Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Great Leadership, Not

Another example of just how corrupt & lawless the Bu$hCo administration has always been. The Harley has been fixed, I destroyed the clutch while attempting to use the bike as a tow truck. I'm stupid, but I know it. Bu$hCo doesn't know & he's a criminal.
A rule designed by the Environmental Protection Agency to keep groundwater clean near oil drilling sites and other construction zones was loosened after White House officials rejected it amid complaints by energy companies that it was too restrictive and after a well-connected Texas oil executive appealed to White House senior advisor Karl Rove.

The new rule, which took effect Monday, came after years of intense industry pressure, including court battles and behind-the-scenes agency lobbying. But environmentalists vowed Monday that the fight was not over, distributing internal White House documents that they said portrayed the new rule as a political payoff to an industry long aligned with the Republican Party and President Bush.

In 2002, a Texas oilman and longtime Republican activist, Ernest Angelo, wrote a letter to Rove complaining that an early version of the rule was causing many in the oil industry to "openly express doubt as to the merit of electing Republicans when we wind up with this type of stupidity.

This Angelo fellow who called the EPA rule "stupid", a rule with the force of law, is the Chair of the Texas Public Safety Commission. It's role in the life of Texans is
- promoting the importance of public safety and law observance.
among several others- items. No wonder Bu$hCo has trouble obeying the law, what, with advisors like this.

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