3 thoughts on “Two “balls” on tap to celebrate Trump inauguration”

1. I hear AG Cynthia's event is having a coal sludge toast in honor of her latest attempt to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over regulations to protect streams from coal mining. 

   Thirteen states are asking a federal judge to block a last-minute Obama administration environmental rule aimed at preventing coal mines from fouling thousands of miles of streams.

   Because while clean water is important, it will hardly fund a SuperPAC! So protecting the public'c health and environmental sustainability should go the way of NATO, I suppose, to obsolescence! 

   The Interior Department said the new rule will protect 6,000 miles of streams and 52,000 acres of forests, preventing debris from coal mining from being dumped into nearby waters. The rule would maintain a buffer zone that blocks coal mining within 100 feet of streams, but would impose stricter guidelines for exceptions to the 100-foot rule.

   Because "everyday Americans" don't need clean water! And nothing says "everyday" like a well-heeled DC-based fossil fuel lobbyist! 

   Hal Quinn, president of the National Mining Association, a lobbying group that represents coal producers, called the rule a “post-election midnight regulation” that is “a win for bureaucracy and extreme environmental groups and a loss for everyday Americans.”

   Cynthia Sue-the-Feds Coffman gets an assist from our own "Louie Gohmert of Colorado politics" Doug Lamborn! 

   Republicans have already targeted several of the last-minute Obama administration rules under the Congressional Review Act, which gives Congress 60 legislative days to overturn proposed rules. Reps. Evan Jenkins (R-W.Va.) and Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) have introduced measures to overturn the Stream Protection Rule, and Republicans hope the incoming Trump administration can overturn the law.

   The injustice of requiring massive multinational corporations to clean up their own mess? What are U.S. taxpayers for? 

   The rule would require companies to restore streams and return mined areas to conditions similar to those before mining took place. Companies also would have to replant native trees and vegetation.

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2. Curious that the Inauguration Ball is somehow celebrating a

   "Historic Victory of Our Country"

   Generally, I've considered Historic Victories as outcomes of a military battle or at least a milestone of a government program. Trump, with a relatively narrow Electoral College win (46th of 58 elections), a loss of popular vote, and declining approval ratings in the polls before his Inauguration, scarcely seems to rise to such ballyhoo.

    

    

    

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   1. Our Country, Mother Russia. 

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