Posted on 03/15/2010 5:31:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Regulation: The New York Times says the EPA should use its authority to regulate our very breath if a Democratic Congress isn't "goaded" into action. Whatever happened to government of the people?
It's been a pattern of this administration that if the American people are adamantly opposed to it, ram it through anyway. So it's been with the health care overhaul, offshore drilling restrictions and now the Environmental Protection Agency threatening to become the uber-regulator of the air we breathe.
The New York Times says in a Saturday editorial regarding that last item that if Congress fails to enact cap-and-trade legislation such as Waxman-Markey or Kerry-Boxer, the EPA should jam it down our throats.
After all, the Supreme Court said the EPA had the power, even the obligation, to impose draconian restrictions on so-called greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide. The elected representatives of the American people should just get out of the way.
We've heard this argument before. Last April, Time magazine ran a piece titled "EPA'S CO2 Finding: Putting A Gun To Congress' Head." This isn't the government structure the Founding Fathers envisioned.
They had in mind a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government, and the EPA was not one of them. The only gun that should be held to Congress' head is the vote of the American people.
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"The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree." --Thomas Jefferson to John Wyche, 1809.
excellent post
If Congress hadn’t put the stupid law there enabling the EPA in the first place, the Court would have had nothing to order it to do. And Congress could fix this overnight if it wished. This disaster is simply a dodge of Congress.
“the EPA should jam it down our throats. After all, the Supreme Court said the EPA had the power...”
That’s the Supreme Court before Obozo tried to dishonor them during the SOTU address.
Game on is my guess. Same is true for the methods that congress is trying to use to force HC and some provisions of the HC bill itself.
As for the people knowing what politics are going on, denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
“. And Congress could fix this overnight if it wished. This disaster is simply a dodge of Congress.”
Congress endowed unelected bureaucrats with the power to write law. It’s completely illegal. Congress can no more give its law-making power to unaccountable bureaucrats than obuma can give his war-making power to Bill Ayers. Congress may at anytime take away this power but refuses to do so.
Unelected bureaucrats writing law is one of the primary traits of a dictatorship. About time people realize that.
“Illegal” with the USSC’s blessing. They decided quite a few decades ago that as long as Congress’ intent in establishing the bureau can be discerned to the point that a regulation created by the bureau can be tested against that intent, such bureaus and such regulations are OK.
(So yes, Congress could undermine this action of the EPA, if it had the will.)
The New York Slimes is already on it’s last breath.
“Illegal” with the USSC’s blessing.”
Exactly, which shows the totalitarian cancer has infested every nook and cranny of federal government.
Not only do the federal bureaucracies need to be ripped out by the roots and burned, some good portion of the judiciary needs to be impeached and removed.
And you’re right that this has been going on since the 1920s. The idea that the court has the last word on what is lawful and what’s not lawful is profane and a slap in the face to the founders.
The House, with its power to create courts, direct the courts on what they may rule on and the power to withhold money, is clearly the most powerful branch of government.
We have been betrayed by the greedy pigs in Washington for 100 years. That needs to end - one way or another.
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