Over the weekend, I heard Bush's EPA Administrator, Mike Leavitt, saying that since the election was a mandate for Bush, we could expect more of the same environmental "reform" from the President the next four years.
Really? Since the environment wasn't a factor in anyone's decision on who to support for President, how could the election be a mandate to pollute?
It was no mandate to pollute.
It's enough to make you wish we could order our Presidents a la carte. Let's see...tough on terrorism; tough on polluters; committed to education; genuinely worried about assuring opportunity for the disadvantaged, etc.
Or maybe we should just turn the job of EPA Administrator into a national elective office. Some things are just too important to be left to Presidents.
Posted by Dave at November 8, 2004 10:14 AM