I could rake
Obama’s “Climate Change” speech over the coals (No pun intended.) for its
questionable science and destructive economics. If Obama gets his way, he’ll be hurting our economy while
China cheerfully keeps polluting at full tilt. A lot of good that would do.
But what may
be even worse about the speech is his utter disregard for the consent of the
governed. If Obama wants all these
so-called green policies, which will be red for the economy, then let him
campaign on them before an election and work with Congress to pass them.
Instead, he
threatens to go close to full tyrant, using executive orders and his pet EPA to
slow down and even shut down much of the economy (e. g. power plants and the
coal industry) for the sake of somehow stopping climate change. The Wall Street Journal puts it well:
Most striking about this Obama legacy project is its contempt
for democratic consent. Congress has consistently rejected an Obama-style
"comprehensive" anticarbon energy plan. That was true even when
Democrats ran the Senate with a filibuster-proof majority in 2009-2010 and
killed his cap-and-trade energy bill. The only legislative justification for
Mr. Obama's new plan is an abusive interpretation of the Clean Air Act, which
was last revised in 1990 and never mentions carbon as a pollutant.
So instead Mr. Obama will impose these inherently political
policy choices via unaccountable bureaucracies, with little or no debate. Mr.
Obama might have at least announced his war on carbon before the election and
let voters have a say. Instead he posed as the John the Baptist of fossil fuels
in locales such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia—taking credit for the shale
fracking boom he had nothing to do with and running ads attacking Mitt Romney
as anticoal.
Now safely re-elected, Mr. Obama figures he can do what he
pleases. The Americans who will be harmed will have to console themselves with
99 weeks of jobless benefits, food stamps and ObamaCare.
1 comment:
Mr. Obama stated that he wanted to make fundamental changes to the United States. His fundamental changes are to destroy the United states as he supports his biological fathers view that we are the #1 Neo-Colonial power that his biological father despised.
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