Unable to convince a Democratic-controlled Congress to go along with this radical scheme, Obama is now trying to impose it arbitrarily — a plan which will raise energy costs on consumers, kill hundreds of thousands of jobs and deprive the American economy of nearly $1.5 trillion worth of income, according to one estimate.

Then there’s the dirty little secret of “pricing coal” when it comes to domestic emissions — namely its utter failure to make a dent in the global atmospheric situation. According to the latest data from the International Energy Agency, America led the world in reducing carbon emissions a year ago — lowering our output by a total of 200 megatons. However carbon emissions soared globally by more than 400 megatons in spite of these efforts — reaching a new all-time high.

Also, it’s worth noting government “green initiatives” did not create America’s declining emissions levels: Good old-fashioned free market economics did that. Attacking coal on the other hand will have unmistakably adverse market affects — most notably increased natural gas prices for consumers.

“The primary reason for the U.S. emissions decline is the result of new technologies from the fossil fuel industry that are leading to cheap coal being displaced by even cheaper natural gas for the generation of electricity,” writes Paul C. Kanppenberger of the Cato Institute.

In other words Obama is circumventing Congress to advance economically crippling new regulations that won’t even accomplish his stated objectives. And even if Obama’s scheme were constitutional — or the fuzzy science of climate change valid — America’s economy cannot afford the incredibly steep price he is asking us to pay.

Spot on right up until the end when Bill Wilson, former President of Americans for Limited Goverment, makes the very mistake (albeit he hedges, which is at least a start, and suggests to me he is closer to my wavelength that he will candidly let on) that continues to cripple conservatives:  Obama is circumventing Congress to advance an ideology that, while not specifically stated, is nevertheless clear enough, his stated objectives being nothing more than cover to promote his actual objectives, which involve destroying the middle class and crippling the private sector by raising the price of fuel, electricity, clothing, food, etc. And in this he is performing remarkably well.

Obama — like most narcissists who gravitate toward leading socialist Utopian revolutions — is a would-be aristocrat. All his actions, from his disdain for his own country to his notice and concentration on “enemies” who don’t back his Marxist, racialist redistributive schemes and his “field-leveling” foreign policy, prove just that.

Marxists, you’ll notice — or if you prefer, communists who take control of government — never let the “ruling elite” melt away so that the masses can rule themselves.  Instead, they always keep in place the brilliant, theoretically-driven and self-styled “visionary” leaders whose role it is to “nudge,” to “engineer,” to scold, to punish, to manipulate, and to fundamentally transform.

That is, they leave in place a liberal fascist government that they control, working of necessity with big business to quell competition and merge government with commerce, with themselves as the natural-born overseers.

A middle class, the bourgeois, the nouveau riche — particularly those whose wealth is made toiling in industry in a capitalist system and not from being elevated to political giant or academic elite planner — is eminently distasteful to faculty lounge poseurs like Obama and many on the left within the progressive movement.

They enjoy what they believe to be the natural separation of the cultured elite from the dirt-caked worker and entrepreneur, and the prefer a kind of patronage system that maintains a ruling aristocracy.

And of course, many in the GOP share this idea — else we wouldn’t know be watching as the GOP establishment prepares to push upon us yet another Bush — even while the Democrats seem poised to push on us another Clinton.

The way to stop this is to take away the centralized control the last 100 years of progressive incrementalism has installed atop our republic.  And that begins with we the people simply refusing to comply.