The War On The People.

If you still have doubts about the Republican controlled House of Representatives favoring big business over the welfare of the people (in this case the citizens of the United States), consider the following two articles from yesterday's  paper.

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON —

House Republicans said Wednesday that a new government agency designed to protect consumers from problems with mortgages, credit cards and other lenders has too much power. They also criticized it for participating in a federal-state effort to force mortgage servicers to change the way they foreclose on troubled homeowners.

The bureau is chiefly designed to give consumers simplified information about financial products and protect them from unfair practices. Priorities Warren (Editors note: The chief of the new bureau) considers important include regulating mortgages, credit cards and non-bank financial companies like mortgage brokers, payday lenders and private providers of student loans.

GOP lawmakers also challenged the bureau's role in a push by federal agencies and the 50 state attorneys general to force five large U.S. banks to agree to make it easier for struggling homeowners to avoid foreclosure and rework their mortgages.

And then there is this:

By Kathleen Hennessey

Tribune Washington bureau

WASHINGTON — A House committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases, boosting a top Republican priority and aiming a blow at the Obama administration and states that favor tougher environmental regulations.

The bill was approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a largely party-line vote. Republicans argued that action by the EPA, coming after Congress failed to pass a climate and global-warming bill, would impose burdensome and unnecessary rules on industry.

Democrats cast the measure, called the "Energy Tax Prevention Act," as a skirmish in an ongoing GOP war on the science of global warming. The bill is unlikely to win significant support in the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority.

The Republicans would like to weaken the environmental protections we enjoy, while at the same time allowing credit card companies, banks, payday lenders and the like continue to gouge the public with unjust and sometimes illegal practices.

I particularly liked the phrase where the Republicans say "would impose burdensome and unnecessary rules on industry."  Would one of those rules be about not killing some of us with their toxic waste?

Some days, I don't have to write this blog, as the Republicans all but write it for me.

More later............................