GOP candidate won't enforce climate law

Several years ago, California became a national model when it passed a law to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30%. Refineries, utilities, and other major industries must start cutting their emissions by 2012, and emissions must be down to 1990 levels by 2020.

But laws are just "damn pieces of paper" in conservaworld.

California's leading Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is known for that really awful speech during the 2008 Republican National Convention. (Yeah, I know: which really awful speech?) Now Whitman says that if she's elected, she'll stop enforcing California's climate law the moment she takes the oath of office.

Yeah, ignoring a popular landmark climate law will really get you votes - not!

Meanwhile, 3 Texas oil corporations are financing a referendumb to delay enforcement of California's law until the state's unemployment rate is cut by half.

Something tells me unemployment won't be down by half until the law takes effect. This greenhouse gas legislation is vital to the state's economy, and it will promote clean energy and reduce fuel expenses.

In brief, the Golden State is faced with out-of-state firms trying to gut an important climate law - and with a gubernatorial candidate who won't even enforce this law anyway! That's the Republicans' idea of the rule of law - sorry, the rule of "damn pieces of paper."