Administration Warns of 'Command-and-Control' Regulation Over Emissions (CO2)

FoxNews.com ^ | 12/9/09

[your local physicist]

The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn't move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a "command-and-control" role over the process in a way that could hurt business.

The warning, from a top White House economic official who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity, came on the eve of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's address to the international conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jackson, however, tried to strike a tone of cooperation in her address Wednesday, explaining that the EPA's new powers to regulate greenhouse gases will be used to complement legislation pending in Congress, not replace it.

[mojitojoe]

Watch this, it explains it all

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov

[mojitojoe]

What will we do? Have more tea parties and pay more taxes to fund it? Be good little girls and boys?

[MrB]

Secede

[Deo volente]

Listening to the Dennis Miller Show yesterday on talk radio...he said it feels as if a coup d’etat is taking place right under our noses.

The lame-stream media is complicit in this treason, imo.

[DarkWaters]

Feels? Hmm, I would say that the Coup d’etat has already taken place, we are just seeing the after effects. Its like when Hugo Chavez won the election in ‘97 or ‘98 (don't remember which year) and then proceeded to rewrite the constitution illegally and telling their congress to take a hike during the process. Obama is just forgoing any of the formalities. He is the reincarnation of V.I. Lenin.

[your local physicist]

You can follow a link on the linked page to the original article published in a Hungarian journal. It is written in English. I have that journal article scheduled to read during Christmas vacation.

[Gargantua]

Just checked out your profile page. You're one scarey dude...

...I'm just glad we're on the same side. Too much time, indeed!

;-/

[catnipman]

Obama is correct! Congress must immediately take legislative action to correct this situation with the EPA. They need to pass a one sentence bill that removes EPA jurisdiction over the regulation of atmospheric CO2. Problem solved.

Each and every one of us should ask our elected representatives whether they support this approach. We should ask every candidate for election or re-election to Congress this November whether they would be willing to co-sponsor such a bill.

[Tench_Coxe]

One simple reply: You have to leave Washington sometime. So, you pick: stay in Washington and starve, or leave and expect quick dispatch. Your choice.

I can't be the only one thinking that something is reaching the boiling point, and but fast.

[Candor7]

Mark Levin pointed out on his radio show this eveninig that this incident of executive “warning” to the legisative branch is a decisive point of the evolutionary scale from soft tyranny to a harsh tyranny from the left.

If Obama keeps pushing like his , it is coupe like, banana republic style politics that will destroy him and the EPA.

As Levin said,” WHO do they think they are?” They threaten the people at their peril. “We will get rid of you. You're DONE!” Levin went on to say.

[PhiloBedo]

Oh ya!

......you have underestimated the American people, you petulant, snot-faced, dirt-lipped ACORN reject.

I may just send that line to WH next time I’m writting them a note.

[CottShop]

[[Administration Warns of ‘Command-and-Control’ Regulation Over Emissions (CO2)]]

So lemme get this straight- Our Government and the UN and Fat Al Gore tried to ILLEGALLY defraud us using BOGUS science, and NOONE did a frigging hting about it, but the emails came out, and now it ‘looks kinda bad for hte government legally’ so now they’re goign to resort to blackmail where the president basically says, that if you don’t give me everythign I want, I am goign to sick the EPA on you busiensses and shut you down?

America- You hired a THUG for a president- Wake the heck up!!!

[Lorianne]

http://market-ticker.org/archives/1717-Ill-Hold-You-Down-And.....html

[Lorianne]

How dare the EPA threaten the people’s Congress !

[ResearchMonkey]

This will not end well.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The EPA is part of the Executive Branch and they are threatening Congress? Heck, it’s about time to bring the Supremes into the climate discussion.

Unfortunately, in one of their mindless decisions (Thanks Anthony Kennedy), in 2007 the SCOTUS already ruled that the EPA must regulate CO2.

"Administration Warns of 'Command-and-Control' Regulation Over Emissions (CO2)"

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Are you referring to the Massachusetts vs EPA case? I thought that 5-4 decision had to do with automobile emissions, not specifically CO2.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Are you referring to the Massachusetts vs EPA case? I thought that 5-4 decision had to do with automobile emissions, not specifically CO2.

Yes, that's the case. I am not a lawyer, but the ruling specifically mentions CO2:

Based on respected scientific opinion that a well-documented rise inglobal temperatures and attendant climatological and environmental changes have resulted from a significant increase in the atmospheric concentration of “greenhouse gases,” a group of private organizations petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin regu-lating the emissions of four such gases, including carbon dioxide, un-der §202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act, which requires that the EPA“shall by regulation prescribe . . . standards applicable to the emis-sion of any air pollutant from any class . . . of new motor vehicles . . . which in [the EPA Administrator’s] judgment cause[s], or contrib-ute[s] to, air pollution . . . reasonably . . . anticipated to endangerpublic health or welfare,” 42 U. S. C. §7521(a)(1).

So it seems to be about both auto emissions and CO2.

Unfortuantely, the GWB EPA conceded that the govt. should do something about "global climate change."

"The Court attaches considerable significance to EPA’s espoused belief that global climate change must be addressed.."

[Gargantua]

In your FR Profile you mention that, "I've been a lurker at FR since about '95."

Which I find surprising, since I believe FreeRepublic was created around 1997-98. Someome here correct me if I'm wrong.

For if I'm not, you are claiming to have lurked here for 2-3 years before there was a "here" here. That's the kind of mistake a Democrat Troll might make. Of course, if I'm wrong about FR's start date, then, as Hill-Billery would say, "there's just no 'there' there."

As to your other weird comment, there is no need to forward my anti-Obonehead posts to the White House. I'm sure they have a dull, inbred team following all the posts here daily; likely headed up by Van Jonesing and Anita Dunce.

ROFLMFWAO!!!

;-/

[PhiloBedo]

I remember finding out about FR about the time I finished building my home, which ‘95. Drudge had a link. That is my only frame of reference, but I did talk to JimRob once and he didn’t correct me.

You are obviously reading my comment the wrong way. Wat I was trying to say was I would like to use your very creative description of Barry Soetero to his face.... I didn’t mean I would attribute the term.

Your whole rant is priceless and very true.

I would like nothing more than to see whoever runs as a conservative in 2010 and beyond, holding up documentation the, in-your-face- communization of our country.

I, like you, am sure “dead fish” has a group watching us. Good.....then they know there is a portion of the population that won’t roll over.

All better now?