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Originally Posted by spence

The EPA has regulated dust for some time, in fact President Bush took a lot of flack for tightening some dust standards which impacted farming.

Federal court upholds EPA's rural dust rule - NYTimes.com

Were you outraged then as well?

-spence

Well, you did say that Bush "took a lot of flack."

BTW, this often using Bush's doing something that agrees with "liberals" or environmentalists, or some group or idea that is not, presumably, "conservative," . . . is that supposed to be some kind of validation for those things? Is it somehow supposed to make those who are of a "conservative" bent go . . . OH . . . OK then . . . if Bush did it, it's OK?

Not everything that Bush did makes so-called conservatives happy. Though he may have been preferable to them than someone further to the left of what you call the spectrum, he is still one in the long line of POTUS's that has expanded Federal executive power away from the limited scope that was originally intended. If anything, Bush is evidence to support the idea that the Federal Government is constantly growing at the expense of local government. He may have appointed a couple of SCOTUS Judges that my help to stay or slow that direction. A couple more will be needed. That remains to be seen.