Yesterday I got started on a little tirade about the EPA, thanks to this inane comment by one of California’s dimmest Senators, Barbara Boxer.  Here’s the situation.  Everyone in Congress wants to see a payroll tax extension.  So the Republicans attached a few other goodies to their version of the payroll tax extension.  This included a provision to expedite the Keystone Pipeline bill and some to delay EPA regulations on industrial boilers.  The boiler provisions are what led Barbara Boxer to make this statement …

"They have attached a poison pill — literally, colleagues — because it will kill 8,100 more people more than would have otherwise been killed from pollution.”

Wade through the ocean of this woman’s intelligence and you would barely get your feet wet.  The fact is that the EPA and its regulatory spree is affecting jobs and our economy.  Don’t believe me, believe the courts.

The Environmental Protection Agency is in the midst of a regulatory spree of unprecedented proportions … In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the EPA’s actions in adopting the regulation were “arbitrary and capricious,” in that it had failed to give adequate notice to manufacturers.

You can read all about the details of this ruling on cement storage, but the fact is that the EPA and much of the environmental movement have little concern for our environment.  The truth is that the environmental movement in this country and around the world is nothing but the table scraps of the communist era.  These are people who were at one time dedicated to the destruction of capitalism.  The recent shenanigans with the UN and the Durban agreement is a prime example of the true nature of this movement.

But you don’t have to believe me.  You can believe Patrick Moore.  Who is Patrick Moore?  He happens to be the founder of a little organization called Greenpeace.  He is a self-proclaimed “radical environmentalist.”  Years ago Moore walked away from the organization, explaining how the fall of communism brought about a lot of anti-corporate extremism to the environmental movement. Here's his explanation:

" ..... suddenly, the international peace movement had a lot less to do. Pro-Soviet groups in the West were discredited. Many of their members moved into the environmental movement, bringing with them their eco-Marxism and pro-Sandinista sentiments.

A lot of those in the peace movement were anti-American and, to an extent, pro-Soviet. By virtue of their anti-Americanism, they tended to sometimes favor the communist approach. A lot of those people, a lot of those social activists, moved into the environmental movement once the peace movement was no longer relevant."

Moore went on to say that these environmental activists " are now using the rhetoric of environmentalism to promote other collectivist agendas, such as class struggle..."

Belinda and I had a little family squabble over this issue on the air yesterday.  If you want to take a listen, just click here [8:22].  We promise you will enjoy.  Then again … maybe not.  It’s actually painful.  Guess we’ll have to kiss and make up.