From Salon.com to
you from yours truly
Congressional
Republicans are outraged that the EPA wants to protect our drinking water.
“The only people
with reason to oppose the rule are polluters who knowingly threaten our clean
water"
Wednesday, May 27,
2015 04:52 PM EDT
So who are those
willful polluters?
Congressional
Republicans, along with a select group of Democrats from farm and energy-heavy
states, who are already pushing legislation aimed at crippling the rule in both
Houses.
They’re
characterizing it, as they do most EPA regulations, as a “power grab” and an
overreach, and are vowing to destroy it the same way, presumably, they want to
be allowed to destroy waterways.
House Speaker John
Boehner (R-Ohio) summed up the overwrought sentiment nicely in his reaction to
the rule’s release.
“The
administration’s decree to unilaterally expand federal authority is a raw and
tyrannical power grab that will crush jobs,” he said.
“These leaders know
firsthand that the rule is being shoved down the throats of hardworking people
with no input, and places landowners, small businesses, farmers, and
manufacturers on the road to a regulatory and economic hell.”
"SAY
WHAT??????"