Where’s The Shadow Government?

Shout Bits Blog ^ | 12/12/09 | Shout Bits

[Shout Bits]

This week, the EPA extended its reach into every aspect of every American's life. Relying on shaky research and logic, the EPA declared CO2 and other gasses a public health hazard. Never mind that the plants, animals, and people the EPA seeks to protect have all lived through natural climate changes greater than any foretold by climate models. Even if global warming is real, the direst predictions are of economic disasters. Droughts, storms (or lack of storms), rising sea levels, are all things that ecosystems have dealt with for millions of years. While some scientists think global warming will cause human suffering, it is not expected to affect the health of the environment (not even polar bears).

Why, then, did the EPA decide to regulate everything everyone does every day? Because they can; while flippant, there is no better explanation. The EPA, along with a host of other agencies, is an expert agency that Congress gave a broad and permanent mandate. Better still, for the EPA, its status as an expert agency gives it the presumption of authority. In other words, citizens cannot simply prove the EPA is wrong based . . .

[Achilles Heel]

EPA, its status as an expert agency gives it the presumption of authority.

Hopefully, short-lived authority.

[guitarplayer1953]

Then the EPA needs to be neutered. They are not the legislative branch of the government they can not write laws. then congress need to censured for abdicating their responsibilities. does clean air EPA come under the Almighty commerce clause?

[mark3681]

They can’t touch me! I stopped exhaling months ago!

[ought-six]

The EPA must be defunded and then eliminated. EPA is the very essence of tyranny.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

~Abraham Lincoln,
Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1838)

[Tublecane]

“Why, then, did the EPA decide to regulate everything everyone does every day? Because they can; while flippant, there is no better explanation”

There are two better explanations:

1) They believe in man-made “climate change” and want to Heal the World.

2) They believe in socialism and want to punish private enterprise any way they can, which can be done conveniently under the cover of “climate change”.

[onyx]

The EPA must be defunded and then eliminated. EPA is the very essence of tyranny.

Right along with a long list of several other government agencies and departments.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

What an awesome quote from a great speech

Wasn't there something about this being a terrible move by Bozo - Obombus last night? I've been thinking right along he's acting as a single term prez. This first year is just a minor prelude. He's a scary guy.

[FlyingEagle]

He apparently has no intention of having another election

[FreeAtlanta]

I am going to throw an extra log on the fire in honor of the damn EPA. Screw them.

[FreeAtlanta]

He knows that his elegibilty is going to block him from reelection, so he has nothing to loose at this point. You are right. He is scary.