EPA Tyranny Awaits Me....
I arrived home today after a few days away, and 8 hours on the road sans cruise control, to find that my complementary copy (Thanks Peter, Rob, James, & BY) of 'How The EPA's Green Tyranny is Stifling America' sitting in the stack of mail.
So I will now sit back with a pint of a tasty Bavarian schwarzbier, and read it front to back. Before I go, a couple of quick thoughts from flipping through the pages.
"It doesn't matter whether a Republican or a Democrat is living in the White House. The EPA is its own beast, with its own agenda." [pg. 11]
This quote brings up a subject that I have been meaning to write about for the last couple of weeks. It really doesn't matter who the President is...Republican President that is... Any Republican President, or rather his/her major appointees, will be better than the current crop. That is why I would have no problem pulling the lever for Romney. Because I know he would appoint someone better than Carol Browner or Lisa Jackson. Extrapolate that thought across all the agencies....
Second, the EPA is the perfect example of the power of regulation to 'dismantle' the economy. Whether it be the regulation that is passed in law, or the regulation that it conceived soley by an Agency's regulators.
From Jeff Carter:
"Obama has begun dismantling the economic engine that was America through intense regulatory transformation. Regulators now frame their regulations through not the lens of safety or best practices, or what is best for the market. They frame their actions through what’s best for big government.Big sweeping legislation passed in the first two years of his term, and now regulators rush to fill in the blanks. Twice I heard the same statement after the passage of Obamacare and Dodd-Frank. ”We will fix it.”That statement belies bad bills that became law in the first place.The EPA is no different. Your electric bills are going up 60% thanks to them. They have used a small window in mercury legislation to do something different.
“The real goal of the EPA’s rule is to shut down fossil fuel electric power in the name of climate change. The consensus estimate in the private sector is that the utility rule and eight others on the EPA docket will force the retirement of 60 out of the country’s current 340 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity. Reliability downgrades will hit the South and Midwest where coal energy is concentrated. American Electric Power recently announced that the rules will force it to shut down five plants in West Virginia and Ohio, a quarter of its coal fleet.”
Wonderful isn’t it?
Yep...just fabulous....
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Apr '11
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Charles Allen:
Another is to restrict land use by private individuals. Take the whole craziness over wetlands. Or places where endangered species live..
A true story about environmental bureaucrats. A group of them in government (I forget which agency) wanted to test an are of land to see if it contained some sort of endangered wildcat, which would have brought in a lot of regulation on that area if true. The idea was they'd put up pads so that the cats would rub up against them and get some of their hairs stuck, which they could send back to the lab and test to see what species it was. But they apparently didn't want to leave it to chance, so they actually went to the local zoo and got cat hairs from there and sent it to the lab. They were turned in by a colleague who was retiring.
Nov '10
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Charles Allen:
Second, the EPA is the perfect example of the power of regulation to 'dismantle' the economy. Whether it be the regulation that is passed in law, or the regulation that it conceived soley by an Agency's regulators.
My thoughts entirely. As I have posted on other threads here, we will NOT win back this country unless and until the power of the agencies to Rule by Regulation is curbed.
We need an amendment to the Constitution that provides that no regulation of any governmental agency may take effect unless and until it has been submitted in its final form to Congress, lain over for consideration for not less than sixty days, and thereafter received the approval of both houses. The Supreme Court has given the agencies virtually carte blanche to make law, relying upon the idea of delegation. It is an abomination and the key to the rise of Leviathan, the bureaucratic state.
May '10
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And if not an Amendment, at least an Executive Order by the next (Republican) President that states as much to his Executive Branch agencies... Then a hopefully GOP held House and Senate can hold hearings on such extra-Constitutional regulations, and clarifying intentionally vague language in previous laws.
I am sure there is a good think tank out there that could catalog all of the current regulatory enforcement that has not been sanctioned by a vote in Congress.
Apr '11
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NOOOOOOO! ORomney broke the Law.
Mitt ORomney is an Obama clone with a GOP ticket.
*Romneycare*Claims to be pro-life but governs pro-choice
*Appeases Gays and will not uphold DOM act anymore than Obama will.
Here's a summary of his record to prove that he is a criminal who ignores the law and ignores court orders. If elected, he will certainly continue this lawless behavior as president. Just like Barry...... Disgusting behavior!
http://www.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147506905
Oct '10
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Another round of irrelevant blather about how the GOP candidates will make a difference when they are in power. Get used to it. The Socialists have no opposition, just a bunch of wannabe tyrants without the guts to go the full Monte.
Come back in four years, even if Obama loses, and the momentum might be slowed slightly, but nothing about the direction will be altered.
Conservatives have been deceiving themselves for decades about the Republicans being allies. They are not. They are merely the same crowd of country clubbers they have always been.
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I do not doubt that Romney would be an improvement on Obama. I doubt that he would be much of an improvement. Apart from Reagan, what Republican was a serious improvement on the Democrats.
If your answer is "Alas, none." Then it is high time that we found a candidate actually hostile to administrative control over our lives.
Edited on Jun 15, 2011 at 5:03pmOct '10
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Despite any thoughts about correcting the course of events, remember, the more things change, the more they stay the same....
Here is one for the green and carbon tax minded folk to deal with. One volcanic eruption produces more into the precious atmosphere than all that of man in a decade...
Apply Cap and Trade to the countries that have nasty volcanoes, makes sense...Yes ?
Apr '11
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Calvin Coolidge over Woodrow Wilson.
Abraham Lincoln over James Buchanan.
Dec '10
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On this subject, I can think of a Democrat that was an improvement over the previous Republican. Lawton Chiles (D) succeeded Bob Martinez (R) as FL governor, in 1991.
Chiles found a Dept. of Environmental Regulation so out of control that he couldn't get a simple "Cook Shack" built on his land, so he set about revamping the agency (and others), to make them more accountable. He wasn't very comfortable with his head of the FDER, but her socialistic zeal found admirers elsewhere. Carol Browner was appointed EPA administrator by Clinton. She was brought back to the Administration as Obama's Energy czar. At least she had to leave town for 8 years, under Bush.