Rick Perry: The EPA ‘Won’t Know What Hit ‘Em’

[FrenchieCat]

Rick Perry: The EPA ‘Won’t Know What Hit ‘Em’

Speaking at a campaign stop in his home state yesterday, Texas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Perry announced his intentions to make the Environmental Protection Agency unapologetically pro-pollution.

His remarks were reported by the Houston Chronicle:

“I’ll tell you one thing: The EPA officials we have an opportunity to put in place, they’re going to be pro-business, and there’s not going to be any apologies to anybody about it,” he said. “Those agencies won’t know what hit ‘em.”

It’s not hard to see why Perry would want environmental regulations to be crafted by polluters, considering that he’s taken $11 million from the oil and gas industry since 1998. Meanwhile, Perry has stepped up his attacks on climate science by falsely claiming that researchers manipulated data for money.

more.... http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/09/06/312161/rick-perry-the-epa-won%E2%80%99t-know-what-hit-%E2%80%98em/

[greymattermom]

1. while Texas burns...

[angee_is_mad]

5. exactly!

Amazing how being stupid is so damn American now.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Nice to know that he's being upfront about it

Hope somebody in the Obama campaign saved that bit.

[tularetom]

3. The citizens however will know what "hit 'em"

Like lung cancer, emphysema, e.coli, and various other water and air borne killers.

[KT2000]

4. He stands for assault and

murder. What a guy. And now, rather than destrotying just communities, it has gone global.

[OwnedByFerrets]

6. Fuck the earth, fuck the air, fuck the water....they're all overrated

[ibegurpard]

7. and yet he complains about the federal response for Texas with the fires

[and-justice-for-all]

8. I dont think Perry will not know whats going to hit him...

He will be going down in flames.

[FrenchieCat]

9. let us pray!

or whatever...! :)

[LatteLibertine]

10. Flammable rivers! Yee haw!!

Fuck you, Perry. I'll be doing everything in my power to make sure you aren't elected.