Three Percent
Doc Hastings wants Interior Watchdog to go after Obama. Â Or be replaced. Â And for someone new to go after Obama.
Maybe because there’s something serious that needs to be gotten to the bottom at with Obama and the Environment. Â But Probably more because of about this spot…
The environment used to be a bipartisan cause, particularly in Washington — witness the state’s million-acre 1984 wilderness bill — but Republicans have bailed here and across the country, according to the 2012 National Environmental Scorecard compiled by the League of Conservation Voters. […]
But Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., chairman of the powerful House Natural Resources Committee scores a rock-bottom rating of 3. He cast just one pro-environment vote during the 112th Congress.
Two notes that are not that noteworthy:
Almost all of the anti-environmental legislation and amendments passed by the Republican-run House of Representatives was stalled in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and would have faced President Obama’s veto pen if passed.
Curiously, many House efforts to weaken environmental statutes — e.g. the National Environmental Policy Act and Clean Air Act — were directed at laws passed under the Nixon Administration or signed into law by President George H.W. (“I want to be the environmental Presidentâ€) Bush.
Yes, Nixon. Â Yes Bush the First. Â But really, they just thought domestic politics were a bunch of outhouses out in the sticks, and had their eyes on the International Scene. Â And yes, House passes, Senate doesn’t, nothing happens after that. Â But I want to know… Â What the hell did Doc Hastings vote for to mar his nearly impeccable record? Â Was there, like, something Hanford related or was there something like a “remove maggots from government cheese” bill out there?
The one thing you can say is nothing has changed… he is consistent, with a lifetime average of 3.