Behold: The Most Absurd Scapegoat Yet for the Flint Water Crisis

This is some next-level wingnuttery.​

So the president was in Detroit today, just a hop, skip, and a rivulet from Flint, where the water is still too poisonous for human consumption. Meanwhile, back in Washington, showing the impeccable timing that has become its hallmark, the Congress sent a bill to his desk that would have gutted federal clean water regulations. The president vetoed it from here to there, giving the miseries to, among other people, my new friend, Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa.

"Too many of our waters have been left vulnerable," Obama said in a veto message to Congress. "Pollution from upstream sources ends up in the rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and coastal waters near which most Americans live and on which they depend for their drinking water, recreation, and economic development." Congressional Republicans tried to use a rarely invoked law known as the Congressional Review Act to overturn the regulation. But they're far short of the two-thirds vote necessary in each chamber to overturn the veto. It passed 53 to 44 in the Senate and 253 to 166 in the House. The sponsor of the resolution, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said she would continue to look for ways to undermine the rule. "We all want clean water," Ernst said in a statement. "This rule is not about clean water. Rather, it is about how much authority the federal government and unelected bureaucrats should have to regulate what is done on private land."
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