Don’t Be a Denier, The Science is In!

This is a letter of resignation to the President of the American Physical Society, Curtis G. Callan Jr, from Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It should have been printed on the front page of every newspaper in the country. If you have a blog, please copy it and post it on your blog. It might be one of the greatest thing I’ve ever read.

Dear Curt:
When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:

1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of important issues, and indeed the Constitution cites that as its principal purpose. No more. Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate

2. The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer “explanatory” screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake.

3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.

4. So a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind—simply to bring the subject into the open.<

5. To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment. You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was of course no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council.

6. As of now you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition.

APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?

I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.

I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.
Hal

No further comment from me is necessary.

Tax Cat Out of the Bag

When President Obama was candidate Obama he said over and over again that he would cut taxes for 95% of Americans, or that they would not see their taxes go up. Well I have news for you Obamabots, let me be clear, that was a big lie! Here’s a good rule of thumb: WHENEVER A POLITICIAN IS A DEMOCRAT (S)HE WILL RAISE TAXES AND INCREASE GOVERNMENT SPENDING! IF THEY SAY THEY WILL DO OTHERWISE THEY ARE LYING! 

On Tuesday, White House adviser Paul Volcker said that we might need to adopt a European-style value added tax and a carbon or other energy tax. He said we might have to do this to get entitlement cost and the U.S. budget deficit under control. 

Here’s a crazy idea: STOP SPENDING OUR F***ING MONEY! How about we try that as a way to get our budget deficit under control. Maybe we could reform our entitlement system so that we can ween people off of it and eventually abolish it instead of creating new entitlements, i.e. healthcare. Oh wait, the Democrats run everything so those aren’t options, failure is the only option.

California To Vote on Resotring Liberty in November With Pot Legalization Initiative

In this year’s November election, California citizens will have the opportunity of a lifetime to restore some of their liberty. An initiative that would allow the sale and possession of marijuana has been added to the November 2nd ballot due to a petition effort by the citizens.  

The prohibition of marijuana has failed. It has created a dangerous black market for a natural plant that can grow just about anywhere. The government has wasted billions of dollars in law enforcement and our jails and prisons are filled with non-violent drug users.

Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman explained how the government prohibition of drugs has created more problems than it has solved. His argument is very compelling.

Judge Andrew Napolitano I think sums up the argument in favor of legalization very nicely:

Isn’t it about time for the government to drop its Victorian façade and let folks do to their bodies in private whatever they wish? If we own our bodies, why cannot we put into our bodies what we wish, so long as that private act does not harm anyone else? No one is seriously suggesting that airline pilots or soldiers or surgeons should be permitted to work under the influence of marijuana any more than they can work under the influence of alcohol. But there is a time and place for recreational drugs. The time has now come for the government to get out of our homes and leave us alone. Governments in America have been spending about $50 billion annually on drug enforcement and recreational drugs use increases each year. When will we learn that prohibition is a disaster?

 

 

Using Big Brother To Stop Immigration

Now that the healthcare bill has been signed into law by President Obama the next big political issue in the horizon is Immigration Reform. Senators Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham are already working up a plan to “solve” our immigration problem. They penned an editorial piece in The Washington Post I encourage all of you to read. The bedrock of their plan is biometric ID cards for EVERY U.S. citizen. These ID cards will be required to get a job. In short, the immigration issue, much like the terrorism issue, will be used to take more liberty away from U.S. citizens.

Just in case you’ve forgotten….  

After the attacks on September 11, 2001 the government quickly took advantage of the situation and passed the Patriot Act which, for all intents and purposes, took away our 4th Amendment rights by allowing the government to conduct warrantless wiretaps on any telephone they wanted. The Department of Homeland Security was created which gave us the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) which have turned our country’s airports into locations fascist have wet dreams over. You can’t carry liquid in any container over 3 ounces in size, you have to put you liquids in a clear plastic bag, and you can forget about bringing a bottle of water in from the outside. You have to go through multiple security “checkpoints” where you either have to walk through a naked body scanner or be groped by a TSA agent and while your bags are on the conveyor belts going down the x-ray machine they belong to the TSA. All of these ridiculous measures have done NOTHING to make our airports safer and amount to little more than security theatre.   

