Peter Moirci writes in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
President Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan won’t do much to curb global warming, but it will please liberals who delight in extending government control over large segments of the economy.
The president argues the overwhelming majority of scientists, including some early skeptics, agree the planet is warming and greenhouse gas emissions are the primary culprit. As CO2 composes 80 percent of those gases, Obama targets coal-fired electric utilities and opportunities to reduce fuel use in heavy transportation.
The president proposes reducing U.S. emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels through strict EPA regulation and oversight, when the market forces are already accomplishing that goal without imposing a command and control regime…
The president wants the new EPA standards for power plants finalized by June 2015 and implemented in 2016. This hasty time table is necessary to lock in a new regime before its wisdom is debunked and another round of negotiations with China, India and others fail.
Global warming will go unmitigated, and U.S. economic growth and jobs creation will be further harmed; however, the president’s desired legacy will be served. As with Obamacare, the scope of command and control over the private economy will be extended.
Once he breaks those regulatory eggs, they stay broken. Do you really believe the Republicans have the guts to stand up to the enviro crowd now or later and try to undo this mess?
No. The worst president in the history of the Universe
What legacy? A legacy of being the worst president on US history?