Cuba
Junior Member
The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn't move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a "command-and-control" role over the process in way that could hurt business.
FOXNews.com - Administration Warns of 'Command-and-Control' Regulation Over Emissions
"If you don't pass this legislation, then ... the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area," the official said. "And it is not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it's going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty."
This is a very bold move by the administration. Their decision to circumvent congress altogether and then directly threaten them, and the entire US economy, into the passage of an extremely unpopular policy of government control and regulation of industry, at great cost to the entire system from producer all the way to the consumer, is going to set quite a strong precedent. Can't regulate on a market-based way? Why is that? Not only is this the antithesis of what Obama stands for, at least if you believe what he has been telling us, but it is an intensly dangerous political move for an administration that already has the lowest approval rating of any presidency in recorded history at this stage. They have just alienated a very significant portion of their own party by doing so, and are doing it in a Chicago style strongarm move by making direct threats to the American people: pass cap and tax or we will destroy jobs and hurt the economy.
This door in the face tactic of politics is a massive step backwards, beyond even that of the Bush administration, which had an 86% approval rating at this point in their first term. I have no idea how this will play out or what checks and balances are in place to prevent this move, but this is pretty scary stuff. Political appointees have found a way to completely ignore democratic process. The house voted on cap and tax and passed it, now the administration, without pushing for the Senate to pass their version, has instead insulted the very role of congress in national decision making. Post partisan transparency indeed. We have now moved beyond even partisanship by eliminating both parties altogether and passing extreme liberal regulations without due process.
FOXNews.com - Administration Warns of 'Command-and-Control' Regulation Over Emissions
"If you don't pass this legislation, then ... the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area," the official said. "And it is not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it's going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty."
This is a very bold move by the administration. Their decision to circumvent congress altogether and then directly threaten them, and the entire US economy, into the passage of an extremely unpopular policy of government control and regulation of industry, at great cost to the entire system from producer all the way to the consumer, is going to set quite a strong precedent. Can't regulate on a market-based way? Why is that? Not only is this the antithesis of what Obama stands for, at least if you believe what he has been telling us, but it is an intensly dangerous political move for an administration that already has the lowest approval rating of any presidency in recorded history at this stage. They have just alienated a very significant portion of their own party by doing so, and are doing it in a Chicago style strongarm move by making direct threats to the American people: pass cap and tax or we will destroy jobs and hurt the economy.
This door in the face tactic of politics is a massive step backwards, beyond even that of the Bush administration, which had an 86% approval rating at this point in their first term. I have no idea how this will play out or what checks and balances are in place to prevent this move, but this is pretty scary stuff. Political appointees have found a way to completely ignore democratic process. The house voted on cap and tax and passed it, now the administration, without pushing for the Senate to pass their version, has instead insulted the very role of congress in national decision making. Post partisan transparency indeed. We have now moved beyond even partisanship by eliminating both parties altogether and passing extreme liberal regulations without due process.
