EPA’s Lisa Jackson on “jack-booted thugs”
By Norman Leahy | Friday, November 4th, 2011 | PolicyThe Environmental Protection Agency head is upset with congressional Republicans:
U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson took on congressional Republicans for trying to blame a sour economy on environmental regulations yesterday in a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
Jackson accused House and Senate Republicans of deliberately misusing EPA’s assertion that it would need 230,000 people to enforce greenhouse gas regulations. The number, she said, was drawn from an agency document arguing for “tailoring” the regulations to exempt small businesses.
“Those jack-booted thugs knew that,” she said of the Republicans.
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Norm Leahy has written about Virginia and national politics online since 2002, beginning with One Man's Trash (OMT), and continuing through Bacon's Rebellion (both the blog and the e-zine), Sic Semper Tyrannis, NBC12's Decision Virginia, Richmond.com and Tertium Quids. He is the chief blogger at "The Score" and a producer of "The Score" radio show as well as being a Washington Post contributor.
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4 Responses to "EPA’s Lisa Jackson on “jack-booted thugs”"
A mere 230 000 people to “tailor” the regulations. I hope someone is maistaken about he number of zeros but if not could we perhaps just take something off the rack instead? I hesitate to ask how many employees it takes to grant Obamacare waivers.
i got so nervous I through an extra letter into mistaken.
I got so nervous I misspelled threw. I think I’ve calmed down now.
Ummm… Redstate.com thinks your post is completely inaccurate. You might want to talk to them.
http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/2011/11/04/epa-chief-lisa-jackson-calls-republicans-jack-booted-thugs/
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