Look who’s opposing EPA’s war on carbon now
The Obama administration’s eco-crats — who have had free reign in their war on carbon — are now getting push back from…Democrats.
It’s about time:
Three House Democrats are now pushing legislation that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating carbon emissions—a decision the agency announced in December — without express permission from the Congress.
Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would amend the Clean Air Act to exclude regulations based on global warming effects, while Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) has a bill that would keep the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases at all unless approved by Congress.
In April 2009 the EPA proposed an “endangerment finding” for greenhouse gases, claiming that they “endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations.” An endangerment finding is necessary to regulate emissions under the Clean Air Act. On Dec. 7, the EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson officially signed the finding, opening the way to regulate emissions of gases like carbon dioxide and methane.
By complying with the rules of the Clean Air Act, the EPA claims it can begin regulating things directly, such as automobiles, without any new law from Congress. But some Democrats, contrary to the administration’s views of the issue, are not satisfied with the EPA’s new regulatory direction.
“I’m proud to help sponsor this bill because if Congress doesn’t do something soon, the EPA is going to cram these regulations through all on their own,” Rep. Peterson said in a statement.
Gee, maybe they’ll start waking up to all the radical ClimateGate deniers and to corruptocrat enviro-czar Carol Browner soon.
Slow learners are better than no-learners.
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Funny they are stepping forward now. The Tea Party has changes everything.
The only reason the Democrats are doing this is because they see their free ride in Congress coming to an end so they will do anything to look like they really care. Do you honestly think that if President Empty suit was 70% popular and unemployment was 5% etc etc – they would even stop to bat an eyelash?
This is what happens when congress delegates the creation of force-of-law regulations to a government agency … the congress has to scramble to take back the very powers they should have never delegated in the first place.
What we need now is the “Hot Air Expiration Rights Act of 2010″ It’s all about the plants, they simply crave our CO2.
My houseplants will be so pleased to learn from our esteemed Congress that the carbon dioxide they live on is really not a pollutant.
I know they were concerned.
Do note the locations of those three. Somehow, I think it’s more about
protecting the districtspreading the pain to the coasts.It’s been a while since I did this here, but that’s the Comment of the Day™.
FIFY
and…
hmm… Sounds a little like this congress / administration trying to cram other things through “all on their own,” no?? Irony anyone?
Do we need the EPA? OK, I guess so, but the one time I asked for assistance from them they never returned my calls.
I was amazed when the head of the obama EPA threatened the Congress if Tax and Cap was not passed. When the bureaucracy is arrogant enough to do this, then there is really no reason to vote as the bureaucracy will ignore the will of the people as expressed in elections.
Finally, a couple of Democrats realize that they are being had here and fighting back. I doubt that Pelosi, Reid and the radical rascals will support this but they ought to realize that this cannot stand in a representative democratic republic.
Which is a great way to have your department defunded by the Congress.
Can we get Liberalism declared a public health threat?
I think that would fall under the NIH.
Maybe, but I am more inclined to believe learning delayed is learning denied.
Unfortunately, the Catholic Church will defund the pope before Congress defunds the EPA.
Sure Ms. Malkin. Perhaps the same day you’ll see Nancy Pelosi in line to board a Southwest Airlines flight home. Maybe see Rahm Emmanuel at the local library reading to children from a non-politicized childrens book, making little baa’s and meows like the animals in the book. Or maybe dingy Harry Reid throwing a welcome party for MA Senator Brown, and toasting to Brown’s success.
Since the symptoms are very similar to Mad Cow Disease you might be able to get that done.
If algore and the other libtards (oops, can I say “libtards” now?) really believed this nonsense they would volunteer to stop exhaling on alternate days. When I see them agree to that I will know they are serious.
Hopefully this is just the beginning of the socialist implosion. I hope Europe wakes up too but I’m not holding my breath.
It’s self preservation. The government should not be allowed to regulate our breathing.
Aren’t you glad that Congressmen Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) now support your right to exhale as often as you like and not be fined for releasing a harmful pollutant into the atmosphere?
Is this a great country to live in or what?
While Obama is busy on his endless “it’s not my fault” tour, his own party is busy reining in his run-amok tsar government. Very soon, Obama is going to be a party of one, “The One”, actually.
I don’t know that this means there is such a beast as a “moderate democrat” but it does appear there is such a thing as “frightened democrat.”
