Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/12/2008 4:57:58 AM PDT by libstripper
Usually Congressional subcommittee hearings are as routine and tedious as they sound, but John Dingell managed to enliven one on Thursday. The venerable Michigan Democrat had the candor to point out that if climate change is really the transcendent challenge his party says it is, then Congress should bother to pass legislation, not outsource policy to the Environmental Protection Agency.
For months, the little tyrants of the global warming caucus – Barbara Boxer, Henry Waxman, Ed Markey – have been trying to force the EPA into declaring that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant under current clean air laws, which could result in a cap-and-trade program by regulatory decree. Such posturing allows Democrats to display crocodile outrage and take credit for "leadership" on a popular goal, while shifting the blame for the costs of achieving it onto the EPA. In the bargain, it insulates them from political consequences and avoids the grubby business of actually crafting some global warming "solution."
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... then if we could just outsource congress.
The proposals for CO2 cap-and-trade program by regulatory decree or by law is a financial scam. The benefit won’t be to the environment, it will put dollars in the pockets of the usual big money guys and financial dealers. Oh yeah, the UN is dealing itself in on this scam too as it wants to put its stamp of approval on the financial instruments that will be sold as carbon offsets.
When the left says it will solve a “problem” run away as fast as you can to save your pocketbook and your family’s freedoms.
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