If the progressive left can’t enslave you with its domestic drones, it’ll find other ways. All ways, in fact.
And yes, I realize the more pragmatic and collegial GOPers don’t like unhelpful language, but the fact is, Obama and the far left cohort he installed throughout the administrative state are attempting a coup — with the goal being to fundamentally transform the US from a representative constitutional republic based around a (severely diluted) free market capitalism into a democratic socialist state in league with other democratic socialist states, all of which will become part of some sort of organized global alliance. Global climate change is but one instance of the ways such a new system will try to gain broad purchase — with “rich” countries asked to support the efforts of poorer countries to rid the air of plant food (and, ultimately, the oxygen that comes from it) through the levying of international taxes.
Global wealth redistribution; equality of outcome. A strong centralized global authority consisting of powerful bureaucrats in a permanent ruling class who will manage the whole system.
Kooky, I know. But then, I’m not the one either attempting to bring it about, or closing my eyes to those attempts because I fear being branded a fringe nutjob. So I’ve got that going for me.
Rep. Doc Hastings, FOXNews:
President Obama is using the ocean as his latest regulatory weapon to impose new bureaucratic restrictions on nearly every sector of our economy. While marketed as a common sense plan for the development and protection of our oceans, it is instead being used to create a massive new bureaucracy that would harm our economy.
Established through Executive Order, Mr. Obama with a simple stroke of a pen took unilateral action to impose a massive top-down federal bureaucracy with broad regulatory control over our oceans, Great Lakes, rivers, tributaries and watersheds.
The Executive Order creates a tangled web of regulatory layers that includes: 10 National Policies; a 27-member National Ocean Council; an 18-member Governance Coordinating Committee; and 9 Regional Planning Bodies. This has led to an additional: 9 National Priority Objectives; 9 Strategic Action Plans; 7 National Goals for Coastal Marine Spatial Planning; and 12 Guiding Principles for Coastal Marine Spatial Planning.
Imposing mandatory ocean zoning could place huge portions of our oceans and coasts off-limits, seriously curtailing recreational activities, commercial fishing, and all types of energy development – including renewable energy such as offshore wind farms.
What’s even more alarming is that the impact of this Executive Order is not limited to just our oceans. It establishes regional planning bodies with the authority to regulate as far inland as necessary. All rivers eventually drain into the ocean, which gives this policy the justification it needs to reach far inland.
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The American Farm Bureau Federation has raised serious concerns, stating that “it could extend to the regulation of every farm and ranch in the United States.”
To make matters worse, taxpayers will be stuck with the considerable financial costs of implementing this Executive Order and the vague and undefined objectives will no doubt be used as fuel for costly frivolous lawsuits to stop or delay federally-permitted activities. Adding to these costs is the lost economic activity and stifled job creation that will result from new restrictions and regulatory uncertainly brought on by the policy.
Over the past year, the Natural Resources Committee has held multiple oversight hearings to investigate the policy, its implementation and potential impacts. However, the Obama administration has refused to answer important questions.
Answering questions often implies you have someone to answer to.
The Democrat-led Senate has already shown itself willing to surrender its constitutional autonomy to President Obama; so what in the world is a John Boehner-led House going to do against such naked power grabs.
Orange tears and empty threats do not a coup prevent.
(h/t TerryH)
I’m sure quashing bureaucratic overreach and technocratic cancer is right at the top of Mitt’s to-do list.
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Sorry. I surrendered to a moment of fancy, there.
Mitt’s been showing spunk lately. He may surprise us.
In a good way.
Mitt is no John McCain; he wants to win. What he does when he wins is still open to question. I hope for the best but expect the worst.
Always a good plan, George.
Beautiful post, which I have linked here: http://bobagard.blogspot.com/2012/06/orange-tears-and-empty-threats-do-not.html
You’re kidding right? You don’t really think the party that gave us the EPA and the DHS has sincere objections to this? Ha.
I’ll just ask the question; do you imagine, once this new powerful agency is begun, Willard Romney will kill it? Again, Ha.
RUSH: Folks, I must be honest with you. I hear this all the time from people about Romney, and I know him and I’ve talked to him. He came here and he sat down and he told me what his plan was, and it sounded like anything you and I would say. He even said to me, “If I accomplish everything I want to do, I may only be a one-term president.” I said, “What do you mean?” “Because I am gonna so fix this. It’s gonna be dramatic. We’ve gotta reverse this. We gotta stop this. Our children’s future is at stake here, and I’m gonna stop the direction that we’re headed, and if they throw me out after four years, fine and dandy.”
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“Beautiful post, which I have linked here…”
Bob,
Welcome to the Outlaw family!
One correction though; at your site you misidentified the author of this post.
It was Jeff Goldstein (the site owner)
(I tried to post this at your site but it’s either stuck in moderation or I failed to type in the prove your not a robot letters correctly+
OK, Jeff, I posed this question last weekend: What, exactly, can the Congress do? The single weapon it really has is impeachment, and as long as 34 Senators won’t confirm, we’re back to where we were with Lincoln: the President can ignore even Supreme Court rulings, and the power of the purse has no real clout since Congress can’t shut off the printing press and the check-writing machines.
What means within the law are left? People need to realize in the marrow of their bones that we’re getting down to the last box, the cartridge box.
To quote Nick Fury, “What are you prepared to do?”
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