Government bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency are planning to step well beyond the confines of the law to institute their own version of cap-and-trade. This could cripple our economy and lead to a rise in energy prices at a time when Obama's policies are already wreaking havoc.
The EPA's plan to supersede Congressional oversight is unconstitutional and undemocratic. Luckily, Republicans in Congress are beginning to take action, and even some Democrats are saying the EPA has gone too far.
The Wall Street Journal explains this morning:
But the real presumption is that an unaccountable bureaucracy should use its self-assigned powers to make inherently political choices that will be a colossal drag on economic growth.
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Whatever [EPA Administrator Lisa] Jackson's appeals to "science," as if democracy doesn't matter, her conception of an autonomous regulatory state should offend any elected politician. The harm the EPA is inflicting is bad enough, but let's start with such basics as the rule of law and representative government.
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