It takes a couple of years, but again, here’s direct evidence of the Obama Administration’s hostility towards American oil companies …
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official, Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, admitting that EPA’s “general philosophy” is to “crucify” and “make examples” of oil and gas companies. […]
“I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff about my philosophy of enforcement, and I think it was probably a little crude and maybe not appropriate for the meeting, but I’ll go ahead and tell you what I said:
“It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw and they’d crucify them.
“Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”
“It’s a deterrent factor,” Armendariz said, explaining that the EPA is following the Romans’ philosophy for subjugating conquered villages.
“Under the bus” nothing … Barry and ilk have a nice stockpile of lumber and iron nails awaiting re-election.
They get it. And that’s exactly the kind of attitude and outlook it takes to defeat their ilk.
Although it always amuses me to hear such things from someone that I have no doubt would piss themselves and faint if faced with a genuine bad ass.
They only have power if you acquiesce. Nuff said.
No kidding. If that guy has ever been in a fight, it was with his sister when they were kids.
This guy, @al_armendariz, needs be fired from Government service and escorted back into the halls of SMU Academe, on a rail, tarred and covered with chicken feathers.
Or, better, Spotted Owl feathers.
Let’s see your wood, esse.
Nevermind upholding the law and the Constitution, we’ve got some oil companies to crucify!
“my philosophy of enforcement,”
Somebody shoud explain to this putz the relationship between turnabout and fairplay.
I’d be happy to start the lesson off.
did someone mention jihad? islamophobes the lot of you. allan sumthing!!11!!
mock these alinsky losers. put a flower in their barrel!
That is the really ironic bit, isn’t it.
How long would this little faggot have lasted in the Roman Legions?
what this cheesy motherfucker does not have is a win win attitude
I don’t know, they probably had a fewirrumators in the Gallic auxiliaries.
had a few irrumators in the
That is to say that he might have been kept around like a prison bitch by some face-raping proto-Frenchmen. That’s probably too high of a compliment to pay him but I’m feeling generous.
Looking to the Roman Empire for inspiration, how refreshing.
As an economy measure to improve the funding status of government union pensions and general debt reduction I propose an annual televised pay per view event. The “Decimation of the Bureaucrats.” A five year plan to save the nation.
Grand idea but one little tweek: 1 out of 10 seems far too merciful.
Done the Roman way and as an annual event I think 5 years could do wonders. After that once a decade should suffice.
Okay, you’re right, we don’t need to get carried away, Geoff. I guess the violent imagery from this EPA bureaucrat must have gotten to me.
How long would he last at my door, or yours?
I don’t believe I’ve got any Roman in me, but I’ve got Irish, by God. And I’ve got a hankering to dump 5 quarts of used motor oil into a storm drain, just because yer pissing me off.
If it’s to be a more metaphorical decimation then just cut the payroll by 10% each year for 5 years and say that all can continue working with just less pay or they can draw lots to see who will be booted till 10% of the pay has been shown the door.
Now for that case I’d support 20% per year for 5 years which would reduce the payroll by 2/3rds.
I’d prefer to see the gladius back in action.
I reckon if we crucify the EPA budget, and a lot of their cushy jobs, and make them liable personally for their legal excesses we just might get a few years of good behavior from the EPA just a though.
Or maybe we could do a Thunderdome/Hunger Games sort of thing. Toss the EPA, and the Dept of Education, in a pit with some sharp stuff, play the Star Trek melee music, and the the that comes out of that alive gets to stay on the government payroll. Two bloated swollen bureaucracies enter, one leaves… mostly.
Who run government town? We The PEOPLE run government town. Sometime Aunty forgets that and we have to remind her.
I’m not worried in the slightest about the fact that our government is now almost indistinguishable from Chicago’s Capone mob.
Extortion (taxes) racketeering (crony-capitalism) prostitution (whores) and now crucifixion (this guy!) it’s just how they roll in DC in 2012!
Relax, haters! Mitt is going to get in there, sit down with these clean and articulate EPA/DOT/DOE/DOE/EEOC/DOD/ETC… fellows, and really reason this whole thing out like gentleme…er..womyn.
I am confident that this fine EPA fellow and his GS-15 cohort are quite open to alternative points of view.
It probably works just as well on bureaucrats as it does by them.
In a goose/gander kind of way.
Can I get an “amen?”
bh, wouldn’t he be a fellator?
I am smiling to myself, seeing things like this come out….very Breitbartian, being able to hold things like this up and show the voters – “here is what your self-appointed betters think of you”.
Yes, he would, LTC. Irrumator is the other party with a pinch of rape thrown in.
Was trying to get a two-fer insult in. As in an upstanding Roman would probably kill him on the spot but those Gauls had strange habits.
“Crucify” must be the word of the week for the left.
EPA weasel issues tepid apology for the cruciftion remarks. “He used ‘poor word choices'”.
Duh.
Palaeo, you beat me to the punch. Hunger Games in reverse. Put EPA, HUD, DEA, DOE, all of the alphabet agencies in the game. Certainly there are at least 24; if not, we declare a Quarter Quell and get 48. Winner gets the budget allocation for their department from the Clinton years. Losers – sorry, you’re gone and so is your department.
A couple of years of this and the budget is balanced.
Don’t just look at oil companies and corporations. He is going after people as well. All the dreams of the last 4 years are shattered, and we see that Bush was just an extension of an inevitable dual party process whereby whomever was in charge would have done the exact same thing no matter what.