Re:Still don't get it? (Score 0)

I wasn't praising Bush -- I was pointing out that Clinton and Bush both suck. And I didn't say that reducing Mercury levels is impractical; I said that most (not all) last-minute bills are impractical, and are passed in the knowledge that will be scrapped by the next government. Clinton's mercury bill was only proposed to make himself and the Democratic party look like champions of the environment without having to actually help the environment.

I'm not American either. My local government spent four years scrapping social programs and reducing taxes for the rich. Now that an election is only a few months away, they're suddenly putting lots of money back into social programs (creating an enormous deficit in the process). The government that replaces them will have to take that money back out of the social programs to balance the budget, which will automatically vilify them in most people's eyes. You see how this works?