 This is America today, let’s talk about America in the coming months….  

 On this season of the hit Fox TV show 24 the fictitious CTU (Counter Terrorism Unit) has the ability to use “drones” (unmanned aircraft with cameras on them) for surveillance. They can control these drones from a central location to provide surveillance for any location in New York City. Drones like this do exist and our military has been using them in the Middle East to fight the War on Terror. The drones in Iraq and Afghanistan not only have the ability to spy from the sky, but they also have advanced weapons systems on them capable of blowing up buildings.

So far, these drones haven’t been used in the United States. However, that is about to change.

According to the Dallas Morning News, the government may start using drones in West Texas and along the coast in an effort to beef up border security. Governor Rick Perry requested the use of these drones a few weeks ago and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Bill White is on board as well. This request was made because Perry doesn’t feel the Feds are doing enough to help with border security in regards to illegal immigration and the recent drug violence in border towns. While the drones haven’t started flying yet, it’s only a matter of time before they are spying on Texans. Who’s to say that they won’t have weapons systems on them?   

So today in America, the supposed land of the free, our phones can be tapped (and now tracked) with out our knowledge, naked images of our bodies can be scanned at the airport, drones can spy on us thousands of feet in the air, and we won’t be able to get jobs with out a biometric ID card. All in the name of “security.”

Didn’t Ben Franklin say something about people willing to give up liberty for security?

The Sun Will Still Rise in the East Tomorrow

The unpopular health care overhaul bill passed in the house tonight, 219-212. We all knew this was going to happen and you were fooling yourself if you believed otherwise. Already, Republicans are planning on repealing the bill should they win back the majority in Congress in November. You are fooling yourself if you think the Republicans taking over Congress in November will change anything. It won’t, I’ve seen that movie before.

The natural tendency of government is to get bigger, no matter which party is in charge. This is the natural way of things just like the sun rising in the east. Will this health care bill increase the size of government and take liberty from us? Probably, but no more than the Federal Reserve, the IRS, the Social Security system, Medicare, Medicaid, and countless other unconstitutional government programs already have. The politicians and pundits on the right have been ranting and raving about how this health care bill will destroy our country and our liberty, but our liberty is long gone. We are all slaves to the debt. Our debt didn’t just happen overnight or under one President, but we are doing nothing to stop it. If you think the Republicans taking over Congress will solve our debt problem, you are fooling yourself.

It’s easy to see what will happen to us if we keep going down this road. Just look at Greece. The only way to solve our debt problem is to drastically reduce the size of government. A 50% reduction would be great, but that would be only a start. A limited government with a responsible citizenry is the only way out of the mess. I know it’s a lot to ask for but with liberty comes sacrifice and responsibility.

First, we need to dismantle our empire. Our military occupies land in over 150 countries or territories. Why? What are we gaining from this? We need to bring our military back home to their families. We need to remove ourselves from the UN and stop giving them money. We need to remove our embassies from other countries. Our founders gave us a republic, not an empire.  Anything other than a republic is unconstitutional.

Next, we need to abolish our entitlement programs. All of them. We can no longer allow people to think that the government can or will be their “safety net.” We all need to learn to weave our own safety nets of personal responsibility. Asking for help from your family, neighbors, community or religious institution is fine, but you shouldn’t be able to ask the government.

Dismantling our empire and abolishing our entitlement programs would be the first of many steps we need to take to solve our debt problem and limit the size of government back to what the Constitution demands, and they couldn’t happen overnight, but they need to start happening soon if we want to remove from our necks the yoke of debt we have burdened ourselves with. Will the Republicans or Democrats start to make this happen? No, they won’t. They are too busy arguing about federal funding of abortion.

