Bush EPA ignores states' pleas

Honestly, what's the point in even dividing the country into states, when Bush doesn't even listen to them and won't let them pass their own regulations?

Bush's EPA is now making it easier to dump mountaintop mining waste into our once-pristine streams. This reverses a regulation that's been in place for a quarter-century that bars mining companies from polluting our water in this manner.

Environmentalists, the governors of Kentucky and Tennessee, and various state legislators urged the EPA to block the changes. Of course, we'd have better luck if we complained to a box of rocks, for the Bush regime isn't known to listen to reason.

True to form, Bush's EPA ignored these pleas.

Isn't it nice to know the streams where we get our water are being polluted with mining waste, and the EPA won't let our state put a stop to it?

You mean the Republicans lied when they said they were for states' rights? Gee, who'd have ever thunk it!

Bush has been on a roll lately with his rule-by-decree fetish. For instance, he's issued a new ukase barring certain federal workers from joining unions (even though some of these jobs have been unionized for decades). Bush's order is illegal.

As America's national village idiot stumbles out the door, his bogus unitary rule theory is all he has left, and it looks like he's using it.

(Source: http://www.kypost.com/content/wcposhared/story.aspx?content_id=18eb3fb1-3e99-42a7-9bac-55f303ba8ae2)