Obama Watch

On Monday, President Barack Obama directed the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider a waiver request by California and 13 other states to set standards on auto emissions – including those of greenhouse gases – that are tougher than federal standards.....Interesting....so the Candidiate for change is not saying that the national standard s/b raised, but rather he is asking the EPA to consider allowing individual states to set their own higher standards
....a few things here.....if it works , obama is a hero , the tree huggers love him...what a visionary....if it ends up destroying the automobile industry in those states because they cannot either meet the standard on time or it costs too much to make the new cars, if hundreds of thousands of automobile workers loose their Jobs because wackos like Califorinia set unrealistic standards...well then that's the EPA's problem, not obamas....teflon.

More importantly...am I to have the audacity to hope that this will be a common theme for this administration? that individual States will be allowed to govern themselves and not be subject to the Federal Standard? That an alliance of 13 states can actually stray from under big brothers thumb ?

The World Wonders....

What if next month those 13 states decide that they want to toughen the federal laws with relation to performing abortions ? IE deciding for themselves when life begins instead of having the Federal Govts standard forced down their collective throats? Will Obama ask the Surgeon General to "reconsider" a waiver request to allow these 13 states to prohibit abortions after the first trimester?

Time will Tell.