Am I happy about the health care bill? No. Am I happy about anything government does? Not really. Even if this health care bill were repealed, don’t fool yourself, it wouldn’t be a great victory for liberty. To have the liberty our founders wanted would require much more that repealing this health care bill. It is well worth fighting for, but no one in government from either party except Ron Paul is truly fighting for liberty right now. As much as I love Dr. Paul, he cannot lead us to the promised land. We will have to lead ourselves there, one individual at a time, rising up for liberty. I see hope in the Tea Parties, but they must fight from being overtaken by the Republican party or people like Sarah Palin. But that is a topic for another post.

The natural tendency of government is to get bigger and more powerful. It is the natural way of things, just like the sun rising in the east.

A Few Thoughts on the Texas School Board Decision

As I’m sure many of you have already heard, the Texas Board of Education voted last Friday to adopt new K-12 social studies textbook standards for history and economics curriculum. The Texas Board is made up of 15 elected members, 10 Republicans and 5 Democrats. According to the New York Times, the board has put a “conservative stamp” on the curriculum. Since Texas is one of the largest buyers of textbooks in the country, the Board’s decision will have influence on most other state’s curriculum. The new standards are very conservative and the Board’s decision has, predictably, received much praise from those on the right and has raised the ire of those on the left.

I don’t care to dwell on the changes made by the board, if you’re interested in that a simple Google search will give you all the information you need. I want to focus on the teachable moments that this decision has offered us.

First, elections have consequences. In the last election, held on 11/04/2008, there were 7 state school board seats up for grabs. All but one of the seats were won by incumbents because District 6 had no incumbent. The highest vote count in this election was in District 14 where 579,172 people voted in school board race. These school board elections happened on the same night as the Presidential election when voter turnout is always the highest. Over 8 million people in Texas voted that night for President so I guess most of them either forgot to or didn’t care to vote for their school board member. I bring this up because if everyone who voted for Barack Obama, and lived in a District where there was a school board election, had voted for the Democrat running for school board, that would have had a huge impact on the recent curriculum decision. I would bet that most of the people who are bitching and moaning about this school board decision didn’t even take the time to vote for their school board member. Elections have consequences. 

Second, the amount of textbooks that Texas buys shouldn’t affect any other state in the country, but it does. Why is that? There are only three major (and a few minor) companies that publish textbooks in the United States. Since there are so few players in the textbook market, what we end up with is an oligopoly. Oligopolies are not inherently bad, and sometimes can be good depending on the market. However, in the case of the textbook market, an oligopoly is a bad thing. The textbook publishers have no incentive to provide choices. Since states like California and Texas are the biggest states in terms of population, thus the biggest textbook customers, the textbook publishers only need to please them and the other states are forced to deal with it. Also, the K-12 textbook market is a “broken market” since the end consumers (students) do not select the product, and the people choosing the product (faculty) do not purchase the product. Who purchases the product? The government, i.e. taxpayers. 

Which brings me to teachable moment number three. The root cause of this whole brouhaha is the fact that the government has a monopoly on education in our country. Why should a board of 15 people in any state get to decide what does and doesn’t get taught in school? This is what happens when the government runs things. Whether a board or committee is elected or selected, the decisions they make regarding whatever institution or industry they control becomes set in stone. Once this happens it is difficult to change. In the case of the Texas school board, it will be another TEN YEARS before the social studies curriculum is changed again. Ideally the government is supposed to be held accountable by the people, but elections only happen every so often, and even when they do occur, as I mentioned before, voter turnout is usually not very high. If you were a school board member who gets voted into office over and over again by less than 1% of all eligible voters would you really care what the public at large thought about your decisions? Probably not. 

Since I’m a Conservative Libertarian I don’t really have a problem with most of the curriculum decisions that the Texas School Board made. However, if I were a Liberal Democrat I’d be very upset. A liberal parent shouldn’t be forced to send their child to a school that teaches something they don’t believe, but with our current system there is very little choice. Children are indoctrinated by whomever runs the school system at any given time. No wonder test scores have remained stagnant for over 30 years. The people who run our schools care more about their personal political agendas rather than educating our children to make them the best and brightest in the world.   

