In 1970, Republican President...

...Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency by executive order. Today's Republican candidates for president want to abolish it.

Michele Bachmann, for example, calls the E.P.A., "the job-killing organization of America." And, “I guarantee you the E.P.A. will have doors locked and lights turned off, and they will only be about conservation. It will be a new day and a new sheriff in Washington, D.C.”

This is not your father's Republican Party.