Forgive the petulance, but judging from the prepared text, tonight you'll find more honesty and intellectual heft in Paula Abdul's "Dance Dome" than anything in the Capitol dome.
In the run-up to the "State of the Union," the Wall Street Journal reported Monday on the language contained in directives to the EPA on how to decide what constitutes onerous regulation that tamps competitiveness and job creation. What they found were terms like "equity, human dignity, fairness" and "distributive impacts."
One official stated that her mission is in "explicitly integrating environmental justice considerations into the fabric of the EPA's process."
