Whatever you say. Thats anecdotal evidence at best. Welcome to the forum.
Now, back to topic.
At least it's from an eyewitness, not a second or third hand polemic.
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Whatever you say. Thats anecdotal evidence at best. Welcome to the forum.
Now, back to topic.
Overtly Political management. Attempts to co-opt career employees. Mismanagement.
Issuing regulations outside statutory authority.
Incompetent political appointees.
Add this to the general mismanagement in the Federal government in this Administration and you have disaster.
Dot.com asked American Girl 05 for specific examples of the Obama administration ruining the EPA (where she worked)
Overtly Political management. Attempts to co-opt career employees. Mismanagement.
Issuing regulations outside statutory authority.
Incompetent political appointees.
Add this to the general mismanagement in the Federal government in this Administration and you have disaster.
1) Could you give an example of "overtly political management"? What management decisions/choices/actions did you witness that you believe were driven by politics and not by rational concerns for the environment?
2) What regulations do you believe were issued outside of statutory authority (and I'm familiar with recent SCOTUS decisions*)?
3) What political appointees to the EPA do you believe were incompetent?
* Here's a decent link: Supreme Court limits EPA s authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions The Rundown PBS NewsHour
Dot.com asked American Girl 05 for specific examples of the Obama administration ruining the EPA (where she worked)
Overtly Political management. Attempts to co-opt career employees. Mismanagement.
Issuing regulations outside statutory authority.
Incompetent political appointees.
Add this to the general mismanagement in the Federal government in this Administration and you have disaster.
1) Could you give an example of "overtly political management"? What management decisions/choices/actions did you witness that you believe were driven by politics and not by rational concerns for the environment?
1. I know of senior employees investigated at the behest of the Administrator's office because they invited someone to speak in a training series who had criticized Obama.
2) What regulations do you believe were issued outside of statutory authority (and I'm familiar with recent SCOTUS decisions*)?
2. The current ones under review and more that are being developed. They take a long time to promulgate.
3) What political appointees to the EPA do you believe were incompetent?
3. The question would be, which ones in the Obama Administration WERE competent? (Well, actually, I do know of one. One.) If you watched any of the Issa hearings on the John Beale matter (the guy who went to jail for claiming falsely he was working for the CIA and EPA), I think the Deputy Administrator, Persciappe, did not acquit himself well. I think Lisa Jackson was a joke. The head of Administration had to leave because of several scandals on his watch. As I said, there's ONE Obama appointee (and that person resigned several years ago) I though was competent. The rest -- you can have them.
Dot.com asked American Girl 05 for specific examples of the Obama administration ruining the EPA (where she worked)
Overtly Political management. Attempts to co-opt career employees. Mismanagement.
Issuing regulations outside statutory authority.
Incompetent political appointees.
Add this to the general mismanagement in the Federal government in this Administration and you have disaster.
1) Could you give an example of "overtly political management"? What management decisions/choices/actions did you witness that you believe were driven by politics and not by rational concerns for the environment?
1. I know of senior employees investigated at the behest of the Administrator's office because they invited someone to speak in a training series who had criticized Obama.
Can you explain how you have knowledge of the motivations of the Administrator's office?
2) What regulations do you believe were issued outside of statutory authority (and I'm familiar with recent SCOTUS decisions*)?
2. The current ones under review and more that are being developed. They take a long time to promulgate.
Could you perhaps give us a few specific examples of regulations in the review or promulgation process that you believe are outside statutorial authority?
3) What political appointees to the EPA do you believe were incompetent?
3. The question would be, which ones in the Obama Administration WERE competent? (Well, actually, I do know of one. One.) If you watched any of the Issa hearings on the John Beale matter (the guy who went to jail for claiming falsely he was working for the CIA and EPA), I think the Deputy Administrator, Persciappe, did not acquit himself well. I think Lisa Jackson was a joke. The head of Administration had to leave because of several scandals on his watch. As I said, there's ONE Obama appointee (and that person resigned several years ago) I though was competent. The rest -- you can have them.
Bob Perisciappe was the EPA Deputy Administrator in 1997 (see http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/files/2013/06/Volume-4-•-Issue-1.pdf). He was not an Obama appointee.
Lisa Jackson has a very impressive CV (Lisa P. Jackson - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia) : chemical engineer, 16 years in the EPA, NJ Department of Environmental Protection, rising to be its commissioner and then becoming the governor's Chief of Staff before being appointed the Commissioner of the EPA. The only points generally held against her (if you don't work for the fossil fuel industry or make a living involving he release of toxins into the environment) are her testimony that (in May of 2011) she knew of no instances where fracking was directly responsible for groundwater contamination and her use of a private email account to conduct business. The contents of that account have been released to the public and I know of no finding therein of criminal conduct. Jackson resigned rather than preside over the approval of the Keystone pipeline. You'll have to tell me why you believe her to be professionally incompetent.
As far as Lisa Jackson is concerned, you are quoting her resume. You have no knowledge of her actual performance in office (abysmal). She was only interested in media attention for the Obama initiatives. My objections to her are because of her management style. Her interest was not in managing the agency. She was petty, Political (the capitalization is intentional) and an Obamabot..
Again, how do you know the motivations of the Administration in the case to which you refer? They would not have admitted to an illegal or inappropriate action and you didn't say they did. Did the person being investigated tell you they were being investigated because they'd hired someone who'd criticized the president?
"The carbon dioxide regs are ridiculous" is an unsubstantiated assertion. If one accepts the view of a very large majority of the experts, they are significantly less strict than the regulation that ought to be in place.
Persciappe did serve as the Deputy Commisioner under Obama, but he was put in that position by the Bush administration.
How do you explain this quote: "
Memorandum from Deputy Administrator Bob Persciappe (EPA) to Regional
Administrators 4-7 (Aug. 8, 1997)" from http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/files/2013/06/Volume-4-•-Issue-1.pdf ?
The president of the United States in 1997 was... umm.... not George Bush. Cerebral Flatulence has struck. I lost eight years in there somewhere. My apologies. A Clinton appointee. Got it.
Regarding your speaker: when they "brought them to speak", I assume they paid them. Thus they hired them. When the Administrator's office criticized this choice of speaker, or this event... did they actually say anything along the lines of "we object to you bringing in a speaker that has criticized the President"?
Regarding your opinion of the CO2 regulations: do you accept AGW as valid?