Ironically, the very thing that could solve this problem is something that Liberals are completely against: privatizing the school system. If there wasn’t a government monopoly on education schools would be forced to compete with each other, and you could send your child to the school whose views most closely resembled your own. There could be Liberal schools and Conservative schools, although I doubt that it would breakdown that way. The breakdown would more likely be schools that can teach your child to think and succeed in the world and schools that can’t.

Media Weapons of Massa Distraction

The big story out of Washington this week is the resignation of New York Congressman Eric Massa. The details are a quick Google search away if you’re interested. Massa went on Glenn Beck’s show this week to tell his story. It was a boring interview and nothing interesting came out of it. Beck himself said he wasted our time by having the interview and that the story didn’t matter to any of us personally. I agree with Beck in this instance. This story doesn’t matter to any of us at all.

In the realm of political sex scandals, Massa’s scandal is farm league. There were no hookers or blow, no oral sex, no dead bodies- only ‘tickle fights.’ This should have been a one day story in the news at the most but it’s turning into a huge cabal. Today, the House Republicans are spreading rumors that they are going to ask the House Ethics Committee to investigate Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader for their handling of information about misbehavior by Congressman Massa. This is completely unnecessary and it’s obvious they’re doing this to get back at the Democrats for the whole Mark Foley scandal in 2006. Thank you House Republicans for standing up and fighting for the American people, I can’t wait until you guys are in charge again.  

This is a total waste of time. As Glenn Beck said, this story doesn’t affect any of us personally at all. It’s about as important as the Balloon Boy or Tiger Woods story. Unfortunately, stories like these that pass for ‘news’ today.

While everyone is distracted by this stupid story, Pelosi is no doubt behind the scenes, working alongside the White House, arm twisting the fence sitters in their caucus to vote for the unpopular health care bill that will literally affect every single person in the country. Did you know that they want to add a provision to the health care bill that would completely overhaul the nation’s student loan program and require the Education Department to originate all student assistance loans, effectively eliminating a role for banks and other private lenders. For those of you keeping score, Obama has taken over two car companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and potentially the entire health care system and the student loan industry.  Still think Obama isn’t a socialist?    

 Health care isn’t the only thing they’re working on right now either. Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are meeting with Obama today to talk about immigration reform. According to the Politico, the Schumer-Graham plan “includes a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (a liberal must-have) while sweetening the pot for moderates by proposing tough new safeguards, including a biometric national ID card for workers.”

A biometric national ID card!?!? Are you f***ing kidding me? ‘Moderates’ are in favor of this? Apparently so. Bill O’Reilly talked about it on his show this week with Lou Dobbs and they were both all for it. The Wall Street Journal said the proposal was only “potentially controversial.” I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Does liberty even matter anymore?

As if a government takeover of health care/student loans and the National ID cards aren’t bad enough, ABC News reported that the Tresasury Department announced yesterday that “the government racked up a record-high monthly budget deficit of $220.9 billion in February.” (Remember, February is the shortest month of the year.)

According to ABC: 

The latest flood of red ink brings the total deficit for the first five months of the current fiscal year to $651 billion, far exceeding the $589 billion shortfall for the same timeframe in the last fiscal year. The government ended the 2009 fiscal year with a record $1.4 trillion shortfall. The Obama administration has forecast a $1.56 trillion deficit for this year.

 That speaks for itself. If you still believe anything that Obama says about ushering in a new era of responsibility, cutting deficits, deficit neturality, or reducing the national debt you’re an idiot. 

 So while everyone in the media is using the Massa scandal to get ratings the government takes away more of our liberty. I guess it’s just a slow news day.

SEIU Stages Mass Citizens Arrest. Shouldn’t They Be Working?

