They say you
can't put a price on your reputation. But former public officials are proving
otherwise.
Former
Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christie Todd
Whitman signed a recent New York Times op-ed along with three other
Republican former administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency. The op-ed argued that Obama's
climate action "would deliver real progress."
The article
praises Obama for using "his executive powers to require reductions in the
amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the nation's power plants ..." The
writers also endorsed Obama unilaterally acting to "spur increased
investment in clean energy technology."
The op-ed doesn't offer much in the way of evidence or argument. It
does, however, lean heavily on their reputations: "As administrators of
the E.P.A. under Presidents Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and George W. Bush,
we held fast to common-sense conservative principles ......Whitman runs
the Whitman Strategy
Group......clients included solar energy companies......In the end,
WSG's "forecasting report played a significant part in the company's
decision to move forward and purchase the air quality consulting firm."
In other
words, Whitman's client wanted to enter a business whose profit depends on
federal regulation of greenhouse gasses. Her firm "forecast[ed]" such
regulations, thus convincing her client to enter the business - and on the
pages of the New York Times, she is advocating these very same regulations.....ToRead More......
My Take - Where
was Whitman governor before? Wasn’t' it New Jersey? Who's governor there now?
The style may be different, but this is a case of six of one or half dozen of
the other. Republican governors of New Jersey aren’t conservatives or they
wouldn’t be elected. They work well across they ailse because they are, in large part, in harmony with the left. Get over it!
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