Proposed EPA water rule lights up Capitol Hill fireworks

By Zack Colman | July 8, 2014

First, the EPA was coming for farmers' and ranchers' private property. Next, roadside ditches. And, finally, Fourth of July fireworks.  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy described the haranguing her agency has received over its proposed "Waters of the U.S." rule this way: "Just ludicrous."

"We're not overreaching here, we're not expanding our jurisdiction. We're trying to provide clarity," McCarthy said in a Tuesday media call previewing a trip to Missouri to discuss the proposed rule, which the agency says will clearly state which bodies of water will require permits for nearby development and certain practices under the Clean Water Act.

The proposed rule would state that the EPA has jurisdiction over water that connects to navigable waters: Think a wetland connected to a stream. But the push has ginned up Capitol Hill debate from the Right, which sees it as a massive EPA land grab -- 10 Republican senators even claimed in a letter last week that it could threaten future fireworks shows by encouraging civil lawsuits over water pollution caused by the used fireworks.......To Read More.....

My Take – So….it's "just ludicrous" to think a government agency filled with leftist central planners, and "citizens of the world", would ever think of overstepping their legislative authority by over interpreting the law? You have got to be kidding me!

 I'm still waiting for Hubert Humphrey - when promoting the Civil Rights Act - to keep his promise when he said “If this bill contains language mandating quotas, I will eat it.” Of course he's dead, and died early on after saying such a stupid thing, but while he was alive he failed to keep his promise, and quotas became a reality and one of the most divisive unconstitutional instruments that would guarantee racial animus for all these decades. Leftist will say anything to advance their agenda, and lying is the only real tool they have to do so. If they really told us what they're up to would anyone allow these people to even sit in the room let alone decide the nation's laws and how they should be interpreted? We need to get this – their goal is to destroy us with our own values.  Oh...one more thing.  Which party was actaully responsible for passage of the Civil Rights Act?  Look it up!