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Democratic Climate Revolt
Wall Street Journal ^ | FEBRUARY 7, 2010 | Editorial

Posted on 02/07/2010 6:42:59 PM PST by ricks_place

A bipartisan effort to stop the EPA's anticarbon crusade.

The Obama Administration has been moving full-speed ahead on anticarbon regulation, never mind waiting for Congress to pass a bill. But now opposition is building among senior Democrats, with two powerful committee Chairmen introducing a bill last week to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from declaring that carbon is a dangerous pollutant.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is busy writing new rules that would let her drive a tax-and-regulation bulldozer through the U.S. economy under laws never meant to apply to greenhouse gases. Ms. Jackson is expected to issue new anticarbon regulations for cars and trucks next month before moving on to power plants and other industries.

This is all too much for Missouri's Ike Skelton and Minnesota's Collin Peterson, the Chairmen of the House Armed Services and Agriculture Committees, respectively. Along with Missouri Republican Jo Ann Emerson, they are pushing a two-page bill that would amend the Clean Air Act to restore Congress's original intent and strip CO2 and other greenhouse gases from the statutory language.

This is bipartisanship we can believe in. Such legislation would vaporize the EPA's "endangerment finding" for carbon and thus require the Administration to use democratic debate and persuasion if it really wants to reshape the energy markets and impose huge new costs on American consumers. What a thought.

"If Congress doesn't do something soon, the EPA is going to cram these regulations through all on their own," Mr. Peterson said. "I have no confidence that EPA can regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act without severe harm to all taxpayers."

Added Mr. Skelton: "Simply put, we cannot tolerate turning over the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions to unelected bureaucrats at EPA. America's energy and environmental policies should be set by Congress." Yes, they should be.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Minnesota; US: Missouri; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: 111th; alaska; bhofascism; bhotyranny; democrats; envirofascism; epa; epabrownshirts; globalwarming; liberalfascism; minnesota; missouri; northdakota; obama
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To: ricks_place

“Democrats are Revolting!” Yes they are! :-)


61 posted on 02/08/2010 5:18:55 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: vbmoneyspender
People with college degrees often believe in incredibly stupid things.

Put another way, "It's uncommon to find a college graduate with common sense."

62 posted on 02/08/2010 5:48:13 AM PST by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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To: ApplegateRanch
I seem to recall the Anthropomorphic Global Warming crowd attacking reasoned analysis... LOL!!!!!!

Tickle! LOL

Its the policy that is wrong on technical merit, legal political power, and economic consequence. Attacking the Administrator muddies that message.

The AWG supporters used ad hominem attacks rather than address the issues raised by outsiders who were called behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate skeptics among other less kind adjectives.

63 posted on 02/08/2010 5:53:32 AM PST by ricks_place
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To: sergeantdave
Next you’ll be inferring respect for king obuma and heinrich holder because they have law degrees from ivy league colleges.

I do recognize and respect the academic accomplishments of Obama and Holder. Though it would be easier to respect Obama's accomplishments if he actually released his records. The Obama and Holder Policies are wrong on many fronts and should be attacked without quarter.

64 posted on 02/08/2010 6:00:28 AM PST by ricks_place
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To: Retired COB
"It's uncommon to find a college graduate with common sense."

It's uncommon to find anyone with common sense.

65 posted on 02/08/2010 6:02:41 AM PST by ricks_place
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To: dcgst4

he was simply refuting what another freeper had written regarding her not having any kind of science background.


66 posted on 02/08/2010 6:06:34 AM PST by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

It’s unconscionable that Obama won’t even acknowledge the problems and scandals the AGW proponents have had the last few months, he’s an ideologue first and foremost.

If the MSM were to apply pressure and constantly ask tough questions about it, he might back down from his foolish AGW stance.


67 posted on 02/08/2010 6:11:51 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Charles Martel
...Maybe she's just "book smart".

Maybe Lisa Jackson is just "book smart" or maybe she's just smart in the ways of Democrat politics. I wonder if children regularly check their parents insurance situation, doubtful.

Engineering studies require courses in hard mathematics and hard sciences. A Conspiracy of all those Profs to pass someone with highest marks seems near impossible.

Nevertheless, the policy Jackson pushes is wrong on technical merit, wrong on legal authority, and wrong on economics. Wrong, wrong, wrong unless her goals are aligned with ELF, ALF, Ted Kaczynski's anti-technology uni-bomber manifesto, Greenpeace, EarthFirst, and the rest of the eco-wackos.

68 posted on 02/08/2010 6:20:00 AM PST by ricks_place
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
BTW, any html you enter by hand will nerf the auto-links of website addresses.

I was wondering about that.

69 posted on 02/08/2010 6:59:35 AM PST by kitchen (One battle rifle for each person, and a spare for each pair.)
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To: ApplegateRanch
Thanks AGR!
70 posted on 02/08/2010 9:06:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: Parley Baer

There may not be enough Dems to override a veto in March, but I suspect that next January there will be more than enough.


71 posted on 02/08/2010 1:42:10 PM PST by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: dcgst4

One time I had to give a briefing to the head of manufacturing on a major aerospace project.

The VP’s deputies cautioned me to read every bullet on every slide to him.

I found out later that the VP COULD NOT READ OR WRITE!

Oh yeah, he was a total JERK too.


72 posted on 02/08/2010 3:06:04 PM PST by darth
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To: Brett66
I think they should start making snow men, snow women, or in Barney Frank's case, please don't molest the snow. But they should look at that white stuff on the ground and cool their jets. But they won't. They can't. The left won't let them. Ever see a raccoon trap? The raccoon holds a shiny object in a hole, but the object is too wide. The poor creature just stands there until you catch it. The raccoon refuses to give it up. It's pathetic.
73 posted on 02/08/2010 5:50:05 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: darth

Yikes!!!


74 posted on 02/08/2010 7:44:24 PM PST by dcgst4
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