“Many doubt Obama's ability to legally commit to a binding [international climate] treaty and obligate the United States…
The Obama administration is not bluffing about the ‘command and control’ powers of EPA regulation versus the ‘market-based’ powers of the stalled cap-and-trade bill. They do not wish to extort the passage of legislation with the threat of EPA action. The new international commitments will be based on existing U.S. laws and regulations, and the treaty commitments will then be used to reinforce those same laws and regulations -- even providing the pretext for the urgent need for new ones to enforce the treaty obligations.
Anyone no longer believing Obama's campaign language of ‘fundamentally changing the United States’ underestimates this man. This is a massive power grab of historical and possibly unconstitutional breadth at a breakneck pace. Card check, health care reform, TARP fund misallocations, the stimulus bill pork-barrel spending, cash for clunkers, the $3.4 billion settlement with the Indian tribes, the financial reform bill, additions to the federal work force amidst the hemorrhaging of jobs in the private sector, and now this...we had better wake up and smell what this team is shoveling. And fast.”
However, as noted in this post, the EPA tyranny will face a deluge of legal challenges. And, in the wake of ClimateGate, the EPA tyranny will be very hard to defend in court.
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