Obama yields on smog rule in face of GOP demands

[democracy1st]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dramatic reversal, President Barack Obama on Friday scrubbed a clean-air regulation that aimed to reduce health-threatening smog, yielding to bitterly protesting businesses and congressional Republicans who complained the rule would kill jobs in America's ailing economy.

Withdrawal of the proposed regulation marked the latest in a string of retreats by the president in the face of GOP opposition, and it drew quick criticism from liberals. Environmentalists, a key Obama constituency, accused him of caving to corporate polluters, and the American Lung Association threatened to restart the legal action it had begun against rules proposed by President George W. Bush.

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-yields-smog-rule-face-gop-demands-211108647.html

[villager]

1. The "yields" is redundant when using "GOP demands"

n/t

[ixion]

2. Obama: The GOP's best buddy

[Bluebear]

3. Just stop after "Obama yields."

[DJ13]

4. Obama yields in face of GOP demands

That title is recyclable.

[sethgrogen]

5. this is so freaking depressing!

[rurallib]

6. a warm up for the pipeline approval

I am about as depressed as I have been in a decade

[bahrbearian]

7. I can't see why he would even run for Prez he should just yeild, the GOP demands it.

[Dragonfli]

8. According to some here, it is his marketing of it that sucks but the product is awesome

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1865839

If you all agree it is just bad PR but good policy then leave this post alone (or say good things about it there) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1865839

I do not agree and so I couldn't.