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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (33692)	8/30/2000 10:56:23 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

I agree with Trent. But the division is not between conservatives and moderates, but politically astute conservatives and militants.....BTW, the Little General did not come into the picture until later, for Newt....

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (33692)	8/30/2000 11:03:12 PM
From: Frank Griffin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Gore and Clinton are on a roll: The EPA has set an autumn deadline for new rules on diesel fuel and emissions. The American Petroleum Institute says these rules will cost refineries $8 billion in retooling expenses and every trucker at least $2500.00 a year for higher priced fuel. The US Forest Service wants rules to ban road construction in 40 million to 60 million acres of federal forest land. The American Forest & Paper Association says locking up this land would take 1.4 billion boardfeet of lumber off the market. That amount could build nearly 1 million homes. The EPA is busy trying to assess the risks of pesticides. It already has banned retail sales of the insecticide Dursban. By volume, it was the most widely used insecticide in the world. That this administration knows its actions may not be popular read, Congress won't approve them, is clear from an end run it pulled earlier this year. The EPA wanted to require states to conduct costly water surveys to identify pollution runoff. Congress passed an amendment to a spending bill to block those regulations. But, just days before the bill was signed, the EPA rushed the rules into print. Some might argue that all these rules are needed to solve problems facing the country. And if Congress won't address them, then the administration should be praised for doing so. But, in a democracy, isn't government supposed to be accountable? To whom to these rulemakers answer? Clinton? Gore? Clinton is a lame duck, so he's not accountable. Congress? The rulemakers clearly thing Congress is the enemy and are trying to avoid its oversight. The media? Most members of the press corps agree with these goals, so they're largely silent on the question. These issues will end up in the courts, which will decide if the rulemakers overstepped their place. But judges aren't elected either. This last minute quest for a legacy is predictable, but it could have been avoided. If Congress had just done its job in the first place, it wouldn't have given so much power to the regulators.