Friday, September 02, 2011  Obama must realize he's in real
trouble; he's made the enviroweenies  mad at him: The White
House announced Friday that it is shelving a major planned
Environmental Protection Agency regulation that would have
tightened smog standards, dealing a huge blow to
environmentalists that had pushed the Obama administration to
resist industry pressure to abandon the regulation.  In a
statement, President Obama said that the rule is being shelved
because he is wary of imposing regulatory burdens during the
economic recovery. Translation: a bunch of states like Texas
looked at what this rule would do to power generation and the
costs it would impose- which would include dead bodies in heat
and cold waves- and raised three levels of bloody hell. And a
bunch of Democrats in those states probably pointed out "You let
this go through and you're through."  One of the pieces of
bullshit in this was the EPA claiming 'health benefits' would
pay for the costs: While EPA estimated that the strictest s