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Obama Administration Announces Stalinist Environmental Tactics
The New American ^ | December 10, 2009 | Rebecca Terrell

Posted on 12/11/2009 2:22:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The Obama Administration plans to bypass Congress to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. According to Fox News, a top White House economic official warned Tuesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not wait for Congress to pass legislation on climate change.

The official said that if Congress does not take action, "the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area. And it is not going to be able to regulate in a market-based way, so it's going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way." He explained that legislation would provide compensation for small businesses hit hard by new rules, which EPA action alone could not provide.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson confirmed the threat at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Wednesday, saying regulators would frame new rules to complement cap-and-trade legislation pending in Congress. During her speech, she also bragged about the Obama Administration's new environmental policies. The New York Times quoted her saying, "In less than 11 months ... we have done more to promote clean energy and prevent climate change than happened in the last eight years." She highlighted the EPA's recent declaration that six greenhouse gases are a menace to public health and welfare, a move allowing the agency to tighten emissions restrictions on automobiles and industries.

The EPA's sudden increased power gives credence to Jackson's claims that the agency will be able to keep promises made at Copenhagen with or without Congressional approval.

House and Senate Republicans disagree and are planning a GOP delegation to Copenhagen to refute the Obama administration's totalitarian boasts. Fox News reports that Senators Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and John Barrasso of Wyoming will join U.S. Representatives Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, Joe Barton of Texas, and Darrell Issa of California at the conference next week. They plan a press conference to remind Copenhagen delegates that the United States cannot make any binding emissions agreements without Congressional approval. They also plan to give voice to skeptical views of global warming during official meetings of the conference.

Already this week the U.S. negotiator at Copenhagen has denied developing nations' calls for climate-change reparations. Delegates from poor countries claim America owes a debt for supposed damage to their ecosystems, public health, and economies from greenhouse gas emissions. The New York Times reports that Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy for climate change, scoffed at the idea during a press conference this week. "I actually completely reject the notion of a debt or reparations or anything of the like," he said. "For most of the 200 years since the Industrial Revolution, people were blissfully ignorant of the fact that emissions caused a greenhouse effect. It's a relatively recent phenomenon." Stern did, however, express plans to enact measures to cut emissions and to grant foreign aid to developing countries.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: capandtax; capandtrade; christianright; climatechange; climategate; congress; fubo; globalwarming; hoax; liberalfascism; marxistcoup; obama
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Did we elect a king last year?
1 posted on 12/11/2009 2:22:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, its a marxist occupation


2 posted on 12/11/2009 2:25:37 PM PST by two23 (You're paying for that)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It is getting to be storm the Bastille time.
3 posted on 12/11/2009 2:27:08 PM PST by Truth29
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And our Armed Forces are fighting for what now?


4 posted on 12/11/2009 2:28:08 PM PST by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mein Their Fuhrer...
5 posted on 12/11/2009 2:29:55 PM PST by DoughtyOne (A MELTING POT not a potters wheel. Join us. Don't try to turn this nation into the one you fled.)
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

6 posted on 12/11/2009 2:30:58 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How long until Obie abolishes Congress altogether?
I'd bet the second year of his second term.
7 posted on 12/11/2009 2:31:31 PM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What we have to do is tie up this bastard and his administration in litigation over ANYTHING he proposes until the Rats loose control of Congress and that bastard is impeached or voted out of office.


8 posted on 12/11/2009 2:36:34 PM PST by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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No Smoking Hot Spot

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

There is no greenhouse warming. Period.

9 posted on 12/11/2009 2:39:20 PM PST by TigersEye (Sarah Palin 2010 - We Can't Afford To Wait)
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FReepmail me to get on or off


Climategate rundown (extensive)
Ping me if you find one I've missed.


10 posted on 12/11/2009 2:44:58 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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U.S. special envoy for climate change..

What country do I live in? We have a special envoy for climate change? This administration must be stopped.

11 posted on 12/11/2009 3:05:32 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Looking for our Sam Adams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
a top White House economic official

Who is this official? I want his/her name.

12 posted on 12/11/2009 3:15:35 PM PST by good1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When does the revolution begin?


13 posted on 12/11/2009 3:27:22 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Falcon4.0
How long until Obie abolishes Congress altogether?

I'm thinking just before the next Pres. election, Obie and Rahm will conjure up a major "National Emergency" which, of course, will "for the good of the nation" require that all elections be suspended until further notice. Congress will be maintained in order to rubber stamp directives coming out of the WH.
14 posted on 12/11/2009 3:31:09 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Falcon4.0
In essence, he already has.

The WH can do whatever it wants, Holder can do whatever he wants.

There is no balance of power any more.

We are being occupied by the enemy.

15 posted on 12/11/2009 3:50:51 PM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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Funny how 300 MILLION armed Americans can be held hostage by a handful of people in DC. We deserve what we get.


16 posted on 12/11/2009 4:01:04 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: mojitojoe
I'm afraid you're right, mojitojoe.

The majority of Americans were sound asleep when this traitor and his gang of thugs were elected last November, while some of us were screaming as loud as we could to look at this radical pretender......... and too many are still slow in waking up.

I wonder how disastrous things will get before Americans take this country back from the invaders? I wonder how long we can survive this onslaught?

17 posted on 12/11/2009 4:05:33 PM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Bobkk47

I don’t think they’ll wait that long. I think it’s coming in 2010. Cloward-Piven.


18 posted on 12/11/2009 4:36:41 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: two23

19 posted on 12/11/2009 5:52:28 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , and truth (.Member NRA))
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his mother would be so proud


20 posted on 12/11/2009 8:06:18 PM PST by two23 (You're paying for that)
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