The White House turn over documents? Now there's a joke. Anything with cheney's fingerprints on it are already shredded. Better impeach before these clowns are out of office and safely on South American ranches or deserted islands with Kenny-boy Lay. At least it would give us something good to watch on TV.

The most telling part of the article is the sentence : "an EPA spokesman shrugged off todays' congressional report as a retread..." This is the cavalier in-your-face attitude of the goons running our country now. It's a form of organized crime, and they now have the armed forces and police at their beck and call. Any protest is either violently squelched or shrugged off as irrelevant. It's pretty amazing to see 300 million people cowed by that gang of thugs.

Besides the fact outline in the article it also pisses me off that I have to read it from a paper in the UK. Has anyone out there seen it in any form of U.S. print or T.V.?

Another example of many showing that the USA is run by a bunch of wanna-be third world fascists.

Selling out the environment and humanity for the sake of a profit-from the bush White House? That's so hard to believe!

Would that they join Kenny Boy Lay - he's dead. Didn't survive long enough to enjoy his ill-gotten gains, oh the tragedy. We can only hope a similar fate awaits Bushco to a man and woman.

More of the same. As long as the American people tolerate this regime, this will continue.

"Would that they join Kenny Boy Lay - he's dead"

Are you sure of that? Maybe you saw on the news that he had had a heart attack and died, but that is not quite the same, is it?

Although I do believe that Elvis is dead.

From the article: "The state would have required a 30% reduction in tailpipe emissions from cars by 2016, dealing a blow to auto industry profits."

More weasel-words. Why would that deal a blow to auto-industry profits? You think they wouldn't charge you more for using less fuel? And it won't be merely US manufacturers, it would be everyone. ANd why wait another 8 years?

CJM - You have a valid point; I did bite on the MSM "news". Kenny-Boy may well be already waiting for Georgie-Boy in Paraguay (the once and apparently future Nazi refuge) as we type. He and Cheney are probably still making energy "policy".

The auto/energy industry has consistently bought out every engineering design for fuel efficient cars and engines, alternative fuel engines, you name it. Instead of running with the ideas, innovating, and thus making a bundle, they have elected to die with the old technology, and drag us all down with them. It seems to me big energy would have always been big energy, whether it was oil or wind or solar energy they were big on. They could have led the way into the new millenium. But our government-funded crony corporate capitalism is exceptionally short-sighted (witness the anticipation and gnashing of teeth over each HOURLY change in the stock market) and an incredibly stupid way to run a country. The American in the street has been duped into believing Capitalism = Democracy. It doesn't, and we're in this mess until the big bang. Whether it will be a stock market crash or precipitous sea level rise is the only remaining question.

Since 2003 all of the federal agencies have been turned into adminstrative machinations for George Bush and his political-financial contributors. This administration has dismantled almost every agency whose statuory role is enforcing laws not breaking them. The agencies were all too willing to go along with their caretakers. Not even NASA (Never A Straight Answer) was immune from their over reach.

In July of 2003 they (NASA) carefully crafted CFR-1275 (Investigation of Rsearch Misconduct) fearing the Bush Adminstration may not be around the next election; to protect themselves from massive exposure of scientific misconduct. The DoJ was looking into this, albeit dragging their feet until after the second (fake term was in place) and then dismissed everything. This CFR was codified and entered without comment in Ocotber of that year, and just after the inauguration G. Bush came out in a press briefing and announced a mission to the Moon and Mars. (This was a multi-billion reward to NASA and the military defense establishment for helping re-elect him to office a second term). Luky for you the public we recorded all of these fake agencies and their transaction(s) and connected the dots for coming generations. We thought it was really strange an anti-science illiterate came out in public to announce such a mission. Our Servers recorded most all of the transactions and time frames.

SRD
http://www.bccmeteorites.com/misconduct-planetary.html

A chief feature of the totalitarian mindset is that every function of government and every aspect of civil society has to be polarly politicized.

Everything is intentionally framed by the powerholders to reflect an 'us versus them' way of seeing and acting. Truth is decreed to only be what the powerholders say it is. And the findings of science - being the most objective method humans have of ascertaining truth, have to be politically controlled with extra strictness.

Just a few decades ago, Americans use to laugh at countries like the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for operating on such primitive, fear-based principles. So it seems like a double historical irony that just when many long-standing totalitarian societies finally began moving away from their self-defeating principles, a gaggle of super-primitive goons led by Bush/Cheney/Rove, hyper-spouting the virtues of democracy as a calculated distraction, managed to draw America itself down into the same kind of raw human idiocy they pretended to decry elsewhere.

But the irony is only seeming. Just underneath its high gloss surface, the USA has for a long time been closer to becoming its own political opposite than most of its citizens ever cared to see or admit. Proof of this is the speed at which the transition to official tyranny has been made -and the appalling lack of public resistance to it.