Mark’s Soap Box

So why are they pissed?

President George Bush is playing the hero again as he tours fire-ravaged California this week. Yet his expressions of concern are not likely to be taken well, since he has stood in the way of that state’s effort to fight global warming emissions for the last two years!

Yep, it’s Bush’s fault the fires are raging. No! it can’t be the radical environmentalists’ ability to pass laws that don’t allow you to clear brush from you home to protect it. Nor can it be the liberal run government whose only purpose is to protect it’s budget and enlarge same. No it can’t be that we are being taxed to death and have to buy less quality goods — like homes. It can’t be the continued blocking of fire protection products by radicals like “Friends of the Earth.” No it’s Bush’s Fault.

While Bush is attempting to score compassion points with the people of California, let’s tell him not to burn Californians by blocking their duly enacted laws. The EPA must allow the state’s Pavley, or “Clean Cars” fuel emission standards to go forward - along with the standards of a dozen other states that have followed California’s lead.

Funny, last time I checked the “duly enacted” law required approval by the EPA, because of a duly enacted law. Being a hypocrite must be a requirement to be a liberal.

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