And today the GOP spews out more evidence of how the clutching hands of ideology have it by the neck … take it away, Steve Benen:
We’re well past the strange op-ed stage; McConnell yesterday “sent a detailed letter to every governor in the United States laying out a carefully researched legal argument as to why states should not comply with Mr. Obama’s regulations.”
The letter even cites Laurence Tribe, a constitutional scholar at Harvard Law School, who believes the Obama administration’s regulations probably exceed the EPA’s legal authority.
But that doesn’t mean Tribe is on board with McConnell’s campaign. On the contrary, the law professor told The New Republic last month that states “can’t count on my being right.”
Now, I prefer to take the entirely irresponsible position that Congress exists purely for my entertainment; I wish I was enough of an American historian to be able to recount similar incidents throughout our history, because I’m sure they exist and it might be helpful to realize that this (along with the hysterical Senatorial letter to Iran) is not unique, merely unusual and rather reprehensible. Maybe someone knows of some? It’d be lovely if you could share with us.
