States tell Obama to take a hike--Feds denied jurisdiction on environment, health and guns

States across the country want Washington to stop meddling in their affairs when it comes to the environment, health care and guns, and it's not just right-wingers leading the charge. Last week, Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal fired a shot at the Environmental Protection Agency for its attempt to coerce the state into regulating carbon dioxide as if this naturally occurring gas were a pollutant.

In a letter to the EPA, Mr. Freudenthal cited a 1999 act of the legislature that prohibited him from taking any action to implement the Kyoto Protocol regarding reductions in so-called greenhouse gases. Without U.S. Senate ratification, Kyoto never became the law of the land, and congressional Democrats have failed to enact the restrictions through a cap-and-trade law. That has left the Obama administration with no choice but to turn to the unelected bureaucracy to implement its agenda.

That doesn't sit well with Mr. Freudenthal, a Democrat and a 2008 convention superdelegate for Mr. Obama. Mr. Freudenthal hasn't been in any rush to call a special session to ask the legislature to modify state law. "He's very troubled by the administration's policies toward coal and other natural resources," governor's office spokesman Leigh Anne G. Manlove told The Washington Times. "He has some serious concerns about how they impact Wyoming."

This is the silver lining to Mr. Obama's legislative excess. Even members of his own party can see that it's time to restore respect for the Ninth and 10th amendments to the Constitution by limiting federal power.

The Dem Congress proved that they are totally in the tank for Barry and his inner circle of megalomaniacs when they voted for the health care bill on a few hours notice without reading any of the contents of the bill. They were just given a thousand pages of legislation and told by Barry’s assistants to votes yes and they slavishly complied. While I can respect people with opinions different from me I cannot respect toadies that just do what they’re told without thinking critically. Time to clean House.

Beam me to Planet Gore !EPA: An unelected, flunky bureaucracy populated with radical, no-growth, Marxist, environmental nut-jobs wielding rogue powers based in junk science. A cancer on the private sector. Ultimately, the EPA is not about the environment. It is about legislating from the Executive Branch in Soviet Agency style. It has the convenient unconstitutional feature of allowing the Obama Administration to pursue an extreme global warming agenda, to make energy prices necessarily sky-rocket, and gain sweeping regulatory control over the US economy without a politically difficult vote in congress.

Action against EPA abuse of power by private enterprise:

CEI: CEI, Science Groups Petition EPA to Reconsider Increasingly Dubious Global Warming “Endangerment” Finding
CEI: New Lawsuit, Petition Challenge EPA Global Warming Regulations
PEC: World’s biggest coal company brings U.S. government to court in climate fraud
PEC: World’s biggest coal company brings U.S. government to court in climate fraud
CEI, NAM, API, CRA, OCA, UARG, etc.: 16 'Endangerment' Lawsuits Filed Against EPA Before Deadline
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: U.S. Chamber lawsuit attacks basis for EPA emissions limits

Action against EPA abuse of power by state/federal government:

Action in support of EPA abuse of power:

NYC et al: CLIMATE: States seek to intervene in challenge to EPA's endangerment finding

☆☆ States Officially Rejecting Anthropogenic Global Warming

☆ Utah
☆ Arizona

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