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So, the Senate Should Probably Confirm High-Up EPA Officials, Huh?

Liz772 Wrote: May 11, 2012 12:05 AM

The EPA has such sweeping powers, it's gonna be hard to put a muzzle on it, let alone get rid of it. Once bureaucrats get ahold of power of anykind, they tend to not like to give it up. Especially the bureaucrats at the EPA, these people are very protective of their power, and the democrat party is very protective of them.

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So, the Senate Should Probably Confirm High-Up EPA Officials, Huh?

The senior Republican senator from Oklahoma, Jim Inhofe, is on fire. A couple weeks back, his office unearthed a video of an EPA regional administrator outlining his "crucify them" policy toward polluters -- poignantly revealing how such higher-up government jobs tend to attract overzealous, damn-the-costs, power-tripping bureaucrats who fancy themselves Mother Earth's crusaders. The EPA official in question has since resigned, but from the kerfuffle, Sen. Inhofe is extracting a simple yet brilliant moral: perhaps Congress should be canvassing these characters before they're hired, no?