Obama reverses Bush policy on 'warming'

WND ^ | 2/9/09 | Jerome R. Corsi

[Nachum]

– Reflecting the Obama administration's embrace of government policies that enforce a politically charged climate-change agenda, two federal agencies settled a six-year lawsuit, agreeing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars promoting renewable energy standards in energy-poor countries and to establish new carbon emission standards applicable to future development projects the two agencies fund.

The sudden decision by the Obama administration to settle the "global warming" cases marks a dramatic reversal of the Bush administration's determination to fight the case in federal court. The cases were first filed by a host of environmental groups and four typically activist cities allied with their efforts.

[Nachum]

Specifically, the U.S. will now refuse to help finance development overseas if the environmental establishment claims that it would contribute to 'global warming,'" Horner said.

[Nachum]

Added to "The List"

The List

First president not to attend The Inaugural Medal of Honor Ball
Many exectutive orders the first week in office. Including
* -allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States.
* - Scrapping the Mexico City Policy that protected taxpayers from involvement in overseas abortions for eight years. Obama will send hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that aggressively promote abortions on a worldwide scale.
Obama issued Executive Order "Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects", revoking Bush Executive Orders 13202 and 13208. The new order encourages federal executives to require government contractors and subcontractors to use union-organized labor.
Obama issues Executive Order "Amendments to Executive Order 13199 Establishment of the President's Advisory Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.". Neighborhood partnerships" have equal footing with faith-based ones. The local Planned Parenthood or ACORN center will be treated like a house of God, in the eyes of the federal government.
First official phone call to Abbas
Insults China
First interview, with foreign news outlet- for Muslims
Talks about his muslim family
Picks fight with Limbaugh
Won't take question from press
Allows to FDA approve first human embryonic stem cell safety trial (3 days after Pres. Bush left)
Excludes any compromise with GOP on Stimulus bill Massive pork in stimulus bill
5% of stimulus bill to actually go to infrastructure
Offers to negotiate directly with Iran
Puts 5 millionairs on his cabinet
Makes a tax cheat the Sec. of the Treasury
Bombs Pakistan
Argues with the Pope on abortion
Signed the SCHIP bill, that gives health care to illegals
Won't allow a video of his retaking of the oath of office
Ordered the closure of Gitmo
Halts all pending Bush regulations
Second week:
Appoints extremist Samantha Powers to head foreign policy team
Secret nuke talks with Iran/Syria
Appoints tax cheat for commerce secretary
Illegal alien aunt, granted a "stay" of deportation Daschle the tax cheat/lobbiest proposed as secretary for health care
Nancy Killefer for candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for federal government fails to pay household help taxes ...withdrawn
Obama brings the U.S. Census Bureau under White House jurisdiction under protest from Republican lawmakers
12 lobbyists (or more) appointed to high gov't positions within the first 14 days of his administration (up to 17 by another source)
Administration demands defense cuts of 10% during wartime
Obama envoy George Mitchell tells Palistinians " they believe can extract from Israel concessions reaching "much further" than during talks held under the previous administration
The European Union warns the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting Obama's “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war Obama immediately backs down from policy
After stating her priority would be "mum-in-chief", Michelle Obama goes on listening tour and then makes political speeches with her husband not yet one month in office...
George Mitchell resigns from a Saudi Lobbying firm, two weeks into his appointment as "Special Middle East Envoy"
Obama administration says it will cancel 77 drilling leases near Utah parks
Ogden, President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, used to represent Playboy
Steven Chu, Obama's secretary of energy (not a climatologist) states: California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming
Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat Ron Simms to the #2 position in HUD
Hilda Solis, Obama's pick for labor secretary's husband is found to be a tax cheat just before the confirmation vote
Directed military prosecutors to revoked charges pending against mastermind of USS Cole bombing: Al Nashiri
Adding insult to injury: speaks to families of USS Cole dead, after decision to free Al Nashiri- not before

