just that the press didn’t care about it because they support what the EPA is doing.
A caller to Rush a few minutes ago was wishing, hoping, that now with these revelations about Justice and the AP, the press “would finally wake up to what Obama is, what leftists are.”
And I yelled at the radio “the press knows what leftists are, because they ARE leftists.”
You get odd looks when you do that driving a convertible.