Obama rules by decree because Congress lets him

wnd.com ^ | 6/4/2014 | Lord Monckton

[rktman]

During the 2008 election campaign, Mr. Obama made two things clear. First, that the Constitution of the United States was a reactionary document that stood in the way of socialism. Secondly, that he was going to wage war on coal.

[polymuser]

They’re not correcting SCOTUS, either.
Taxation without representation.
Broken oaths.
Dereliction of duty.
I vote no confidence.

[Ben Ficklin]

That is a very well written and informative article that states the situation. It mentions all 3 court decisions and explains the argument the SCOTUS will soon be ruling on.

Freepers should be posting articles like this instead of those like the Lord Crock-ton article published at World Nut Daily.

[rktman]

Thanks for the link. Guess we can’t be classified as low/no info types in any case. Sometimes we get overloaded with info. :>}

[rollo tomasi]

"Lord Crock-ton" was correct since the SCOTUS decisions were just outlining "...that Congress has foolishly handed away too many of its powers..."

The SCOTUS are just middle-men in this fiasco. "Lord Crock-ton's" thesis is correct "Congress has been handing over its lawmaking power to people whom nobody elects" is the root of this from the authoritarian/legal side, not SCOTUS (Who just examined the "picture").

Your point is moot since Congress just sits on their hands while the nuts at World "Nut" Daily point this out.

Even your response to seven's link ignored his point "Lord Crock-ton" made.

[Ben Ficklin]

You have left out one of the major events in the sequence of events that led us to this point.

Knowing where the SCOTUS 2007 decision would lead, Congress, in 2008, had a big debate on how they would regulate CO2.

The GOP supported Cap and Trade and won out over the democrats who supported Cap and Tax.

Cap and Trade failed in 2009 because of some well defined reasons.

1. Some republicans who had supported CAP and Trade in 2008 soured on that solution in 2009 because the economic meltdown had been partially caused by Wall Street manipulating markets and they didn't want to give Wall Street another market(Carbon Market) to manipulate.

2.Part of Cap and Trade was creating "pollution credits" that would be traded and to keep the cost down Congress would give away a substantial number of these pollution credits. But all the pollution credits went to benefit coal and the natural gas industry pitched a fit so more republicans soured.

3. The GOP knew Obama was going to "stay out of the way of Congress". They knew that if they killed the more stringent and broad House Cap and Trade bill and in its place proposed a less stringent and narrow piece of legislation in the Senate, Obama would relax his proposals, which he did. What Obama in implementing is not much different from what the Senate proposed in 2010, after the House bill failed.

4. The GOP decided to use the courts to try to delay implementation of any carbon regulation. They filed numerous lawsuits in 2010 and then in Dec 2010, they went back to the court asking the court to delay EPA from implementing until the courts could hear each and every one of the lawsuits. Unfortunately, the court said no. Actually, two courts said no. First the DC Court of Appeals said no then the 5th Circuit Court said no.

[rollo tomasi]

That is just the self-made political process where ultimately the Executive Branch with the help from previous actions of Congress (Decades earlier) allowed wiggle room for the majority in the SCOTUS to rule.

The various Clean Air/Water Acts/other irrational and short-sighted environmental legislation PASSED by Congress are the root of this problem. The EPA went from an advisory creature to the tyrant today because of Congress and agitprop/propaganda which was like shooting fish in a barrel to the Statists because responsibility has become a taboo in today's society.