Wow, so, maybe the/a tied Senate is emboldening Bush to break out his bat brained ideas again, but this is just plain loopy. Maybe a case of Rapture Fever. Or maybe he's just crazy like a fox, an oil-slicked fox laden with lead. Or maybe he is suggesting something so crazy no one will talk about Iraq for days.
I can just see them all giggling at the Republican Caucus, saying that obviously it is okay to use lead again since it has vanished from the air. You know, till our air is full of a lead again and we have start all over.
Makes you wonder exactly how many dumptrucks full of money they had to drive up to his ranch in Crawford to pull this off.
Sad truth from CNN below:
http://www.cnn.com/...
EPA: Leaded gas may return, along with lower standards
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration is considering doing away with health standards that cut lead from gasoline, widely regarded as one of the nation's biggest clean-air accomplishments.
The Environmental Protection Agency said this week that revoking those standards might be justified "given the significantly changed circumstances since lead was listed in 1976" as an air pollutant, claiming that concentrations of lead in the air have dropped more than 90 percent in the past 2 1/2 decades. Battery makers, lead smelters, refiners all have lobbied the administration to do away with the Clean Air Act limits.
But Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the incoming chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, called on the agency to "renounce this dangerous proposal immediately," because lead, a highly toxic element, can cause severe nerve damage, especially in children.
Ah so, I checked my archives and found this:
Classic.
Update via kindertotenlieder:
http://www.latimes.com/...
Good background of how we got to this tomfoolery. And tomfoolery it is.