"Quit comparing me to Obama."
Posted on 06/03/2014 2:28:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
t to be overlooked amid the gale of reaction to the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emission proposal is the EPA’s gall, its effrontery, its smug tone of We’re-the-government-and-don’t-you-forget-it. Putin could take lessons from this gang.
The signal point, to be sure, is the thumbprint of Barack Obama on the EPA’s plan to reduce — in theory — the economy’s carbon footprint. EPA wants by 2030 a 30 percent cut in emissions compared with 2005. A plan to tackle the perceived problem failed in 2010 in a Senate heavily controlled by Democrats. OK, says Obama, his term as president winding down, I’ll do it myself, through executive authority. Listen up — I’m talking! The EPA, which he controls, sure did listen.
Upon the nation descends a set of proposals the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says would, if implemented, suppress average annual Gross Domestic Product by $51 billion, lowering employment growth by an annual average of 224,000 jobs through 2030. Just what America lusts for right now — a big jump in living costs, to be spread among workers fortunate enough to have jobs.
You’re wondering: Game over? Not by any means. The EPA proposal, however the media may depict it, is just that — a draft rule put forth for a year’s worth of public comment, and after that a raft of lawsuits. The latter will challenge not so much the EPA’s common sense as the President’s right to use executive authority as if he were, well, Vladimir Putin, informing the great unwashed how a disputed goal is to be attained.
The right to rule by decree — do this because I say so — is familiar...
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Vladimir just called and wants an apology. LOL
Wasn’t it just a few months ago we learned the EPA was giving people lethal doses of something or other so they could increase regulations?
As much as this is going to hurt it is probably good for conservatives. The coal producing states are not likely to vote Democrat...probably for years to come.
Obama is a subverter of republicanism, which is a very different kettle of fish.
William Murchison, good old Corsicana, Texas native.
If you like your power bill, you can keep your power bill.
*PING* for excellent article! THANKS for finding/posting!
The wonder is that our institutions and society were strong enough to delay an open despot for almost a hundred years after the 17th Amendment.
Vlad is far less my enemy.
Time for states to just say no.
I wish pundits and talking heads would get that. I am sick of hearing about our “democracy”.
"Quit comparing me to Obama."
Vladimir has already stated that because Russia is a country governed by laws, he could not get away with the kind of stuff Obama does.
Excellent observation. Obama’s actions subvert the Constitutional Republic, not some “democracy.”
Even more than that. Obama IS democracy.
Actually, it’s more reminiscent of Josef Stalin. The “climate change” folks are Trofim Lysenko and his cronies, and Comrade Obama, like Stalin, is using “science” to impose his political desires.
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