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States tell Obama to take a hike--Feds denied jurisdiction on environment, health and guns
The Washington Times ^
| September 15, 2010
| Editorial
Posted on 09/15/2010 4:03:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
States across the country want Washington to stop meddling in their affairs when it comes to the environment, health care and guns, and it's not just right-wingers leading the charge. Last week, Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal fired a shot at the Environmental Protection Agency for its attempt to coerce the state into regulating carbon dioxide as if this naturally occurring gas were a pollutant.
In a letter to the EPA, Mr. Freudenthal cited a 1999 act of the legislature that prohibited him from taking any action to implement the Kyoto Protocol regarding reductions in so-called greenhouse gases. Without U.S. Senate ratification, Kyoto never became the law of the land, and congressional Democrats have failed to enact the restrictions through a cap-and-trade law. That has left the Obama administration with no choice but to turn to the unelected bureaucracy to implement its agenda.
That doesn't sit well with Mr. Freudenthal, a Democrat and a 2008 convention superdelegate for Mr. Obama. Mr. Freudenthal hasn't been in any rush to call a special session to ask the legislature to modify state law. "He's very troubled by the administration's policies toward coal and other natural resources," governor's office spokesman Leigh Anne G. Manlove told The Washington Times. "He has some serious concerns about how they impact Wyoming."
~snip~
This is the silver lining to Mr. Obama's legislative excess. Even members of his own party can see that it's time to restore respect for the Ninth and 10th amendments to the Constitution by limiting federal power.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: democrats; obama; tenthamendment
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posted on
09/15/2010 4:03:25 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
Am I the only one asking how an ultra red state can have a RAT gov?
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posted on
09/15/2010 4:04:54 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: Zathras
That thought has crossed my mind also though I know little about MT.
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posted on
09/15/2010 4:08:33 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: Zathras
-—it’s the result of an election-—
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posted on
09/15/2010 4:08:59 PM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: jazusamo
The Dem Congress proved that they are totally in the tank for Barry and his inner circle of megalomaniacs when they voted for the health care bill on a few hours notice without reading any of the contents of the bill. They were just given a thousand pages of legislation and told by Barry’s assistants to votes yes and they slavishly complied. While I can respect people with opinions different from me I cannot respect toadies that just do what they’re told without thinking critically. Time to clean House.
To: rellimpank
"there's a problem with the sun"
"the sun? what is it?"
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posted on
09/15/2010 4:39:14 PM PDT
by
The_Sword_of_Groo
("When the debate is lost, slander is the tool of the loser"- Socrates)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
09/15/2010 5:23:42 PM PDT
by
phockthis
To: jazusamo
That thought has crossed my mind also though I know little about MT. "He has some serious concerns about how they impact Wyoming."
Democrats in Wyoming are more conservative than Republicans in Utah. They don't cotton to no feds pushing them around.
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posted on
09/15/2010 6:02:22 PM PDT
by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: Max in Utah
There it is, I don’t a danged thing about either. :-)
Honest, I really did read the article.
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posted on
09/15/2010 6:12:36 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: Zathras
The same way The Citizens of The United States Of America Can Elect A Marxist. Its Called Stupidity ,to be Kind And Ignorance on a MASSIVE scale.
To: jazusamo; SolitaryMan; rdl6989; livius; DollyCali; IrishCatholic; meyer; SteamShovel; Desdemona; ...
Beam me to Planet Gore !EPA: An unelected, flunky bureaucracy populated with radical, no-growth, Marxist, environmental nut-jobs wielding rogue powers based in junk science. A cancer on the private sector. Ultimately, the EPA is not about the environment. It is about legislating from the Executive Branch in Soviet Agency style. It has the convenient unconstitutional feature of allowing the Obama Administration to pursue an extreme global warming agenda, to make energy prices necessarily sky-rocket, and gain sweeping regulatory control over the US economy without a politically difficult vote in congress.
Action against EPA abuse of power by private enterprise:
Action against EPA abuse of power by state/federal government:
- TX: A Green Tea Party
- TX: Texas, Skeptics Seek Court Review of EPA's 'Endangerment' Finding
- TX: Texas sues EPA over anti-pollution plan
- TX: Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
- TX: UPDATE 1-Texas to challenge US greenhouse gas rules
- TX: Governor Rick Perry To Sue the EPA
- TX: Texas Fight! What Other States Can Learn from Texas vs U.S. EPA
- VA: Cuccinelli, Virginia Attorney General Challenges EPA on Greenhouse Gas
- VA: Va. challenges EPA's stance on global warming
- VA: Virginia challenges EPA ruling on greenhouse gases
- VA: Video: Virginia AG Tells EPA To Go Back To The Drawing Board Over Globaloney
- VA: Cuccinelli seeks to block EPAs global-warming petition Attorney general disputes climate change...
- VA: Cuccinelli Fights the EPA
- VA: EPA, Countering Critics of Greenhouse Gas Findings, Says 'Science Is Settled'
- VA: Newly-Elected Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli: Activist!
- UT, TX, VA: Texas, Utah, Virginia Sue over Fraudulent Glo-Bull Warming
- AL, TX, VA: Three States Sue EPA Over Global Warming Ruling
- MS: Barbour Lobbies Fellow Governors to Oppose EPA Regulations
- AK: Alaska senator moves to strip EPA's authority
- FL, IN, SC, VA, TX, AL et al: US states sue EPA to stop greenhouse gas rules [FL, IN, SC, VA, TX, AL...]
- Fed: Effort To Block EPA Greenhouse Ruling Now Bipartisan
- Fed: Senior Democrats floating bill to block EPA on plans for greenhouse gas rules
- Fed: US Reps from Mo. to propose blocking EPA gas rules
- Fed: Democrat slow learners wake up to EPA power grab ( CO2 Gas is a pollutant?)
- Fed: House Democrats challenge EPA on greenhouse gases
- Fed: Helter-Skelton: Key Lawmaker Reverses On Climate Action
- Fed: House GOP targets EPA rules
- Fed: US Sen. Rockefeller seeks EPA carbon rule delay
Action in support of EPA abuse of power:
☆☆ States Officially Rejecting Anthropogenic Global Warming
☆ Utah
☆ Arizona
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posted on
09/16/2010 4:19:15 AM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
("Release the Second Chakra !!!!!!!" ... Al Gore, 10/24/06)
To: steelyourfaith
EPA: An unelected, flunky bureaucracy populated with radical, no-growth, Marxist, environmental nut-jobs wielding rogue powers based in junk science...RIGHT ON!!
Thanks for pinging your list.
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posted on
09/16/2010 10:50:46 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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