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Posted on 10/02/2009 9:52:35 AM PDT by FourPeas
There's more than one way to get cap-and-trade, President Obama's energy czar said today.
Carol Browner, the former Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) administrator who now serves in the Obama administration's newly created role of energy czar, floated the possibility today of the EPA implementing cap-and-trade energy policies, during an interview at The Atlantic's First Draft of History symposium in Washington, DC.
"We also have the reality of EPA, under current law, moving forward...to start the traditional regulatory clock," Browner said when asked, during an interview with Atlantic Media Political Director Ronald Brownstein, about the difficulties of passing the stalled energy/climate bill--which would implement a cap-and-trade carbon emissions scheme--through the Senate.
Starting that "clock," as Browner puts it, would "obviously encourage the business community to raise their voices in Congress"--since businesses could wind up with a less cohesive regulatory scheme, more difficult to comply with in multiple states, if the EPA moves forward on its own.
Environmentalists have pushed for the EPA to implement emissions reforms if Democrats can't pass a bill, circumventing the politics of Congress and using the EPA's environmental authority to get the job done, and there's a pending Supreme Court case on the matter.
But it's not viewed as a likely scenario--which some members of the environmental community readily admit--even as the reforms passed by the House have become mired in the upper chamber, with analysts skeptical that a formidable cap-and-trade plan will pass.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.theatlantic.com ...
THAT should bring about the Mother of all Lawsuits.
Having the 0 come out and actually end run the Congress will wake up the Left leading "moderates" to what a bunch of fascists run the 0 regime. Nothing would be better suited to destroy the 0 machine then this sort of overreach
Ping.
Unlike statues passed by Congress, agency regulations can be legally challenged based on their technical merits/scientific validity.
There is more than one way to cause a revolution.
I say we get rid of all the czars AND the EPA... just to be sure.
Let them try.
The awakened sleeping giant will stomp all over this administration!
Unlike statutes... (!)
This takes the cake for chutzpah. In other words, "we'll impose an arbitrary, screwed up set of agency rules so bad you'll wish you had a Cap and Trade Law to keep the EPA under control."
The words "administrative tyranny" are applicable here.
new and high taxation without a law??
tyranny!!!
The can regulate it, but can they tax it? There’s the rub.
Smokeless powder turns to mostly CO2 also.
End around for ammo bans coming soon....
(kidding... I hope)
We're about to be czarred and fettered.
But this is a separation of powers issue.
The President can not govern by fiat, and that's what Browner is proposing.
We could be headed for a Constitutional crisis.
Carol Browner is a bona fide Socialist. That’s how they roll....
One man’s tax is another man’s fine. The EPA is very good at developing monitary fines for violating regulations.
No, chickie, because Congress has the power to levy taxes, not some unelected czarina filling in for President Present.
Bring it on because the courts need something to chew on.
It might as well be you.
defund EPA
All these Clinton retreads had an eight year rest, but they never stopped thinking of ways to turn America into a Marxist cesspool.
Has Browner or anyone else at the EPA read this article from the Telegraph?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351125/posts
EPA bureaucrats must understand that there’s no real evidence of global warming and we’re still in the research phase on this issue. There IS a lively, active debate on global warming in the scientific community. The debate is NOT over. There’s no justification for this kind of radical cap-and-trade scheme that would crush the American economy just as it’s struggling to emerge from a recession. Is this administration insane? This is no time for all these proposals to increase taxes and regulation. All these proposals are creating uncertainty and fear in the business community, which causes business people to not hire workers and not make new investments. All these tax and regulation schemes must be dropped immediately so our economy can recover.
We’re already drowning in federal debt and this crazy administration is worried about the totally unproven global warming theory. This administration is filled with radical kooks and nuts with no concept of reasonable judgment. The GOP must take control of the House again in 2010 to save our country from the insanity of this extreme left-wing administration.
Also: "Section. 7. All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills."
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“Start the traditional regulatory clock” is apparently Newspeak for “Screw the Constitution and the law, we do what we want around here.”
This is like the old protection racket. Let me paraphrase Carol Browner: “You got a nice place here; it would be a shame if sumpin happened to it.”
You betcha.
There’s more than one way to get cap-and-trade, President Obama’s energy czar said today. Carol Browner, the former Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) administrator who now serves in the Obama administration’s newly created role of energy czar, floated the possibility today of the EPA implementing cap-and-trade energy policies
No more bureaucrats making laws!
You don't get it, do you? Congress would LOVE for Obozo to simply implement full Marxism without them. They'd love the policies and would have political cover.
Democrat Congressional leaders might but the voters in the 84 red McCain voting Congressional districts held by "Moderate" Democrats would not.
Contrary to the Chicken Little spin, we still have elections every 2 years in this country.
If nothing else, Congress would vote to defund the program.
The last thing Congressmen like, regardless of party, is someone trying to take away their power.
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