Posted on 02/20/2024 6:55:26 AM PST by MtnClimber
The “resistance” is at it again.
President Joe Biden’s allies are getting antsy about his administration’s pileup of unfinished environmental rules — especially with the threat that a second Trump presidency could undo them all.
Biden’s agencies are facing a deadline this spring to finish some of their most important regulations to ensure that a Republican Congress and White House can’t erase them next year, including a crackdown on power plants’ climate pollution, protections for endangered species and a bid to protect federal employees from politically motivated firings.
That last one is an understandable priority for federal bureaucrats and appointees worried that they’ll be fired.
This obviously raises the question of who actually runs the federal government, but if you still don’t know the answer to that, try running for office and actually passing a law. The folks who actually run things are busy insulating themselves from being subjected to the rigors of democratic change in the name of protecting democracy from the people who vote for things that they shouldn’t.
The scramble to finish the regulations is crucial to determining how much of Biden’s ambitious legacy may survive past the November election, as the two likely nominees promote sharply contrasting views on climate change, green energy and the power of federal agencies.
The Biden administration has promised action on a lot of fronts, and how soon it rolls those rules out could determine how easy they are for a future administration to unravel. Policy insiders and Biden administration allies are urging agencies’ rule writers to keep their eye on the clock.
The polite fiction is that the feds are supposed to write rules objectively and impartially. This is a press release stating that the opposite is true and that the rules are being rushed out for purely partisan reasons.
Considering that this was the exact claim used to undermine the Trump administration’s executive orders and other decisions in court, including those that involved setting aside executive orders and other debris from the Obama administration which had somehow acquired the force of law by the mere fact that Obama wanted them done, it ought to be an important argument used when challenging some of these same rules in court.
On the table is Biden’s car ban.
EPA rule writers are hustling behind the scenes to wrap up work on a suite of big Biden regulations on climate, water and chemicals this year…
Closely watched climate rules, such as revamped tailpipe pollution limits for cars and trucks, are expected in March as well. Those rules, under review at the White House, could lead to electric vehicles making up two-thirds of car and light truck sales as soon as 2032, the EPA has estimated.
Nah, they won’t. It’ll just mean that the majority of Americans won’t be able to afford to buy new cars.
But the real meat of it is the bureaucratic resistance protecting itself from the consequences of its coup.
Last year, the Office of Personnel Management proposed stronger guardrails for the civil service. The regulation says career employees keep their civil service protections unless they voluntarily accept a political appointee job and adds requirements when reclassifying career positions as political appointments.
The rule could serve as a vital defense for federal employees if Trump wins in November.
That allows Dems to protect the activists they’ve embedded into the federal government and allow them to continue undermining America from within.
Trump will have to come up with a plan to swiftly take out the activist judges.
Daniel Greenfield ping
Government versus the American people.
Again.
Dept. of Ed and EPA can be shuttered with only positive impacts to the economy.
This should be considered Treason.
Globalism vs Americanism
Beautifully stated!
Talk about insurrection........
Nothing like sabotaging the duly elected president simply because you don’t approve of him. They simply DO. NOT. CARE. about the will of the people.
They will decide for us what we want so just shut up and take it peons......
Should be?
It most certainly is.
Now do you see why Draining the Swamp is the only issue of 2024?
This is not new. Many times in history, all over the world, government has configured itself to protect itself as top priority. Think of all the stories you have read of other country leaders facing such a thing. Like Argentina right now.
Right wing and left wing issues are insignificant when facing a Swamp. Frankly the only viable approach is to move agencies to small cities in the interior of America. People will not move. The Swamp gets drained.
This tells me that the party of big government is not confident about their ability to cheat their way over the finish line as they did in 2020.
Especially Engoron.
I nominate that the "Best Sentence of 2024"!
"Those rules, under review at the White House, could lead to electric vehicles making up two-thirds of car and light truck sales as soon as 2032, the EPA has estimated."
And there will be NO electrical power generation, transmission, distribution, or charging stations to meet the charging needs of those millions of EVs. Your EV will sit in your driveway doing nothing.
This total make-over of the US private vehicle transportation system would have ZERO effect on global CO2. Never mind that CO2 has NOTHING to do with purported climate change.
If only we had an opposition party that could effectively drive a stake through the heart of the Big Con.
At minimum, it’s a real Insurrection, not a protest being labeled as such.
Swamp bump for later......
BTTT
Cut the Executive budget by 1/3 for starters, this will fix many problems including the possible riddance of a few agencies. Congress is the ultimate villain here as they spend the money and has been so for decades, uniparty/deep state and all that.
And oh, that $40,000,000,000,000 debt we will have before the end of the decade.
I had a dream that Trump wins and the republicans take control of both the Senate and the House and re-write legislation to overturn any such rules.
But then I woke up.
“...the threat that a second Trump presidency could undo them all.”
What other HOPE do we have? Seriously. I’m asking!
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