A good thought. Regulating liberal emmissions from Washington would significantly reduce the level of hot air and methane gas in the atmosphere. This alone may save the polar bears.
Slightly off topic:
Waiting for the outrage from the left in 3..2…1
Well I think the pendulum of public support and opinion is swinging back – and if I were a Democrat, I’d worry that it looks like a wrecking ball.
Try libdorks instead.
The Society for the Preservation of Trees also is against the EPA’s mandate.
If the EPA mandate goes through, 25-50% of Earth’s trees will die by 2100, and this is resulting in a catastrophic loss of oxygen in our atmosphere, which is a critical component to human life.
Britain spies on its own people (yet another reason Scotland wants to build another wall!); France is the home of the grubby trade unions who strike whenever they want and tie the country in knots; Germany is the home of the ‘Green Party’ and were very national socialist before 1945; Norway, Finland, and Sweden are all government support womb to tomb; Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands are fighting an uphill battle but are slowly sinking into Socialism (if not complete political correctness). Italy and Greece are semi-socialist.
Our hope lies with the former Soviet satellites:Poland, Czech Republic, and the other countries who lived first hand under Soviet Socialst rule for many years.
He’s probably just angry that the public is catching on that the United Nations IPCC report is based on material gathered from a couple Dr. Seuss books, some science fiction comics and a sixth graders science project.
I would be willing to bet that sixth grade science projects have more credibility in their research than the IPCC.
This shows that Scott Brown’s victory has awakened at least some of the donks on the hill. They would still be planning to shove this idea up our (donkeys) if he had lost.
Bammy is being dumped on left, right, and center (literally).
I still say come November get ‘em out of D.C.
Speaking of “global warming”, I hope Michelle got home before this blizzard in the middle Atlantic.
This bill is as phoney as a $3 Federal Reserve note. Skelton and Peterson voted FOR cap-and-tax. Now they have a show bill, for CYA time on the hustings.
Sorry, fellas. You need gone.
Your silly bill is DOA in Pelosi’s House, period, and you know it. You’re doing Survival Politics, same as Blanche Lincoln. Enough is enough. Bye.
I would be surprised if Pelosi allows this to reach the floor. It would put every Democrat Congressperson facing re-election on the record regarding job-killing (or earth-saving) carbon limits. And making their position on vital issues clear just before an election is the last thing a Democrat wants to do.
*Don’t be fooled, as they all must go; We must maintain a scorched earth mentality for the primaries and in November; The Democratic Party is the “Death to America” party, and every single one of them must be targeted for removal from office, as well as all their RINO enablers; Now is not the time to ease off on the gas!
*I hear at the Tea Party Convention where they have decided to focus on selective races across the country; This is foolish; They need a clearinghouse type website showing all races, including the governors races, with all the pertinent content so people can make informed decisions on whom to support; There are only a few “keepers” in D.C., and WE need to fire the rest of them!
bjc,
I agree that “THEY ALL NEED TO GO.”
But the TEA Party Movement may find itself without the organization and resources to address every single race this year.
Targeting 20 or 40 races where the TEA Party Movement has the power to move events is better than overreaching. If the TEA Party Movement can put 20 to 40 real conservatives in the House and Senate in one election that will send tremors throughout the “establishment” and offer the chance to have an even larger impact in 2012. 2010 offers the TEA Part Movement a chance to demonstrate effectiveness. 2012 offers a chance to demonstrate staying power.
20 to 40 seats in Congress is sufficient to stop the Marxists now. Then conservatives can use that new strength to roll back all this nonsense in 2012.
WE82: I’m all about overwhelming force, take no prisoners; After all, there are dissatisfied constituents all across the country(Mass.), and as likely voters, they may just need some impetus to get behind a certain candidate, and with their vote alone, will have contributed to the cause.
*And for me, it is just as important to sideline the RINO’s in the primaries; It will tell me a whole lot about the Tea Party movement in how they stand in the McCain/Hayward tussle; That race should be Job 1 for the movement; It will be for me.
They should change the name of their party to Hypocrats. None of them ever practiced environmentalism like the world was going to end tomorrow. Now all of a sudden it is not that important to them. UGH!!!!It is true that the CO2 that they breath out is more deadly than mine, however. They should stop doing it!
bjc: I agree that electing conservatives is job 1. This will certainly require getting rid of RINOs. And the Arizona seat should be a major target. If the TPM can unseat a Kennedy-designate and knock off Mr. RINO in the Senate then every other seat in the nation is in play. But maybe the TPM just isn’t ready to go nation-wide at this point.
