PROGRESSIVES TO ATTEMPT POWER GRAB BEFORE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS

By NWV News writer Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
April 9, 2010
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The so-called Cap & Trade legislation embraced by progressives in the White House, both houses of the U.S. Congress and left-wing environmentalists continues to be a priority of neo-Marxists and power-hungry politicians, according to conservatives and public-interest groups.

"The recent revelations of "junk" science -- even out-and-out fraud -- have failed to silence the steady drone of the "sky-is-falling" crowd. In other words, the progressives wish to change American society based on the recommendations of mendacious and corrupt scientists and advocates," states political strategist Mike Baker.

However, with Cap & Trade and other energy legislation unlikely -- at least for now -- of passing in both houses of the U.S. Congress, the Obama Administration and its supporters are seeking the means to once again bypass the legislative branch. In other words, failing to sign an energy bill, President Barack Obama will give us Cap & Trade by fiat.

In order to have an impact on U.S. energy consumption, carbon emissions and climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to spearhead policies that would never pass muster with many lawmakers on Capitol Hill -- at least until after the November election cycle.

In a landmark decision in 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the EPA possessed the legal authority to regulate so-called greenhouse gases.

As a result of the court bestowing such power on that agency -- and the likelihood that Cap & Trade and similar legislation will not reach President Obama's desk for signing -- EPA officials have declared carbon dioxide and other gases to be a threat to the environment and to the health of Americans. They are currently formulating regulations to restrict emissions from automobiles and trucks, power plants and other sources.

As with the negative aspects of proposed energy legislation, such regulatory action will impose additional costs for doing business in America -- even the world -- especially in these uncertain economic times.

While proponents of government-imposed regulations believe the EPA is justified and welcomed furthering their goal of reducing the production of the heat-trapping gases that certain scientists claim are changing the global climate, others are not so sure that what's being touted as necessary and reasonable are indeed necessary or reasonable.

For example, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) recently took the floor of the Senate and told her colleagues on both sides of the aisle that she is ready and willing to fight an EPA she believes is "contemplating regulations that will destroy jobs while millions of Americans are doing everything they can just to find one."

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