On Our Goverment Acting like a Spoiled Child

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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. – Abraham Lincoln

I hope you remember this post, It’s about the EPA not enforcing a court order .  I also remind you about these two posts, one is on Presidents and choosing which laws to actually enforce (more, the executive branch) and the other is about News, and when you really should review it.  One will note this was a year ago, so it falls into the story is obviously crock (the one last year) turns out it was.

Well, in this update, it seems it’s not the EPA that was acting like a 12 year old, but the White House. What am I talking about, well, incase the article doesn’t link now, i’ll put the relevant quote.

The [Bush] White House in December refused to accept the EPA’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last week.

Yeah, you read that right.  They basically went “Out of sights, out of mind.” Here is the part where I don’t get.  The White House didn’t open the email, so the EPA just stopped moving forward.  Just like that. They could have walked it over, or gone ahead an implemented the original, none stripped down plan.  The original plan called for strict regulation of motor vehicle emissions that may (i say may) have saved $500 million over it’s policy term.
Remember the days when people who had an actually objection did their job? or Quit? I do my best not to criticize the present administration because they are doing what they believe in, and I can’t for the life of me think they are trying to destroy America, but it’s too … secretive. If one came out and said. “That’s not what we believe, and so we arn’t going to act on it” Then I have, 1) a sense of conviction, 2) a Sense of where you stand, and 3) who you are as a straight talking person.

Now, there is so much tape of our government backtracking, rewording and sometimes blatantly lying I don’t know what to think. Our government has become a rebellious child, so spoiled and self righteous that I ask this? What do you do when a time-out doesn’t work on your child?

OceansOfThought @ June 26, 2008