In Obama Power Grab, Climate Trumps Constitution

Investor's Business Daily ^ | September 1, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

This lawless administration plans to bypass the two-thirds requirement for Senate ratification on a climate change treaty by entering into a "politically binding" hybrid agreement to "name and shame" climate scofflaws.

Apparently letting the Environmental Protection Agency run amok with regulations fulfilling candidate Obama's pledge to bankrupt the coal industry, and enact a de facto cap-and-trade regime the president couldn't get through Congress, is not enough.

The man who said his nomination was the moment the seas began to recede and the planet began to heal now plans to deal the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution yet another blow.

He's doing it by agreeing to a Kyoto-like "accord" he can use as moral cover for further destroying the U.S. economy, in lieu of an actual climate change "treaty" that must be ratified by two-thirds of a Senate that has already unanimously rejected such a pact.

The accord, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in Paris in 2015, is designed to bypass both Congress and the Constitution through the manipulation of language.

"Accords" do not have to be ratified, but they commit the nations involved to action, in this case meeting artificial and meaningless emission targets.

[nascarnation]

It’s all about CONTROL.
Climate change just happens to be a feel good monicker for it.

[Jim Robinson]

Impeach the corrupt bastard!

[raptor22]

Indeed. I prefer incareceration and this time make it a green jumpsuit.

[Argus]

Obama’s a Constitutional scholar the way Heinrich Himmler was an expert on Judaism.

[TigersEye]

The climate changed...

Myth of arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago...despite Al Gore's prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now

[LucianOfSamasota]

Climate Trumps Constitution

Or fairness;

Or income inequality;

Or the right to healthcare;

Or racism;

Or the right to home ownership;

Or the rights of illegal aliens;

Or the rights of Islamic jihadists;

Or LGBT sensitivities;

Or the voting rights of the unidentified;

Or whether Michelle is having a bad hair day, for that matter.

[aquila48]

“It’s all about CONTROL.”

Exactly! But what is exasperating is that even the great editorial writers of IBD fall for the leftists subliminal messages when they use the left’s terminology, as in their headline...

“In Obama Power Grab, Climate Trumps Constitution”

By using the leftists short-hand term “Climate” they are accepting the premise that climate is a man made, critical issue that needs to be addressed yesterday, and that it is so important an issue that the choice between it and the constitution is a reasonable one.

In other words using the word “climate” in the headline (and body of article) the way the left uses it, in a way legitimizes the environazis agenda.

A better headline would have been...

“Lawless Obama’s use of global warming fraud to control your life”

[raptor22]

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[Finny]

OBAMA power-grab my foot. It is the ENVIRONMENTALISTS’ power grab. It ain’t goin’ away when Obama goes away.

[raptor22]

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