Obama's House of Cards (A re-post?)

Independant Institute ^ | September 15, 2015 | S. Fred Singer

[yoe]

Introduction

President Obama seems anxious to shore up his legacy in several disparate areas: concluding a nuclear deal with Iran; reaching an international climate accord in Paris in December 2015; phasing out fossil fuels for electric generation in favor of wind and solar; and also: shoring up Obamacare before the inevitable cost explosion; irreversibly changing the ethnic and moral make-up of the US; destroying the middle class and making a larger fraction dependent on government hand-outs. Obviously, many books can be written on these topics and on others, like immigration, race relations, education, gun control, and the generally increasing involvement of the feds in state and local affairs.

Here I will comment briefly on the first three topics: Iran, Paris, and Electric power. All three are controversial, with the public and Congress largely opposed to the White House (WH). It may take only one veto over-ride to bring down all of Obama’s initiatives; it depends mainly on coalitions forming among angry Democrat senators. [More on that below.]

1. Iran Nuclear Accord
2. The Paris Prognosis
3. The EPA’s “Clean” Power Plan (CPP)
i) Misuse of the Clean Air Act (CAA)
EPA’s “Clean Power Plan” will Quadruple US Electric Bills
To sum up:

[yoe]

Timely and interesting. [snip] This fall EPA plans to take its next grand regulatory step, following the announcement of the Clean Power Plan over the summer. EPA is likely to introduce stringent new standards for ground-level ozone, arguing that a lower allowable level of ozone, an important component of smog, will reduce asthma in the US, among other claimed health benefits. Yet the EPA ignores decades of data and studies, some under the agency’s own auspices, which reveal no detectable causal relation between past reductions in ozone and better public health, including reductions in asthma cases.

If you disagree with Mr. Obama, you risk being called racist. If you disagree with climate change cum global warming...you not only risk being called a denier but doing so runs the risk of jail time. Welcome to Obama's world.

[butlerweave]

I think Obama plans to stay on and if the Paris Party works in his favor he’ll announce soon

[atc23]

I think Obama plans to stay on and if the Paris Party works in his favor he’ll announce soon

I think he's sick of it but he could if he wanted to - who's gonna stop him? The Supreme Court? , the GOPe?

[AlaskaErik]

Obama’s legacy is streaming into Europe unchecked and unvetted. His other legacy cost people their doctors and their health plan in exchange for a higher priced health plan with much higher deductibles and less coverage.

[o_1_2_3__]

Is "climate change" still being stoked behind the scenes by algore? Is he going to rule the world?