July 27, 2001

8:51 PM

House votes to restore water arsenic standards.Gee, I don't know. Whose opinion might be more valid, the Republicans or the National Academy of Science? Not that the NAS is suddenly perfect but the recent attempts to put major spin on science, especially in global warming, is an unsettling trend.
posted by skallas (5 comments total)

Would point out here that not all Republicans supported Bush's plan to raise the level of arsenic allowable in drinking water. It was 19 moderate Republicans who defied the chief executive -- siding with their Democratic colleagues as well as science and good ol' common sense -- to restore the tougher standards. Still, 189 congressmen did drink the Kool-Aid (Bush administration Kool-Aid is not, I guess, made with tap water).
posted by barkingmoose at 9:04 PM on July 27, 2001

Bush is making it way too easy for moderate Republican senators to score points with their electorates... he is sooo a one-term-wonder...
posted by Ptrin at 9:33 PM on July 27, 2001

Of course, that's what they said about Clinton in early 1995... and George Bush Sr. was supposed to get re-elected after the Gulf War... and the 1998 Congressional elections were supposed to end the impeachment drive... and the House's vote to impeach the president was supposed to bite the House Republicans in the ass in 2000.

All by way of saying, be careful... things can change.
posted by Tin Man at 9:47 PM on July 27, 2001

btw, here's the actual NAS report in question.
posted by s.e.b. at 8:15 AM on July 28, 2001

Would point out here that not all Republicans supported Bush's plan to raise the level of arsenic allowable in drinking water.

That would be the same level that was perfectly acceptable for the entire period of the Clinton administration, save the last few hours, by the way.
posted by ljromanoff at 3:21 PM on July 29, 2001