Mitch McConnell supports his disgustingness

Sen. Mitch McConnell, a name that I can hardly say without following it by a gag reflex, is planning to hamstring the EPA's legally-mandated role to protect our environment by not giving them enough money to do that.

Gag me. Ugh.

Here's what the Hill wrote about that:

McConnell won't back down in EPA spending fight

"McConnell earlier this year placed himself on the appropriations subcommittee with authority over the EPA, in an effort to exercise more power over the agency.

“As a member of this subcommittee, I was able to secure a number of policy provisions in this EPA funding bill that passed out of committee, provisions that seek to scale back the overreach of the EPA,” he said."

He calls it "overreach".  I and many others concerned about the environment and its healthy functioning call it "doing the job it was created for".

But wait... as always, there's more.

"Specifically, the Senate bill blocks funding to enforce carbon dioxide limits for power plants in states that do not consent. It also blocks funding to enforce the EPA’s “waters of the United States” rule on the federal government’s Clean Water Act jurisdiction and funds that would make final a proposed rule to reduce ozone pollution that contributes to smog."

So let's see. McConnell is opposed to:

A.  Attempts to begin to address the human impact on the climate (we just had the second-warmest June ever, and extreme rains are being clearly linked to higher temperatures);

B.  Insuring that our natural fresh water supply continues to be clean (and also the envy of many Third World nations that hardly have a drop of clean, fresh, PROTECTED water);

C. Simply put, he's opposed to keeping the air we breathe clean.

UGHly.  And frickin' unbelievable.