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Obama Pulls Back Plan to Tighten Air-Quality Rules
By JOHN M. BRODER
After intense lobbying by industry, the White House overruled a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce emissions of smog-causing chemicals.
-- NYT's headline
That sounds like our Obama. See, Rick Perry could do that just as well. I understand that Obama's heart is presumably in the right place, but what difference does it make if they always wind up in the same position, stiffing the poor and the weak and the environment in favor of the wealthy and the powerful?
By JOHN M. BRODER
After intense lobbying by industry, the White House overruled a plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce emissions of smog-causing chemicals.
-- NYT's headline
That sounds like our Obama. See, Rick Perry could do that just as well. I understand that Obama's heart is presumably in the right place, but what difference does it make if they always wind up in the same position, stiffing the poor and the weak and the environment in favor of the wealthy and the powerful?
