Bush Trashing the Environment

[Louis VI the Fat]

1 That’s rather ignorant to assume that everyone appointed by a president is his puppet.

2 I’d also like to know what you believe the function of the EPA is after a natural disaster.

3 I’d also like to see how any branch of government runs a hotdog stand.

1 A judge is appointed, but independent. The administrator of the EPA is not independent. He is part of the...administration. It is a political position, at near cabinet level. 31st of January, 2001, the Democratic administrator of the EPA was replaced by a Republican.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrator_of_the_Environmental_Protection_AgencyThe Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the head of the United States federal government's Environmental Protection Agency, and is thus responsible for enforcing the nation's Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, as well as numerous other environmental statutes. The Administrator is nominated by the President of the United States and must be confirmed by a vote of the Senate. The office of Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 in legislation that created the Environmental Protection Agency.

The EPA Administrator is customarily accorded Cabinet rank by the President and sits with the President, Vice President, and the 15 Cabinet Secretaries. Since the late 1980s, there has been a movement to make the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency a Cabinet Secretary, thus making the EPA a 16th Cabinet department, dealing with environmental affairs. The Administrator of the EPA is equivalent to the position of Minister of the Environment in other countries.

2 The EPA assesses the environmental effects of a natural disaster. Which they pretty much botched up after both 9-11 and Katrina.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Hurricane Katrina presented not only a human tragedy, but also one of the biggest environmental stories of the new millennium. Even after days of criticism that the federal government didn't do enough to help hurricane victims, federal agencies compounded the problem by failing to respond adequately to journalists' environmental questions.

The event gave the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a chance to show that it had learned lessons from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when the agency was broadly criticized for withholding information and downplaying risks. Instead, EPA appears to have taken the same tight-lipped approach in responding to Katrina, denying the public crucial information collected with taxpayers' money on behalf of taxpayers in the first place.

3 In the case of the EPA under Bush, the hotdogs will be toxic, mock scientific reports will show that they are not, your child will get cancer from eating it, Bush will pardon the people responsible shortly before leaving office


Edit: What am I saying!? It is much worse than this. Bush will not pardon them, he goes one better. He will make it perfectly legal to sell toxic hotdogs, to prevent even civil lawsuits.