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The Environmental Protection Agency has become Ronald Reagan’s political toxic dump, its effluvia threatening to poison the President’s expected announcement that he will seek a second term.

There comes a point in the gestation of a political scandal when critical mass is reached. Then the scandal takes on a life of its own, and it grows not gradually but by quantum jumps. This is where we are now with the EPA debacle, say Washington insiders. People wake up in the morning and rush to buy their newspapers for an EPA fix, the way, under Nixon, they had to have their Watergate fix.

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The Environmental Protection Agency has become Ronald Reagan’s political toxic dump, its effluvia threatening to poison the President’s expected announcement that he will seek a second term.

There comes a point in the gestation of a political scandal when critical mass is reached. Then the scandal takes on a life of its own, and it grows not gradually but by quantum jumps. This is where we are now with the EPA debacle, say Washington insiders. People wake up in the morning and rush to buy their newspapers for an EPA fix, the way, under Nixon, they had to have their Watergate fix.