EPA, Texas go to war over carbon-emission rules (What can a state do if it loses in court?)

Hotair ^ | 12/26/2010 | Ed Morrisey

[Arrowhead1952]

I,m ready to let all my tax dollars go to the folks of Texas and tell DC to take a flying leap at a rolling donut and hope they hit it.

[ecomcon]

Secession.

[Westbrook]

> If they are co-equal, then two of the three ought to be
> able to over-rule the third.

Unfortunately, two of the three are predominantly statist.

The Executive and Judiciary are overwhelmingly statist.

The Congress, not much less so.

And they have the military with all its snoop prowess.

We are screwed.

[Westbrook]

> There are several big pipelines that run from those
> refineries up to the East Coast. You just turn off the
> flow. We find out REAL quick who needs who more.

I love it.

We live in the Northeast, but ...

We heat with wood, including our water.

We also have a wood cookstove.

We can generate our own electricity and pump our own water by hand.

I’m a telecommuter, so I don’t need to drive much.

We have months of provisions in store.

STARVE THE BEAST!

[Jim W N]

Right. As a last resort, secession from the Union would cause a cessation of federal government abuses in Texas. Something like that.

[reaganator]

but, but what about the polar bears!?

I saw pictures of polar bears on floating ice!

[SeekAndFind]

Polar bears not ‘endangered’

see here : http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46733.html

[EyeGuy]

“I wish ALL the STATES would stand up to Washington in this way...”

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Should happen.

Won’t happen.

Yeah, not even in Texas.

[reaganator]

Oh no! You are wrong.

My children told me that they learned that man made climate change is endangering polar bears.

They were told this was true by our local government union school teachers who are getting paid $60,000 for 10 months work to propagandize this lie.

Excuse me, I need to pollute, time to exhale.

[paladinan]

Oh don’t worry. There will be a few more than just OK, AZ and MO to come along. The map of the US might look similar to the one in 1861.

Can Wisconsin join, if we promise to leave Madison and Milwaukee behind?

[mek1959]

Key line in your comment - “if he has the guts”

[rurgan]

The EPA is going to shut down coal power plants and the economy and justifies it using the global warming hoax as an excuse when the Earth is cooling not warming.

The EPA, FCC,FEC, FDA, dept of Energy, dept of education, need to be abolished for starters.

This is a dictatorship/socialism and is against freedom. Amazing that many idiots even on this forum defend this socialist gang of criminals running these government agencies called the FCC, EPA etc.

[publana]

Bttt

[Free Vulcan]

Dude, you have Austin. Nuff said.

[FlyingEagle]

The US is no longer governed as a constitutional republic. It is functioning as a socialist police state run by fiat from corrupt elites.

Texas should just ignore the EPA and ban them from regulating the state. States can and should separate themselves from illegal federal action.

[cranked]

Wonder if passing nullification act(s) would suffice....

[April Lexington]

There are several big pipelines that run from those refineries up to the East Coast. You just turn off the flow. We find out REAL quick who needs who more.

Great idea! This strategy worked for OPEC, Mexico and Chavez. Freeze them!

[April Lexington]

A legitimate threat of succession could become the crisis necessary to reform the Federal government. “Either we go back to the original ideals or we are leaving.”

[April Lexington]

The question becomes: “Are we still a nation of states with a federal government to administer the few necessary collective tasks or have we become a nation of unitary government with 50 (or, 57 in the mind of O buttboy) administrative districts designed to do the federal elite's bidding? If so, think of the money the states could save on make believe government by dumping the current structure and adopting the Russian model of the president appointing managers over the new administrative districts... Either the states mean something or they don't. Let's start the battle to find out...

[B4Ranch]

You can almost count on one hand the number of sheriffs, don’t include deputies, that have been prosecuted for anything in the last 50 years. The only one that vaguely comes to mind was in Virginia a couple of years ago.

>>Most sheriff’s get to much funding from the fedgov to bite the hand that feeds them.<<

That money is usually for holding illegal aliens in the county jails. Since the FEDS are slow in paying I wouldn’t be surprised that more than one would prefer to tell the FEDS to find another jail for the scum.