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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Give up in action

Finally got around to the NYT today and here it is, the ultimate headline.

10 States, in Challenge to U.S., Plan Suit to Force Better Mileage Rules for S.U.V.'s

Now before I even opened up the article, I knew at least 4 of those states would be Cali, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, you know, the really blue ones, and the remainder would all be blue states. Turns out I was wrong. One, New Mexico, is red (although it is a flipper).

California will be lead plaintiff in the suit, which also includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, as well as New York City and the District of Columbia. Many of the same states have teamed up in other environmental suits against the administration, though with mixed success; a recent suit against the Environmental Protection Agency over power plant emissions was dismissed.

"It's disappointing when you see power exercised to benefit the auto industry rather than consumers or environmental challenges," said Bill Lockyer, the attorney general of California, discussing the Bush administration's fuel economy rules.

The attorney general of Massachusetts, Thomas F. Reilly, said in a statement, "At a time when we are all facing a gas crisis, the Bush administration is pushing for fuel economy standards that appear to be authored by the oil and auto industries."

Go blue states! They will provide the regulatory force to fix the nations problems when retards run the federal government. Why? Because liberals elect sensible leaders to run their states rather than tax-cutting demogogues. Exceptions abound, sure (like Ahnold and Ehrlichman), but they usually end up looking like ineffectual jackasses in the face of a progressive majority who don't let the occasional Republican run the state into the ground (like Ahnold and Ehrlichman).

2 Comments:

minimalist said...

About the only good thing about Connecticut these days is its AG. I knew CT would be one of those states.

1:13 PM, May 02, 2006

Rev. Dr. said...

Blue state AG's rock.

Red state AG's like worthless Kilgore (formerly) here in VA, or that jackass in Kansas spend all their time crying about capital punishment and harassing abortion clinics rather than actually protecting their citizens from scam-artists, spammers, pollution, and the record companies (exception goes to Texas on that last one).

One only has to look to Spitzer for true blue state inspiration. He is the ultimate protector of the public, even if he does go overboard every once in a while and threaten to destroy someone, it's for a good cause (he's harassing MBA's like we've been talking about).

1:58 PM, May 02, 2006