Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir

Friday, September 2, 2011

Osama sees the world?

Finally, he acts as if he really sees reality.

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Obama halts controversial EPA regulation


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday scrapped his administration's controversial plans to tighten smog rules, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders.
Obama overruled the Environmental Protection Agency — and the unanimous opinion of its independent panel of scientific advisers — and directed administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the proposed regulation to reduce concentrations of ground-level ozone, smog's main ingredient. The decision rests in part on reducing regulatory burdens and uncertainty for businesses at a time of rampant uncertainty about an unsteady economy.

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I'm sure, though, that his coming "jobs speech" will suggest ways we can recover the 90 billion costs, somehow, and probably without adding a single permanent job.

Do we still have to deal with his promised destruction of the coal industry - or has he shot his wad?

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