It's good to be king a protected unelected bureaucrat. Once hired you can make stupid statements, stupid laws and threats and nada can be done to you. You can mix your personal missions with science, stir the beaker and , viola! You have settled science and a fun afternoon of crucifying those who disagree.
This is how the left does its business. At least they used to have enough shame to contain it to coffee houses and faculty lounges,
In the video, Administrator
Armendariz says:
“I
was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff about
my philosophy of
enforcement, and I think it was probably a little crude and maybe not
appropriate for the meeting, but I’ll go ahead and tell you what I said:
“It
was kind of like how the Romans used to, you
know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go in to a little
Turkish town somewhere, they’dfind
the first five guys they saw and they’d crucify them.
“Then,
you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”
“It’s a deterrent factor,” Armendariz said, explaining that the
EPA is following the Romans’ philosophy for subjugating conquered villages.
Soon after Armendariz touted the EPA’s “philosophy,” the EPA began
smear campaigns against natural gas producers, Inhofe’s office noted in advance
of today’s Senate speech:
“Not long after Administrator Armendariz made these
comments in 2010, EPA targeted US natural gas producers in Pennsylvania, Texas
and Wyoming.
“In all three of these cases, EPA initially made headline-grabbing
statements either insinuating or proclaiming outright that the use of hydraulic
fracturing by American energy producers was the cause of water contamination,
but in each case their comments were premature at best – and despite their most
valiant efforts, they have been unable to find any sound scientific evidence to
make this link.”
This is how the left does its business. At least they used to have enough shame to contain it to coffee houses and faculty lounges,
