MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

4th branch of government

• Posted by Chris on July 21st, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Climate change, General, John McCain, Politics, SCOTUS    

So, are y’all aware of the black hole of economic death that we’re screaming towards? Forget the crazies in the media. They’re bad, but they can only mold the minds of weak and stupid people. Yeah, I know, it’s working. There are a lot of Barack supporters. But they can be made smarter and they will leave the Obama camp and the media will have failed. Congress problems? Nothing we can’t and haven’t taken care of previously. Remember 1994? 2006? Congress we can handle when we get mad enough. No, our problem is with uncontrolled, unaccountable government agencies sticking us with mandates and regulations that will kill our economy. Today’s problem child is our very own EPA. I call it our own, because it was approved by Nixon. So, for better or worse, the EPA is a “pandering republican looking for love from the left” caused issue.

About 18 months ago in Mass vs. EPA the SCOTUS said in a 5-4 decision that the EPA must use the 1970 clean air act to regulate greenhouse gases, siding with lefty states, the Sierra Club and other lunatic enviro-wackos. I do want to be clear here. The EPA lost. The (Bush appointed) head of the EPA declined to regulate carbon dioxide under the clean air act. The SCOTUS basically said they had to. The EPA went to work and came back with a 200 plus page blueprint containing 33 programs to regulate every aspect of the economy. Tractors, cars, lawn mowers, RV’s, boats, planes could be subject to permitting from the EPA. Think about that. Do you need a tractor? You will have to fill out a form and send it (with a nice check too) and hope you get a permit. Want a boat? Fill out this form and send in your dough and hope that the person who gets your application has had a decent day. Run a landscape company? Well, get ready for a dozen or so permits for everything: Your mowers, your cars, your weed eaters, chainsaws. Use natural gas in your company like a restaurant? Or someone who sells and installs water heaters or gas furnaces? If you go over some vaguely defined threshold that can be redefined on an EPA decree, you’ll have to beg for your permits.

Here’s the worst part: the vagueness of it. If you own a company and want to expand to a bigger place and it’s over 100k sq ft (a 10 story 100×100 building) well, you have to have installed “appropriate carbon control technology” before you can get the permits. What is appropriate carbon controlling technology? Well, there is no definition and no guarantee that such technology even exists. The EPA wouldn’t define it in the package. They’ll know it when they see it and if they don’t see it, you can’t get the building. It will be possible to get an EPA person who basically strings you along because you don’t have the right technology for your “widget” factory when in reality the person just doesn’t know what it is.

The US Chamber of Commerce looked at it and found that over 1 million new companies (small businesses) that have never had anything to do with the feds other than taxes would now be regulated by the EPA. Welcome to Al Gore’s utopia.

All of this will be ours without a congressional vote or a presidential decree. The EPA will say it must be, and that’s the way it is. It is entirely possible that the EPA, without congress even voting on it, could enforce it’s own version of Kyoto. You remember that one, right? The pact that the senate voted down 98-0 or something like that. Doubt it? Well, look the fun in DC a couple weeks ago. The Warner-Lieberman bill had a cap and trade system in it and did other things to combat the myth of climate change and was voted down overwhelmingly. Blown out of the water in bipartisan fashion. Right after, the EPA came out with it’s own cap and trade system that it said it was going to mandate and enforce going so far as to say it didn’t need permission from congress because it interprets the 1970 clean air act as allowing it. Think on that one for a while. If it doesn’t need congressional approval to enforce certain levels of carbon output, who can stop it from changing the levels? They already have changed the levels for ozone measurements and mandates. When the air quality improved and started resulting in fewer red days, they lowered the standard to get more. On a whim. New standards. Right now it’s run by pseudo business friendly Bush appointees. If Barack gets in, he will bring in an Al Gore wannabe to run the place. Still think an EPA mandated Kyoto is out of the question?

The EPA is not bad now, but when the next liberal gets in, we’re screwed. They will use this ruling to set the EPA above the congress. We need to take this back and the way to do it is through the SCOTUS. One SCOTUS nominee will change everything. One of the majority of Kennedy, Stevens, Breyer, Souter or Ginsburg leaving and being replaced with a thinking conservative would roll this ruling back. What do you think Barack will appoint to the court when one leaves? McCain may be a risk, yes, but Obama is a certainty. He will put as many Ginsburgs on the court as possible. As government claims more and more of our life, every thing that we can do to stop them needs to be done. At this moment, that is the defeat of Obama. Obama’s defeat is a must.