I’ll take 20 to 40 conservative victories this year…
The great thing about Obama’s EPA Administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, is that not only does she do the bidding of radical environmentalists, but she is a race hustler, too!
Bumper sticker award:
This whole global warming movement is nothing more than a massive power and money grab put on by the evil United Nations…the uber-liberal bastion of totalitarian rule of the masses…also known as…
World Government
WE82: Here in Tennessee alone we will probably elect a conservative GOP governor, and replace 3 out of 5 Democrat Reps. with conservative GOP candidates; Translated to the entire country, and I see an approx. gain of 60 seats in the House and 12 in the Senate; I say get results, don’t give excuses!
*Just look at the positive uptick of having a Marco Rubio in the Senate versus a Mel Martinez; You go from an advocacy pimp for illegal alien amnesty to someone who fully understands the difference between someone knocking on your front door and someone breaking in through your back window!; That’s gotta have McCain thinking it’s time to settle down at the ranch!
Wow Im inspired! Gotta love when Dems take a principled stand based upon polls, and election upsets. Stand up people, all.
bjc: The more conservatives, the faster the better. Rubio will be another big victory. I am going to donate to JD Hayworth. It is time to wish McCain a fond retirement. I don’t set policy for the TEA Party Movement but I am pretty grateful for everything they do.
It will be an interesting year.
I’m glad I moved out of the D.C. area to SE Virginia back in 2008. Global warming is making a mess of the place today; might be worse than the Knickerbocker storm of ’22.
I have almost two feet of global warming surrounding my house at this very moment. And it is still coming down
I do not trust the EPA. They are radicals bent on all us living in caves and throwing rocks at each other.
But, do not worry, the social elites will come down from their mansions to ensure that no one has a rock advantage. They will execute rock hoarders and outlaw the manufacturer of new rocks due to environmental concerns.
I do not trust the EPA anymore than I trust Consumer Reports http://wp.me/pLGBN-33
Have a great day everyone, if you pass my house and see a snowman, its me
Arrest algore and charge him and the entire carbon tax crowd with conspiracy
These would-be Carbon Barons are nothing more than mob bosses running a numbers racket
Didn’t I hear this morning Obama jokingly blame Bush for all the snow in Washington DC. Will they ever learn? I really believe that this bunch will never learn, they are now trying to keep their jobs. Re-elect them and see which way they will jump.
*Our esteemed hostess seems eerily silent today; Could it be that she has a speaking engagement at the Tea Party Convention tonight?
I hope she made it home. I hear they have 27 inches of “global warming” in her area. It could be her power is out.
Gray: I believe Michelle now resides west of the Mississippi, so that can’t be the problem.
Oh really? Last I heard she was living outside D.C., around Columbia. I don’t keep up with the news.
Gray: It’s just so quiet on this sight today as to be spooky; And it’s not even Superbowl Sunday yet!
Here in DC we were deluged with 28 inches of snow in a monster storm, not due to global warming or carbon dioxide. That’s two top ten storms in the same winter in DC; it’s the curse of ALgore.
True, bjc. Very quiet. I hope MM is spending time with her family. I lived in Fairfax County, until 5/08. Glad I’m not there today. Checking the traffic cams, the roads there look plowed. More snow for them on Tuesday, I hear. Down in SE Virginia, we had lots of rain and about an inch of snow. The way I like it.
Gray: I’m with you on the warmer temps, and less snow, as it is here in Tennessee; I’m originally from Canada, and cold weather is their #1 export.
*P-BO cancelled a future manned space mission to the moon, but in his quest to find the root cause for global warming, will announce shortly the first manned mission to the sun; When asked about the inherent dangers, he said, “not to worry, we will send them at night”; Typical Harvard education!
Just take him outside and point to the moon during the crescent. Tell him part of the moon is missing. That should reverse his cancellation; demanding an immediate mission to find out what happened. Anyway, I’m actually a New Englander (embarrassment showing…Mass. and Vermont). I left in time before the left epidemic started.
Had the chance to tour your lovely state back in 2007. Actually, it was a civil war tour (wife and I are history buffs). Had a great time. People are nice.