Third week in office

Obama changes the setup of the National Security Councel by executive order
Shauna Daly, professional “dirt digger” hired as “White House councel research director”
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel got free housing from House rep (D) Rosa DeLauro for 5 years . DeLauro is married to Stan Greenberg; a pollster (Quinlin Rosner Research) with lucrative contracts from both that representatives.
A Syrian paper reported that the Obama U.S. Dept. of Commerce agreed to sell plane parts to Syria
A lawyer for the Obama administration surprised a panel of federal appeals judges by making an argument to preserve state secrets in a trial regarding terrorism subjects. This argument was made, after repeatedly attacking the Bush administration for doing the same thing.
President Obama said Monday that "only government" can shake the country out of recession, as he tried to settle doubts about his administration's costly economic recovery package during a prime-time press conference.
Obama reverses Bush policy on 'warming' Federal agencies settle long-standing case in favor of environmentalists. The U.S. will now refuse to help finance development overseas if the environmental establishment claims that it would contribute to 'global warming

[AngelesCrestHighway]

two federal agencies settled a six-year lawsuit, agreeing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars promoting renewable energy standards in energy-poor countries and to establish new carbon emission standards applicable to future development projects the two agencies fund.

Obama is a nightmare!....IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!

[griswold3]

Good job!

[texmexis best]

This guy will end up dealing only with irrelevant trivia, just like Jimmy Carter.

How did this goof get elected?

[Puppage]

and to establish new carbon emission standards

Which, in turn, equals higher manufacturing costs. Which, in turn, means WE pay MORE for EVERYTHING!

[Edgar3]

It’s the “progressive” version of “shock and awe”. They are throwing everything at us at once to try to ram it through. They’ve been planning this all out assault for decades.

[musicman]

[muawiyah]

Hey, even we could do that. Wouldn't have a doggone thing to do with "environmentalism", but it sure would smack down giving money away to funny little foreign people.

Fur Shur.

(Law of Unintended Consequences)

[sinanju]

This specifically involves loan guarantees by the ExIm bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Two government-sponsored enterprises (re: Fannie and Freddie) that tend to move under the radar making taxpayer-guaranteed loans to U.S. companies engaged in foreign projects.

I got a lesson about both these little boondoggles in Timothy Carney’s “The Big Rip-Off.” If this keeps these outfits from wasting more of our money on projects that should be able to attract private capital if they are worthy then that’s just fine by me.

[Library Lady]

Thanks for the list.

[Brett66]

This could be a good thing, use the environment as an excuse to kill foreign aid. Obviously not what Obummer intended.......

[Paladin2]

Uh, warming of a few degrees C is a good thing. See History.

[Nachum]

If this keeps these outfits from wasting more of our money on projects that should be able to attract private capital if they are worthy then that’s just fine by me.

Unfortunately, it is not about these outfits wasting our money. It is about Obama's cronies getting the deal and wasting even more $$.

[Blogger]

bump

[muawiyah]

You have your finger on it. One of the values of NOT messing too much with previous Executive Orders has to do with the way they're written.

For the most part EOs "tie together" bits and pieces of statutory law found in diverse places to deal with "process".

When you change the EOs you frequently run afoul of those "bits and pieces" somewhere and that gives your political enemies the opportunity to attack the "substance" the "process" was targeting.

I learned that lesson years ago from a fellow (Dr. Roberts) who'd used an FDR EO to transfer "seniority" from one federal agency to the Post Office Department. That created a precedent (he was sharp enough to appeal a denial to Civil Service and thereby win his case). Later on that precedent was used to subvert Postal union agreements under the old POD.

A whole new body of law was required inside the act that established the agency called United States Postal Service so that unions could be recogized and so that contracts/agreements with them could be enforced. Else this little "precedent" regarding transferring seniority would have continued to cause havoc.

BTW, that "precedent" created quite a few other disruptions which were all dealt with in the Postal Reform Act.

I'm sure Obama has already caused enough damage that there'll be no end of litigation regarding his own EOs, and he will get bogged down in dealing with the minutiae within those EOs ~ exactly like Carter.

[muawiyah]

Of course ~ Obama’s people simply aren’t smart enough to think two steps ahead ~ and they live in a world where their adversaries think 20 steps ahead ~ at least those who post on FR do.

[fml]

How did this good get elected?

psssst...he looks like his father, not his mother.

[listenhillary]

[Foolsgold]