WORSE_THAN_NOTHING: stupid Democrats COWER in face of NO Chem. plant security improvements...!
We don't care if Rush Limbaugh, Ann Couter, Bill O'Reilly, Karl Rove, the Bush White House, and the rest of the baying right-wing fear-merchants and smear-mongers cast the New York Times as an organization with a "liberal" bias: HOW COULD ANY paper write an editorial such as this, without there being SOME fire behind the smoke??
HOW can the Right-Wing smear-monger HYPE FEAR, while doing NOTHING.... "WORSE_THAN_NOTHING".... to prevent a mass-murder terror attack on one of America's VULNERABLE, huge, chemical plants??
HOW can Democrats ALLOW America to spend $380 BILLION on the Iraq war portion of America's "war on terror" ALONE, while we as a nation LEAVE OUR CHEMICAL PLANTS VULNERABLE to another 9-11 type terror attack?
HOW can Democrats ALLOW the Bush White House and Right-Wing media babble to CLAIM LEADERSHIP in the "war on terror", WHILE LEAVING SUCH CRITICAL and HAZARDOUS facilities UNPROTECTED?
Hell, you almost must ask yourself... "Are Democrats BEING PAID OFF to help the Bush admin. SUBVERT strengthening security and resistance of these hazardous chemical plants (assured some token measure of power in a future "national emergency state"), or are they merely selling American security down the river OUT OF cowering IGNORANCE?
Worse Than Nothing
Published: June 14, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/opinion/14wed2.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
The fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is drawing near, and Congress still has not passed a law to improve chemical plant safety. The Senate is scheduled to hold important negotiations today on a chemical plant bill, but the bill could actually make the country less safe. If senators are afraid to stand up to the chemical industry and pass a good bill, they should at least have the courage to do nothing.
A terrorist attack on a single chemical plant in a densely populated area could kill tens — or even hundreds — of thousands of Americans. Senators Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, and Joseph Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, have drawn up a security bill that, in its current form, is barely better than nothing. It needs tough language added requiring chemical plants to replace dangerous chemicals with safer alternatives. The chemical industry is resisting.
An even bigger disgrace is that the industry is pushing hard to get "pre-emption" language added to the bill. That would prevent states from imposing their own tougher rules. New Jersey has begun to do so, and now that Jon Corzine, a strong proponent of chemical plant safety, is governor, it could adopt even stricter rules. A pre-emption provision could wipe away New Jersey's laws, and prevent other states from protecting themselves.
George Voinovich, Republican of Ohio, is taking the lead on pushing pre-emption. It is important that Lincoln Chafee, Republican of Rhode Island, and Mark Pryor, Democrat of Arkansas, who could be the swing votes, resist along with Senator Collins, the committee chairwoman. If the final bill pre-empts state laws, it should be killed or at least be renamed, to make clear what it is: a chemical plant antisecurity bill.
HOW can the Right-Wing smear-monger HYPE FEAR, while doing NOTHING.... "WORSE_THAN_NOTHING".... to prevent a mass-murder terror attack on one of America's VULNERABLE, huge, chemical plants??
HOW can Democrats ALLOW America to spend $380 BILLION on the Iraq war portion of America's "war on terror" ALONE, while we as a nation LEAVE OUR CHEMICAL PLANTS VULNERABLE to another 9-11 type terror attack?
HOW can Democrats ALLOW the Bush White House and Right-Wing media babble to CLAIM LEADERSHIP in the "war on terror", WHILE LEAVING SUCH CRITICAL and HAZARDOUS facilities UNPROTECTED?
Hell, you almost must ask yourself... "Are Democrats BEING PAID OFF to help the Bush admin. SUBVERT strengthening security and resistance of these hazardous chemical plants (assured some token measure of power in a future "national emergency state"), or are they merely selling American security down the river OUT OF cowering IGNORANCE?
Worse Than Nothing
Published: June 14, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/opinion/14wed2.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
The fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is drawing near, and Congress still has not passed a law to improve chemical plant safety. The Senate is scheduled to hold important negotiations today on a chemical plant bill, but the bill could actually make the country less safe. If senators are afraid to stand up to the chemical industry and pass a good bill, they should at least have the courage to do nothing.
A terrorist attack on a single chemical plant in a densely populated area could kill tens — or even hundreds — of thousands of Americans. Senators Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, and Joseph Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, have drawn up a security bill that, in its current form, is barely better than nothing. It needs tough language added requiring chemical plants to replace dangerous chemicals with safer alternatives. The chemical industry is resisting.
An even bigger disgrace is that the industry is pushing hard to get "pre-emption" language added to the bill. That would prevent states from imposing their own tougher rules. New Jersey has begun to do so, and now that Jon Corzine, a strong proponent of chemical plant safety, is governor, it could adopt even stricter rules. A pre-emption provision could wipe away New Jersey's laws, and prevent other states from protecting themselves.
George Voinovich, Republican of Ohio, is taking the lead on pushing pre-emption. It is important that Lincoln Chafee, Republican of Rhode Island, and Mark Pryor, Democrat of Arkansas, who could be the swing votes, resist along with Senator Collins, the committee chairwoman. If the final bill pre-empts state laws, it should be killed or at least be renamed, to make clear what it is: a chemical plant antisecurity bill.
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