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...In fact, in the entire 26-paragraph article, only two paragraphs speak at all about the opposition to such an approach. The rest almost fawningly describe the effort in glowing, even heroic tones. It’s quite the piece of propaganda, and I’m certain the Obama administration will bless the NYT with even more scoops like this in the future. It’s far below Broder’s usual standard.

Interestingly, the Most Transparent and Accountable Administration in World History will not ask Congress to pass these new regulations. Getting the People’s Branch involved apparently is too time-consuming and tiresome. Instead, the EPA will just start issuing regulations, and will ask us to trust them to be reasonable. No, I’m not kidding...

The EPA scenario — MasterResource

I have long believed that Team Obama’s plan for CO2 was through the EPA, not through Congressional action. Congress, particularly not Democrats on a party-line vote, does not want to personally guarantee higher prices for energy, goods, and services in this, or any other economy.

But in EPA, they have the perfect alternative: they can claim credit for prescience in writing the Clean Air Act and mentioning greenhouse gases, they can “let” EPA’s endangerment finding “force” them to implement cap-and-trade to avoid a regulatory nightmare, and then, they can always turn around and abuse EPA for bad implementation when the consequences of regulating GHG’s become obvious.

Condor Conundrum by Zachary Stahl | Endangered birds versus "green" energy

CONDOR CUISINART: Charlie Wagner, owner of Conundrum Winery, would have been required to hire an ornithologist for three years to monitor bird deaths from his wind turbines.