A Personal Note Only For Those Who Voted for Obama
By SusanUnPC on May 16, 2009 at 12:21 PM in Arrogance, Arugula (Elitism), Backtrack Obama, Flip Flopping, Hoodwinking, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises
You’re a bunch of friggin’ idiots. As if Obama’s broken promises on FISA, Guantanamo, Iraq, military tribunals and _____ (just add to the list) weren’t enough to convince you — as well as your appointment of Ken Salazar, a proponent of Bush-era environmental standards and an opponent of wildlife protection, as Secretary of the Interior — now you have these headlines:
Obama Nominates Superfund Polluter Lawyer To Run DOJ Environment Division
UPDATE: Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal
Obama appointed an attorney who defended major polluters to head up the DOJ’s environmental division? Doesn’t that sound like what George Bush used to do?
And who made the DOJ announcement? Why it’s the George Soros-backed Center for American Progress. When are you, and your buddies at MoveOn, the ACLU, and the Center for American Progress going to get a clue? Obama is solely interested in helping big corporations and has NO interest in any principals, let alone the “little people.”
Here’s the story, straight from the Center for American Progress:
GM cleanup of the Bedford Superfund site.President Barack Obama has nominated a lawyer for the nation’s largest toxic polluters to run the enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws. On Tuesday, Obama “announced his intent to nominate” Ignacia S. Moreno to be Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division in the Department of Justice. Moreno, general counsel for that department during the Clinton administration, is now the corporate environmental counsel for General Electric, “America’s #1 Superfund Polluter“:
Number five in the Fortune 500 with revenues of $89.3 billion and earnings of $8.2 billion in 1997, General Electric has been a leader in the effort to roll back the Superfund law and stave off any requirements for full cleanup and restoration of sites they helped create.
This February, General Electric lost an eight-year battle to “prove that parts of the Superfund law are unconstitutional.” One of the 600-person DOJ environmental division’s “primary responsibilities is to enforce federal civil and criminal environmental laws such as” the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Superfund.
Before General Electric, Moreno worked as a corporate attorney at Spriggs and Hollingsworth. Moreno’s name is found in the Westlaw database as an attorney defending General Motors in another Superfund case, the GM Powertrain facility in Bedford, Indiana:
Historical uses and management of PCB containing hydraulic oils and PCB impacted materials has contaminated on-site areas as well as the sediment and floodplain soil within Bailey’s Branch and the Pleasant Run Creek watershed.
Although General Motors entered into an agreement in 2001 with the EPA to clean up the site, a number of local residents whose land has been contaminated by polychorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have sued for damages in Allgood v. GM (now Barlow v. GM), in a contentious and caustic dispute over cleanup, monitoring, and lost property values.
During the Clinton administration, Moreno was involved in another controversial case, unsuccessfully defending the Secretary of Commerce’s decision to weaken the dolphin-safe tuna standard. In Brower v. Daley, Earth Island Institute, The Humane Society of the United States, and other individuals and organizations brought suit against the United States government for actions that were “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and contrary to law,” winning their case in 2000.
UPDATE: Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal
Even as House Democrats are celebrating their deal with conservative-leaning colleagues on climate change legislation, the real winners under the compromise have been the coal, electric and auto industries, who are largely the source of the nation’s carbon emissions to begin with.
Details of the compromise are still emerging, but already the chief sponsors of the measure — Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) — have been forced to lower carbon-reduction targets, cut renewable fuel standards and dole out billions of dollars in benefits to the nation’s largest polluting industries. Many environmentalists say the compromise comes at the too-high cost of undermining the bill’s very purpose, which is to slash emissions dramatically enough to prevent a warming planet from heating further. Some are asking Democrats either to bolster the environmental protections or to scrap the proposal altogether. …
I wish I could laugh at you. But I’m too upset about Obama’s utter disregard for the issues precious to the Democratic party.
Had you idiots supported Hillary Clinton, you wouldn’t have had to worry about a Superfund attorney being appointed.
Hillary also made a promise to end presidential signing statements. And, unlike Obama, she meant it.
NoQuarter regulars: PLEASE — for the sake of the ignorant who voted for Obama — fill out a list of other issues on which the pro-Obama supporters could have counted on Hillary backing.
And if you Obama supporters still don’t have a CLUE, here’s why Obama will always side with the big corporations: Their executives have the MONEY he needs to win his elections. Forget that tripe about small donations — that was all a big lie, helped along by the likes of ACORN, in order to induce FOOLS into supporting Obama.
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