I must admit, it was a brilliant move for Barack Obama to appoint “centrists” to his cabinet early and with much fanfare. Some would argue the point that they really aren’t centrists, but why bother. We’ll find out soon enough how moderate they really are.
But there’s nary a soul who can make a convincing argument that his energy team is anything but a bunch of left wing, tree hugging, economy killing ideologues. The Wall Street Journal predicts big carbon taxes in the midst of a depression.
After the selection of a largely centrist economic team, liberals have been asking when President-elect Obama would give them a seat at the table. Well, now we know, and Americans should strap themselves in. Mr. Obama is stocking his energy shop with the greenest of greens who want to move fast on a very aggressive climate agenda. Here come the carbon busters.
These folks mean business!
The Obama Administration is “sitting on some authority,” Ms. Browner warned at the Center for American Progress recently. She says the White House is prepared to use that power “in the event that perhaps there can’t be some sort of agreement reached with Congress on how to move legislation.” In other words, Ms. Browner will use the threat of brute regulatory force as a political bludgeon if Capitol Hill declines to inflict some carbon tax on voters in the midst of a recession.
Not only will this incur colossal economic costs, but it bypasses normal democratic debate. In that sense it’s suggestive of the radicalism of Mr. Obama’s climate agenda. When Mr. Obama said during the campaign that he favored “nothing less than the complete transformation of our economy” in the name of global warming, we figured he couldn’t mean something so utopian. Maybe he does. Read full story.
The Blagojevich scandal couldn’t have happened for Obama at a better time. It takes attention away from his plans to put the final nail in the coffin of the American economy in the name of saving the planet.
Thank you, Lonely Conservative —
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