The Service Employes International Union (SEIU) is marching on Washington DC today to conduct a “mass citizens arrest” of the insurance companies. They joined forces with Health Care for America Now (HCAN) and  started a “posse… to put the insurance companies and every corporate enemy of change on notice.” Apparently Big Insurance CEO’s are having a gathering today at the Ritz Carlton to “kill health care reform once and for all.”  SEIU claims that “massive rate hikes are bringing in huge profits and perks for the insurance companies. Profits are at an all-time high, and companies like Anthem are spending tens of millions of dollars to fly their executives around the country for lavish retreats.”  

 

Supposedly “thousands” of people will attend this rally. That doesn’t surprise me since SEIU has over 2 million members and getting a group of them together shouldn’t be too hard. Especially when you can just bus them in. According to the SEIU blog: “Health care activists spilled off of buses that traveled from DE, CT, MD, MN, VA, NJ, NC, NY, OH, PA, RI to be here today.”  

 These type of demonstrations are textbook examples of “Astroturf” gatherings. These people went to this gathering because they were told to by their union bosses. They want health care reform because they were told they want it. They are nothing but drones. They chant cute meaningless slogans like” What do we Want? Health care! When do we want it? Now!” They all carry signs that were mass-produced (probably by an evil printing corporation) and handed out to them by the organizers.  

They can’t even think for themselves when using social media. On twitter they are all sending out this tweet: “ARREST THEM! Help put @AHIPHIWIRE under citizens arrest for crimes like denying care & blocking health reform: http://is.gd/9Mk2f” If you click on that link they invite you to “Saddle up” and join their “posse” and then they send a fax in your name. (I’m not sure where the fax goes.)    

Here are some pictures from the rally:    

    

      

       

       

We’re pretending to be corporate fat cats!

      

We can't think ourselves long enough to make our own signs!

Only 12% of the workforce today in the US are members of Unions. Nine out of every ten workers in the private sector do not belong to unions. They do not represent the interest of “the working man” anymore, if they ever did. Unions have helped destroy once great American industries like the steel industry and the auto industry. Unions are completely irrelevant in today’s economy and the only reason anyone pays any attention to unions at all is because they make a lot of noise. They are powerful only when Democrats are in power.   

       

Health Care: The Immortal Bill

Health-care reform. It was born over a year ago behind closed doors in Washington, D.C. It is IMMORTAL. It is not alone. There are other like it: cap-and-trade, card-check, immigration reform, and financial regulation reform. Now is the time of THE GATHERING when an up or down vote from the House and Senate and the stroke of the Presidents pen will release THE QUICKENING that will destroy our health-care system and take away our health-care liberty. In the end there can be only one: single payer.

 

Que Queen Music.

Even Democrats Think EPA Carbon Emission Regulation Goals Are Bat-Poop Crazy

Well, at least one Democrat thinks so. Senator John D. Rockefeller of West Virginia will introduce a bill today that effectively stops the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide for at least two years.

For those of you who aren’t aware, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the stuff we humans, and most other mammals exhale. CO2 is also a by-product of burning fossil fuels. 

Republicans like Lisa Murkowski have already introduced legislation to reign in the power of the EPA, but Rockefeller’s bill is significant because it shows that even Democrats know that regulating a trace gas that is essential to life on our planet is bat-poop crazy.

Environmentalist are not happy, however, and are urging President Obama to veto the Rockefeller bill if it ever gets to his desk. They see the bill as “a dangerous precedent and a serious blow to the administration’s ability to cope with climate change if Congress fails to pass a bill.”

Can someone tell me how regulating carbon dioxide will help us cope with climate change? Do you really think that if we lower the amount of carbon dioxide we produce that it will have a significant impact on anything? Also, does anyone else think it is dangerous that the President can use an un-elected regulatory body to do his bidding if Congress doesn’t pass the bill he wants? Why even have a Congress?

Hopefully more Democrats will see the light and fight against this inappropriate use of the EPA. It may be too little too late though, especially if the EPA decides that it is going to do what ever it wants to do, Congress be damned.

For more information about Rockefeller’s bill, see this article from The Washington Post