EPA administrator Lisa Jackson was interviewed for a Time magazine piece, “The Republican War on EPA Begins–But Will They Overreach?”   Earlier in the week, I ran my own piece on this topic, “EPA’s War on American Industry.”  War analogies are common in political discourse, but I would argue that my analogy is more apt than Time‘s, because EPA is actually threatening to cause economic damage on the scale of a major war.

EPA is on defense now because a strong majority in both Houses of Congress wants to strip it of the power to regulate greenhouse gases.  With possibly enough Democrats to defeat a filibuster, the Senate vote, which is likely to take place this week, will be very close.  In what history will remember as one of her more embarrassing moments, Jackson criticized the congressional effort in the interview accompanying the Time story: