The PERFECT quote to answer Repukes complaining about Durbin's comments

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The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.
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Tom Delay, 1995.

[NewJeffCT]

1. good find

do you have a link?

[geek tragedy]

5. Here's a few:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay

http://www.google.com/search?q=tom+delay+epa+gestapo&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=10&sa=N

[NewJeffCT]

thanks!

I appreciate it - already included it in a LTTE!

[NewJeffCT]

12. thanks!

I appreciate it - already included it in a LTTE!

[CottonBear]

2. Thank you very much. n/t

[Jon_da_brockman]

3. What is the context of that quote?

Where did he say it, and with reference to what? And what is the EPA?

[wakeme2008]

6. Environment Protection Agency

Govt Agency...

[geek tragedy]

7. Environmental Protection Agency.

You see, the Bug Man thought that preventing him from using dangerous, poisonous chemicals to kill bugs was like rounding up Jews and gassing them.

[tk2kewl]

4. and how the hell does the EPA directly effect any individual person

in a "claw-hook" fashion? They regulate industry, not individual people.

[Richardo]

8. Yes - and he's an exterminator by trade remember?

The reason he initially ran for Congress was because of what he tought was excessive regulation, specifically by the EPA on his bug-poisonin' bidness.

[tk2kewl]

9. Ah, yes. Of course. The EPA is preventing him from just nuking cockroaches

[Richardo]

10. "The DDT ban was not based on good science."

OK he never said that, but you could IMAGINE him saying, right?

[geek tragedy]

11. Which means they're NAZIS! eom