APA closer look
reveals that Obama's 'Safe Schools' chief has a radical past as a gay rights
activist, a former drug abuser, and an outspoken critic of religion.
Phil Kerpen
- FOXNews.com
- September 23, 2009
A Secret White House Power Grab Is In Full Swing
It’s one thing for President Obama to surround himself with the advisers he’d
like to have, but it’s another to bestow on them sweeping powers to broker
secret negotiations and push forward vast new regulations that could cost
American families thousands of dollars.
Cap-and-trade energy tax legislation appears stalled, at least for now, in
the U.S. Senate. But that doesn’t mean the cap-and-trade energy tax isn’t
imminent.
Senate Environment Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer hasn’t even introduced
the bill yet; new Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln has
declared the House bill dead on arrival; and there are several other
cross-cutting controversies that divide Democrats on the bill. The Obama
administration is unfazed. They are moving full steam ahead with an even more
costly regulatory scheme in the name of global warming—shoehorning the
regulation of greenhouse gases into the 1970 Clean Air Act, a bill passed
before
anyone had ever thought of global warming and that couldn’t be less suited to
the task.
Driving the push for this massive power grab and circumvention of the elected
branches is a key White House official who avoided Senate confirmation by being
installed not as EPA director, but instead as White House Climate Czar: Carol
Browner.
Long before the Supreme Court ruled in a highly questionable 2007 case,
Massachusetts v. EPA, that the EPA has the legal authority to justify its
proposed 18,000 pages of greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act,
Browner (then EPA director under President Bill Clinton) had her general
counsel, Jonathan Cannon, prepare a now-infamous memorandum arguing—for the
first time—that the EPA possessed such a power. At the time it was dismissed as
a wild-eyed overreach that Congress would never allow. Now it’s happening, and
Browner is right at the center of it.
Mary Nichols, the chair of the California Air
Resources Board, has confirmed that Browner was the lead White House negotiator
in establishing new automobile emissions standards, which for the first time
rely on EPA’s presumed authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the 1970
Clean Air Act. Nichols told The
New York Times that Browner quietly orchestrated private discussions from
the White House with auto industry officials. “We put nothing in writing,
ever,”
Nichols said.
Left unchecked, Browner will move beyond automobiles to EPA’s entire
staggering 18,000-page blueprint for regulating the U.S. economy. It will
eventually regulate everything that moves (light-duty trucks, heavy-duty
trucks,
buses, motorcycles, planes, trains, ships, boats, tractors, mining equipment,
RVs, lawn mowers, fork lifts, and just about every other piece of equipment
that
has a motor) and lots of things that don’t (any building over 100,000 square
feet could be pulled in, along with smaller carbon dioxide emitters, like
restaurants, schools, and hospitals that have commercial kitchens with gas
burners).
It’s bad enough that the EPA is moving ahead with plans to pursue expensive
global warming regulations instead of leaving the complex issue to Congress,
the
branch of government constitutionally tasked with making laws. It’s made much
worse by the fact that the effort is being led not by Lisa Jackson, the duly
confirmed and therefore accountable administrator of the EPA, but by Carol
Browner, the unaccountable, unconfirmed White House Climate Czar.
Browner was made a czar so that her powers could
be more sweeping than they would be in any single official appointment—witness
her cross-agency role in the secret automobile emissions regulations—and to
avoid the scrutiny of Senate confirmation, which would have been difficult for
Browner. Since leaving the Clinton administration she has moved further left,
even becoming one of the 14 members of the “Socialist International Commission
for a Sustainable World Society” on
whose Web site she was listed as a member as recently as January 5, the day
she was named White House Climate Czar.
This Commission pursues a clearly
socialist agenda of centralized control under a regime of "global governance"
that would enforce extreme environmental political correctness on a global
basis. It’s far outside the political mainstream and would have presented
serious problems for centrist Democrats facing a confirmation vote.
It’s one thing for President Obama to surround himself with the advisers he’d
like to have, but it’s another to bestow on them sweeping powers to broker
secret negotiations and push forward vast new regulations that could cost
American families thousands of dollars.
Fortunately, we’ll be able to see this week where members of the U.S. Senate
stand on allowing Carol Browner to direct taxpayer dollars and pursue vast new
regulatory power grabs. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana has introduced an
amendment (SA 2440) to the Department of the Interior appropriations bill that
prohibits any federal funding for Browner’s policy directives. Any senator who
votes against it is voting to support not just Carol Browner, but also her vast
regulatory power grab and the president’s system of unaccountable czars.
Mr. Kerpen is director
of policy for Americans for Prosperity. He can be contacted through
PhilKerpen.com. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. His free two-minute
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FROM AMERICA WITH LOVE.
VIETNAM INVASION & OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA continues 1979-2009.
US PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN INSISTS ON CAMBODIA INDEPENDENCE. 1988
On April 28, 1984, Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, meets U.S. President Ronald
Reagan in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Photo: fmprc.gov.cn)
Photo Gallery>>>
President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, New York . September 26, 1988.
"Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose
freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and
independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops
...."
"Prime Minister Pham Van Dong called on me and, in the presence of Premier Chou
En-lai, swore in the name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that the latter
would always respect the land frontiers as well as all islands belonging to the
"Kingdom of Cambodia" March 1970 by Sihanouk . Wilfred Burchett book "The China
Cambodia Vietnam triangle " P-176-177
UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses
Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a
resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of
Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions.
5. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by
vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese
forces from Cambodia.
As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the
call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since
1988.
Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders.
Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once.
BURY
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