Liberal Fundamentalism

The EPA has just dropped its sanctions against Range Resources in a case alleging water contamination with methane from drilling in Parker County. It is now alleged that a homeowner, a Steve Lipsky, together with his environmental consultant, had created a "deceptive video" of a methane-spewing water well for the purpose of collecting damages against the driller.

One wonders what the "environmental consultant" hoped to gain.

There is a peculiar deficit in the political debate/conversation, the belief that the opponent is motivated by no principle. This was particularly evident in the response by the Democrats to the terrible presentation of Obamacare to the Supreme Court. The Court only wanted constitutional justification for a considerable change in the relationship between the state and its citizens. The administration acted as if such a question was a huge surprise. More, the question could not be honest, could not be a question of principle but rather a political trick. Pelosi was shocked; Obama was strange.

This is the thinking of people who, in the progress from A to B, accept B as a given and the opponents, of either the end or the process, unscrupulous. This is the mindset of the religious enthusiast.