Obama scraps tighter smog rules

[Mr Khan]

MrBubbles said:

Mr Khan said:
Idiocy. Pandering to big polluters for something that is pretty unequivocally bad, even from the blind nuts that refuse to accept global warming: this wasn't about greenhouse gas, it was about smog.

Anyone who thinks this is a good move, go to Beijing right now and try to breathe, then come back and tell me this is a good idea. You absolutely cannot be in favor of this unless you have breathed the air in Beijing

If it wouldn't be politically disastrous, i'd stump for a candidate to the left of Obama, as this pandering for no good reason to right-wingers who are just going to take advantage of it and demand more has got to stop. These people need to be shut out from the national dialogue in every possible way, not conceded to

you are a bigot... just thought youd like to know, in case you werent aware. 

Bad ideas need to be discouraged. While everyone is entitled to voice their opinion, that does not mean that efforts shouldn't be taken to silence a great many of these opinions, though that is up again to the people and not the government, unless these opinions fly in the face of established fact, then the government can work to crush myth (like "there is no anthropogenic global warming," or "hydraulic fracturing has no negative impact on drinking water.")

People who oppose these standards are helping to endanger others, and dangerous ideas must have their influence minimized