9 July 2008 72 views Comments Print  Email This

The headline and first few paragraphs almost had me believing some crime had been committed, but it’s just some Obama supporting ex-EPA guy trying to get a jab in on Cheney and Bush.

A disclosure Tuesday that Vice President Dick Cheney’s office sought to alter a federal official’s prepared testimony about the health consequences of global warming intensified an increasingly open conflict between the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House over how to respond to climate change.

GOOD! That’s exactly the type thing that make me like Cheney so much.  He told the climate sissy’s to F themselves.

The disclosure about Vice President Cheney’s role came from Jason Burnett, who until last month was the EPA’s associate deputy administrator. Mr. Burnett, whose duties included advising EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on a range of issues involving climate change, is a supporter of the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.) and has contributed extensively to the campaigns of other Democrats — giving more than $100,000 since 2000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based government watchdog.

Congressional Democrats have been prodding the Bush administration to take action on limiting emissions of the greenhouse gases believed to contribute to global warming, even as Congress itself has failed to pass proposals to cap such emissions. In the meantime, some Democrats in Congress have been extracting emails and other internal documents to build a case that the White House has squelched efforts by EPA officials to put forward meaningful proposals for greenhouse-gas controls.

Maybe I missed it somewhere along the line, but obviously global warming has become “fact” and should now become another tool by the left, and sadly some on the right, to control our behavior via taxation.  Obamatards look away, that’s too much common sense for your feeble little peanuts to process.

In a letter dated July 6 in response to questions from the chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.), Mr. Burnett said Mr. Cheney’s office and the White House Council on Environmental Quality “were seeking deletions” last fall to congressional testimony about climate change prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mr. Burnett said the latter office asked him “to work with CDC” to remove from the testimony “any discussion of the human health consequences of climate change.”

The issue of whether greenhouse gases endanger public health or welfare is significant because a finding by the EPA that they do would require the agency to regulate them under the terms of the federal Clean Air Act, spurring new rules across a range of industries.

Environmentalists, congressional Democrats and officials in more than a dozen states have sought to prod the EPA to reach a decision on the matter, following a Supreme Court ruling last year that greenhouse gases are pollutants and can be regulated under the EPA’s existing authority. But the Bush administration has resisted, arguing that economy-wide regulations of such emissions could cripple the U.S. economy.

Mr. Burnett said he declined to go along with the White House request to push for deletions to the CDC testimony, because the CDC’s draft testimony — which included examples of how climate change is likely to have “a significant impact” on public health — was “fundamentally accurate.”

Good job Bush/Cheney!  Regardless of your motivation, keep those climate commie kooks out of our lives!

From WSJ

From HuffPo a little snippet of dung:

Boxer, in a news conference on Tuesday, went so far as to say White House press secretary Dana Perino had lied about why the White House had pushed for the deletions. That, in turn, prompted Perino to demand an apology from Boxer.

“I have never said such a thing about a fellow public servant, and I wouldn’t if I didn’t have all the facts,” Perino said from Japan, where President Bush is attending a meeting of world economic leaders. “I think I deserve an apology.”

What the lovely D. Perino seems to forget is that socialist(D) can say whatever they like about whomever they like.  Remember Boxer and the polar bear stupidity?

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