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 or
eight years, the Clintonoids were perfectly happy with the amount
of arsenic, carbon dioxide, mercury, lead, and
pesticide ingested
by our children. (I say children, as opposed to the rest of humanity,
because in libberish, i.e., liberal-speak, children are used as
political currency.)
Remarkably,
Bill Clinton is hailed as the greatest environmental president in
American history, yet Bush, who has simply maintained many of the
same standards inherited from Clinton, is disparaged as the nation's
the worst environmental president.
Of course,
in leaving office, Clinton not only found time to pardon Marc Rich
(and 150 or so of America's most wanted) and steal White House furniture,
but also to impose numerous eleventh-hour regulations that were
at the top of the environmental wackos' wish list.
Rush Limbaugh
and Rich
Lowry have recently reported that, last year, the Clinton administration
— including the EPA and the president's Council on the Environment,
as well as Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle and 17 of his comrades
— supported extending the current arsenic standard until June 22,
2001. Yet, in mid-December, when it was clear that George W. Bush
would succeed him, Clinton reversed himself and took immediate steps
to impose a higher arsenic standard. Now, of course, after Bush
froze Clinton's edict to allow time for further review, Daschle
and his party are accusing Bush of endangering children.
The idea that
these slapdash regulations, promulgated in the waning hours of a
departing administration, were intended to improve the environment,
is absurd. Their purpose was to unleash a political backlash — Clinton
knew that Bush likely would not accept such economically poisonous
mandates.
Last September,
when the Washington Post first reported that the EPA was
preparing to issue scores of regulations in the event of a Bush
win, the Landmark Legal Foundation sued the EPA for information
identifying the special-interest groups that may have had a role
in influencing the preparation of these rules. Despite the existence
of the lawsuit, and a court order preventing EPA employees from
tampering with potential evidence, four top EPA officials, including
Clinton EPA Administrator Carol Browner, ordered their computer
hard drives erased on their last full day in office. The United
States Attorney, at the direction of the court, is now investigating
the matter.
But you have
to wonder, if these regulations were based on sound science and
noble intentions, why the fevered efforts to cover tracks? Rather
than destroying potential evidence of their good deeds, why wouldn't
Browner and her cohorts be proud of their handiwork?
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