*Finished watching Sarah Palin speak at the Tea Party Convention; She did quite well all in all, and had some nice zingers for P-BO and his Communist Clown Cluster; The Minor League Media should have a field day with it tomorrow.
*I’m hoping that today P-BO had the common sense that God gave a grapefruit to look out his window there in D.C., get Spotted Owl Bore on the phone, and ask him, “heh rectal orafice, who dumped this 30″ of settled science on my front lawn?
watched Gov. Palin myself, she was good as always. The Tea Party crowd loved her, rightfully so, but she has me confused with her campaigning for McAmnesty, Mr. crap and tax himself…unless of course she agrees with his positions on those subjects, which not what you would consider conservative.
I understand her need to be loyal and thankful to McShame for bringing her into the public eye, but I would think there has to be a way of thanking him rather than campaigning for his Maverick (RINO) ways. Typical, it appears Juan has seen the light now he’s running for re-election this year.
McCain is not the only RINO she says she’ll be campaigning for either, has to make you wonder. I’m sure there is someone that frequents this site that can explain this to me…I’d appreciate it. I like the Gov. a lot, but her campaigning for RINO’s has me confused.
Well, so much for representative government. This is the only way the liberal/socialist/progressive agenda can to through.
Wasn’t it Clintonista Paul Begala who said, “stroke of the pen, law of the land, cool”? I guess that still applies in the Hope’n'Change administration. Fundamentally transforming America doncha know.
It looks like everyone is having a very busy weekend!! Not too busy to watch the Super Bowl, I trust. Even tho my Vikings aren’t in it, I love football and will be enjoying the game. It is a toss-up (pardon the pun) as to who I will cheer for. My youngest daughter went to school (Purdue) with Drew Brees and she knows him fairly well…so I lean toward the Saints. Drew is a classy guy, but then, so is Payton Manning. So is Brett Favre!!
Regarding the subject of this thread…We plan to expel a LOT of CO2 while yelling tonight…and it will contain the refreshing aroma of chili and salsa!
When will they announce the same findings regarding the public debt?
Good idea. Think we’ll get out the crockpot and cook up some. Got all the fixings already. Ours will be the “con carne” kind, though. Some garlic bread made to make it nice. Wife loves popcorn so we’ll have a big bowl of that too, I’m sure.
My husband and I are watching our weight…yes, even during the Super Bowl!! So I am making turkey chili. I add a bit of beef boullion to fool the taste buds and with all the seasonings, you can’t tell the difference! I use lots of beans because I am in Weight Watchers and the fiber decreases the point count. Turkey, onions, kidney beans, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, celery, green pepper if I have any on hand. Seasonings are chili powder (LOTS), bay leaf, a pinch of allspice, cajun spice, garlic salt, S&P and a big squeeze of fresh lemon juice. I always add the spices while I am browning the meat and let them really cook into the meat. It adds a depth of flavor. Paul Prudehomme (sp) showed me that trick years ago and it makes a difference. It really is yummy!
Happyscrapper, I’m married to an Indonesian. In their culture, it is customary to make sure the husband is a little overweight to show “prosperity”. It’s been a running battle between us for 10 years.
I’m trying to stay trim, and the wife wants me with a bit of a potbelly. Food is very important to their society.
Hey Gray…looks like you and I are the only ones doing any writing this a.m.!! As for the husband being overweight, no worries in our household on that score. My husband will probably always be a little overweight, and that is not so bad! I, on the other hand, HATE being fat and constantly struggle! UP and down, mostly UP. But right now, I seem to be winning the battle. Indonesian food sounds so yummy…is that using a lot of curry, or am I thinking of just India? Sorry for my ignorance!!
Curry and lots of spices. The food is “hot”, but is very good. Whenever we go to an Indonesian party, I’m always asked if I can tolerate the spicy food. “Bring it on”. Chicken is the best, for me.
MMMMMM! I love curry. But my favorite spicy food is Mexican, with lots of cilantro, etc. My son-in law is 1/4 Mexican and his family has a secret salsa recipe that is amazing! It has been passed down in the family for generations. Seriously, they guard that recipe with their lives. That’s o.k. as long as they keep bringing it to our family gatherings!
I have to leave now…late for church!!
Peruvian friends introduced me to the delights of cilantro. It was especially good with their beef. I passed on their fish though, except shrimp.