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Romney flip-flops, does not support California CO2 waiver 3

Remember how Mitt Romney joined with the other GOP presidential candidates in appearing to support California in its quest to gain a waiver from the U.S. EPA to allow it to regulate vehicle CO2 emissions? How Romney said, and we quote, "I side with states being able to make their own decisions, even if I don't always agree with the decisions they make"? Well, the Mittster, a fervent Big Auto supporter, has flip-flopped clarified his position: he favors state regulations for some pollutants, but that list does not include carbon dioxide. "It makes more sense to have one set of federal rules to address CO2 emissions from vehicles rather than a patchwork of different state regulations," he said in a statement. Well, at least his inconsistency is consistent.

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  1. rraimo Posted 2:57 am
    05 Feb 2008

    Strange...You would think he would have waited until after the California primary to make that statement.

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  2. inkabinkaboo182 Posted 8:42 am
    05 Feb 2008

    On the subject of presidential politics...Why has Mike Gravel been removed from your candidate interviews/ fact sheets on the front page?  He's still running!

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  3. Wolverine Posted 12:25 pm
    05 Feb 2008

    States' Rights Is A Sophistic ArgumentPeople only support states' rights when that argument suits them.  This started with the slave-holding southeastern states, using states' rights as an excuse to allow slavery.  Notice that judges and justices who claim to support states' rights (usually grounded on a supposed strict constructionist view of the Constitution) only do so if they like what the states are trying to do.  When they don't like it, they become supporters of federal action.

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