Speaking of political tone-deafness, the Obama EPA is too far left for… at least three Democratic congressmen. CNS News has the story:
Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would amend the Clean Air Act to exclude regulations based on global warming effects, while Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) has a bill that would keep the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases at all unless approved by Congress.
What, letting a bunch of unelected bureaucrats raise taxes and increase regulatory burdens and apply a sticker shock to energy prices during the middle of a jobs-crunching recession wasn’t politically astute?
Huh.
Does this signal a renewed emphasis on the separation and enumeration of Federal powers ?
Is it too soon to hope for true transparency
and some subsidiarity ?
What it signals is a temporary renewed emphasis on the separation and enumeration of Federal powers — until after the election. Then even the Republicans will drift back to their old ways.
We’re going to have to make these smackdowns a biennial, across-the-board habit if we want the lesson to take.
The more small(er)-government minded Democrats have been given a bit of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after the election of Scott Brown and are starting to flex some muscle. Time will tell if it is for real or not.