Charles P. Pierce:
Let The Waters Of Freedom Flow

Earlier today, I made note of the attempts in the House of Representatives to gut the 30-year old environmental laws that provided for, among other things, the Superfund dedicated to cleaning up the worst physical damage done to the country by its corporate class. I mentioned that the notion that the companies would police themselves, or that state governments were up to the task, both of which assumptions are vital to the theory behind the House bill in question, were just about the funniest ideas to come out of Washington since old Wilbur Mills wound up backstage at the Pilgrim Theater down in Boston’s Combat Zone.
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“Freedom Industries. That’s what makes it art, and what gives us all further proof that we’re all living in Dickensland at the moment.”