TPMtv: Stonewall Johnson
Comments
About This Video
Stonewall Johnson
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Stonewall Johnson was born on January 21, 1824 in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He went on to become one of the most revered Confederate generals of the American Civil War. Wait, that's Stonewall Jackson. Stonewall Johnson was born on March 21, 1951 in Washington D. C. and went on to become one of the most controversial and obstinate Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose testimony before Congress has given him the inside track for this year's Golden Duke Award for Outstanding Achievement in Corruption-based Chutzpah.
Tags : video, politics, blog, congress, hearing, EPA, stephen, johnson, environmental, protection, agency, stonewalling
Subscribe
Get the latest episodes delivered free every week
At the end - who is that congressman trying to give cover to Johnson that the chairman threatens to have removed??
It was the lovely Darrell Issa (R - Blackwater).
He and Waxman have a lot of bad blood going wayback.
It wasn't too surprising to see him jump to this bozo's defense. Incompetents have to stick together!
Johnson is obviously another Brownie, doing a heckuva job.
Great music. It's so frustrating to watch modern politicians get roasted and feel no accountability.
Steven Johnson was my division director years ago at the US EPA. We all felt that he was, at that time, beyond his level of competence, the Peter Principle, or whatever applies. He got boosted up into the SES-Senior Executive Service by being a good brown-noser, being affable, and pleasing to upper management. His big accomplishment at Office of pesticide Programs was successfully implementing a used pesticides container disposal rule for agricultural users. But he was not known for a true commitment to farm worker or consumer safety or pesticide safety in general. He did the industry's bidding, for the most part.
And that is his legacy as EPA administrator, doing the coal, oil and auto industry's bidding (along with the chemical industry) A sad tenure. But it could have been worse--Bush could have appointed an administrator from Monsanto, Dow or Dupont.