Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/11/2009 6:09:51 AM PST by Clint Williams
Both the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy approved earlier this year and the version just okayed by Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Democrats (Republicans boycotted the vote) contains an obscure but nasty bureaucratic provision that requires President Obama to act like Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez.
Here’s how: The bills require a federal declaration of a “climate emergency” if world greenhouse gas levels reach 450 parts per million. Guess what? The Pacific Northwest National Lab says it is a virtual certainty that level will be reached within a few months. The bill then requires the president to “direct all Federal agencies to use existing statutory authority to take appropriate actions...to address shortfalls" in achieving needed greenhouse gas reductions.
When Vitter asked EPA Administrator what would be done in such a situation, she refused to say. So it must be asked: Would the president be empowered to do things like nationalize whole sectors of industry, ban coal use, restrict private automobile use, or anything else the “emergency” requires? ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Not if we have tea, while they get their haircut.
If Texas succedes from the Union, I am moving back (if they will have me).
They have us surrounded. We are being overwhelmed by imbaciles.
when obama announces ET is here and willing to deal with him to spare the world, he will be crowned as caesar
Where is our liberty? There isn't any.
Where is a big volcano when you need one.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
“Not if we have tea, while they get their haircut.”
I think it’s historical and customary to knit while they get their haircut.
“climate emergency” my litte btown eye!
Impeachment or insurrection?
I had hoped the military would eventually show this communist the door but after hearing General Casey this weekend saying that worse than the murder of the 13 soldiers would be harming diversity......well, obviously the military leadership is compromised. That is, unless he was told to say that by his boss.
Obama has numerous options to assume near dictatorial powers due to one or another trumped up emergency. He has already declared the swine flu a national emergency. I would not be surprised if after a Democrat blood bath in the 2010 elections Obama declares some emergency to solidify his power.
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