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Not your daddy's GOP?

Well, we’ll see. But there are signs of fight in some of these lawmakers:

GOP lawmakers have already moved decisively to curtail the power and influence of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has extended its regulatory reach without congressional approval.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rodgers (R-Ky.) has introduced a continuing resolution that would cut $61 billion from government operations through Sept. 30. Tea Party activists, who have very astutely maintained pressure on the GOP majority, have good reason to be pleased. The legislation cuts the EPA’s budget by $3 billion, which is nearly 30 percent the 2010 level of $10.3 billion. It would also withhold funding for any current and future EPA greenhouse gas regulations on stationary sources. That’s a nice step forward for the cause of limited government.

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[…] regardless of where top Republicans officials stand on the science behind so-called “man-made” global warming, the party is unified against the EPA’s overreach. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), the chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that deals with the renegade agency, has said the new bill’s rider on greenhouse gas regulation would give the Energy and Commerce Committee “time to craft thoughtful, effective legislation to clarify EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act and provide certainty for job creators.”

There’s more.

House Republicans have also proposed cuts to the EPA aimed its Global Change Program, which measures the potential fallout from climate change. The bill would chop $7 million from the $21 million the program received in 2010. The EPA’s Energy Star program would be also be reduced by about $10 million from where it was in 2010.

President Obama has said he will veto any legislation that strips EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases. But the Republicans are pressing ahead. Most recently, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) introduced a version of Sen. John Barrasso’s (R-WY) bill to pre-empt permanently all regulation of greenhouse gas emissions using any existing legal authority. Walberg’s bill, H.R. 750, has been referred to the Energy and Commerce Committee. Over on the Senate side, Barrasso’s S. 228 has 16 co-sponsors.

Republican presidential contenders may find they need to follow the lead of House Republicans who have thrown down the gauntlet against Team Obama and the extra-constitutional activities of the EPA.

Let Obama veto the thing. At which point we can add “Exhale, baby, exhale!” to the call of “drill, baby, drill!”

Because we are not pollution. Well, most of us. But Michael Moore and Matt Damon are special cases.

20 Replies to “Not your daddy's GOP?”

  1. Joe says:

    Matt Damon was birthed from a sweaty fold of Michael Moore’s belly.

    Oh, and fuck Michael Moore.

  2. Matt says:

    I can’t frickin believe the EPA gets 21 million dollars a year for global freaking warming. Seriously, this infuriates me. Fuck envirowackos. I’ve been repeating that quite a bit lately, as I pay almost 4 dollars a gallon for gas, while entire lakes of oil sit untouched within our borders. Oh yeah, and thanks to these assholes, my dishes don’t get clean in my dishwasher anymore. So basically , I have to hand wash my dishes to “save the environment”

    Did i mention “fuck the environmental movement” as a whole? I used to recycle, as my one environmental contribution and I quit doing it, just to spite them. Now I use all nonrecyclable products, as well as plastic forks, spoons and knives. Some checkout guy at Publix tried to sell me a “Green” grocery bag for 20 bucks and I about punched him.

  3. LBascom says:

    Gee, I wonder how good for the environment it is to drop a couple of rockets headed for space into the ocean.

    A rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite plummeted into the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch attempt Friday, the second-straight blow to NASA’s weakened environmental monitoring program. […]

    The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA’s Glory satellite lifted off early Friday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, but fell to the sea several minutes later. The same thing happened to another climate-monitoring satellite two years ago with the same type of rocket. […]

    The 2009 failed satellite, which would have studied global warming, crashed into the ocean near Antarctica. Officials said Glory likely wound up landing in the same area. Both were on Taurus rockets launched by Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va. […]

    The $424 million mission is managed by the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. NASA paid Orbital about $54 million to launch Glory, according to Orbital spokesman Barron Beneski.

    Don’t tell me God has no sense of humor…

  4. Entropy says:

    My dishwasher sucks.

    Which makes me feel obliged to point out that I’d rather you be dead, than have to pre-rinse my dishes.

    That’s basically my take on environmentalism.

    In fact, I’m thinking of making this my official theme song.

  5. newrouter says:

    add tsp from home depot

  6. Bob Reed says:

    They should just de-fund the entire EPA…

    And you’re right, let Obama veto it. Hell, I say tie it to the debt ceiling legislation coming down the pike.

  7. Joe says:

    I was listening to NPR report how wolverines are moving down to repopulate the lower 48 from Canada. An evironmental succeess story if you will. Immediately followed with: They are all going to die from global warming however.

    Oh, and fuck Michael Moore.

  8. Pablo says:

    My dishwasher sucks.

    Which makes me feel obliged to point out that I’d rather you be dead, than have to pre-rinse my dishes.

    Beck had a great line years ago: “I’d drill right through a caribou’s head for a gallon of gas.”

    In other news, Andrew Wilkow saw an advance screening of Atlas Shrugged last night and he’s absolutely raving about it. “Absolute fidelity to the book” was mentioned.

  9. geoffb says:

    Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), My congressman.

  10. SporkLift Driver says:

    I was listening to NPR report how wolverines are moving down to repopulate the lower 48 from Canada. An evironmental succeess story if you will. Immediately followed with: They are all going to die from global warming however.

    Wolverines!

  11. Squid says:

    “NASA’s Glory plunges into the ocean in a cloud of debris.”

    That’s poetry, it is.

  12. mojo says:

    They don’t need to pass a law “that strips EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases”, because EPA never had that authority to begin with. All they need to do is “clarify” with a Sense of the Congress resolution pointing that little fact out. Then the courts will do the job.

  13. McGehee says:

    “Then the courts will do the job.”

    LOL.

    Wait — you’re serious?

  14. mojo says:

    What, you can’t tell?

    I really need to work on that…

  15. Mikey NTH says:

    And Michael Moore has said how all the rich people’s money is a national resource belonginf to all. I think that is pretty neat, and since he has this place on Torch Lake in northern Michigan I propose we all meet up and hang out at his ‘national resource’ for a few days this summer, get a little bit of ours out of it.

    I know he’ll think its swell because he said that rich people’s money is a national resource.
    I wonder if he has a ski boat?

  16. Stephanie says:

    I wonder if he has a ski boat?

    A ski boat large enough that it could stay afloat while hauling his ass around -in it or behind it- would create a helluva wake.

    ‘All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.’

  17. Jeff G. says:

    I’ve seen Fast Times over 170 times. Now I have to watch it again.

    It’s like a tick.

  18. Stephanie says:

    When you’re oogling Phoebe, remember me fondly, then. YMVVW.

  19. serr8d says:

    My dishwasher sucks.

    Not your dishwasher. The new ‘environmentally friendly‘ powders and liquids are bereft of phosphates. Get you some commercial dishwasher powder (warning! back-alley deals with your local underpaid restaurant employees can result!) and you’ll have clean forks again.

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