Advise and Obstruct

Votes to confirm Gina McCarthy as head of the Environmental Protection Agency are being blocked by Republicans.

Why? They say it's because McCarthy has been "unresponsive" to questions submitted by Republican Senators:

        "In a statement, the Republicans explained the reason for their absence. “The new nominee to 

         be EPA Administrator has been extremely unresponsive with the information we requested,” 

         said Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)."

The truth, however, is that McCarthy reportedly received more than 1,100 questions - unprecedented for any presidential nominee. Six hundred of those questions came from Senator David Vitter (R-La), and McCarthy answered every one of them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/senators-boycott-blocks-action-to-confirm-epa-head/2013/05/09/c1c5062a-b8dd-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html

But, you know, McCarthy has been "unresponsive" with information requested by Republicans. So yet another nominee by President Obama gets blocked.

So what's the real reason for GOP obstructionism, besides Congressional Republicans acting like petulant children? It's simple: Republicans hate the EPA. Thus, nobody gets to head the EPA, ensuring that the dreaded agency becomes a poorly-run shadow of its former self. Then Republicans can turn around and point to the EPA as "proof" that the government "is the problem" and should be shrunk to the size that it can be "drowned in a bathtub".

Sound like responsible governance to you?