Trump to order reversal of Obama water regulation rule: official

[herding cats]

Source: Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign a measure on Wednesday aimed at rescinding a major Obama administration water regulation and direct an end to the government's defense of the rule, a Trump official briefed on the plan said on Friday.

Trump is expected to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, which expands the number of waterways that are federally protected under the Clean Water Act.

The rule was finalized by the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in May 2015, and was blocked by a federal appeals court pending further court challenges.

The rule has faced intense opposition from Republicans in Congress, farmers and energy companies.

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[SummerSnow]

1. Trump hates water too.

[herding cats]

3. Trump hates clean water.

It's still necessary for fracking, so he doesn't hate all water.

[nolabels]

18. Someone said he likes the yellow kind

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. I just wanna be there when trump voters are drinking poison

[BumRushDaShow]

5. They will blame "the government" for not doing its job

completely oblivious to the fact that the man they voted for wanted to dismantle "the government" while they cheered him on.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. When their Soc Sec and Medicare is taken from them, when they cant get food stamps or

unemployment or disability or work comp, they will blame liberals because that is who Paul Ryan will tell them to blame.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Exactly. nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

14. America ended last Nov. Time now to stop the idiot from using a nuke, that is

our job now.

We have to do it before a foreign country does.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. I heard a caller on Joe Madison this morning

who talked about being in one of the elite Army engineer units from 1980 - 1986 that practiced carrying tactical nukes (backpack type) into "hostile" areas and then booking it out of there. It was apparently part of a strategy to limit destruction from an atomic bomb to smaller, more specific locales. He said he was young and foolish at the time but did it because it paid a huge bonus for those who participated.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/25-years-us-special-forces-carried-miniature-nukes-their-backs-180949700/

[Eliot Rosewater]

17. Frightening. Can you imagine that now?

here is what we know absolutely

a. Donald Trump acts and thinks like a 12 yr old who has been scolded by an adult, every minute of every day of his life

b. Donald Trump has access to nuclear bombs. 10,000 of them.

c. Donald Trump will do or say anything to take the heat off of him when caught lying, which is EVERY DAY

So, while we mourn the loss of our country, because we do because it is gone, we have a responsibility to the human race and all life on the planet. We have to find a way, all of us. to get the nukes away from him.

if that is thru exposing his treason and having him arrested, so be it If that is impeachment, thus leaving the WH to a complete and total asshole who will fast trak a total destruction of the country, so be it. But we must get the nukes away from him.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. IMHO

I doubt that our military would carry out such an order. They may be brainwashed to carry out any order no matter what but I believe there are other checks and balances associated with the nukes in general (unless someone else does a first strike on us).

Although sometimes those handling them might be questionable - http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/loose.nukes/index.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

20. I fear they will manufacture an issue that doesnt exist in reality for an excuse

They are not going to let go of power, not this bunch.

Now the GOP only care about decimating our benefits, stealing them and pocketing them, so they may impeach knowing they have another criminal in the wings waiting to steal our money.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Remember to also follow the $$$

Use of a nuke will negatively impact those who crave and hoard $$$... For example places that they have designated as "terrorist hotspots" generally have oil to be exploited. The bigger concern is randomly starting wars like Raygun did in the '80s with Granada and Panama except in this case, re-engaging in Iraq, ramping back up in Afghanistan, and going into Syria and/or Iran full scale in order to feed the MIC again.

In any case, they will steal our money with our without nukes. You can bet on that!

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Water Filter Companies must be Republican

[Liberalagogo]

6. Make him drink Flint water

and only Flint water.

[Matthew28]

7. Look at history of say 1950's America and China today

That is what no water regs look. People will die by just drinking water.

[yallerdawg]

8. He's taking credit (again) for something he didn't do.

The Republicans were never going to pass enabling legislation, Obama was often just chipping around the edges where there was some enforcement variables - often a legal stretch, as Obama described it - and many of these so-called orders and memos have no impact, since often nothing had been implemented!

He is just a self-absorbed blowhard deceiving the gullible - again.

[MBS]

9. This makes me so angry.

And, again, it's so puzzling: don't Republicans want clean water that's safe to drink??

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. I just love drinking dirty water.

[DeminPennswoods]

12. At one of the townhalls

an attendee offered their GOP rep a glass of polluted water, which, of course, he refused to drink.

[jeffreyi]

16. Gotta say it

Twitler only likes yellow water

[BumRushDaShow]

21. They want us to switch to Brawndo

Because it has electrolytes.

[GeorgeGist]

23. Trump to order reversal of Obama water protection rule: official

Fixed it.