I agree.
And I am agreeing with President Obama’s mentor, Constitutional Law scholar Larry Tribe.
More here:
the EPA, like every administrative agency, is constitutionally forbidden to exercise powers Congress never delegated to it in the first place. The brute fact is that the Obama administration failed to get climate legislation through Congress. Yet the EPA is acting as though it has the legislative authority anyway to re-engineer the nation’s electric generating system and power grid. It does not.
Not that a little thing like the Constitution matters to the environmentalists who want to run our lives. Like religious bigots, they think that they have exclusive possession of the “truth,” by which they mean their opinions, which they mischaracterize as “science.” And like religious bigots, they believe that there can be no debate, because they are on the side of good, and all who disagree with them are on the side of evil.
Unlike religious bigots, they now hold power.
This can be depended upon to get worse. Even if ordinary people were to wise up and vote, tyrannical administrative agencies like the EPA are not going anywhere.
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13 responses to ““Burning the Constitution should not become part of our national energy policy””
Can’t get much energy from burning constitutions in any case. And they burn even dirtier than coal. Making it renewable could be a real problem, you would need a continuously sitting constitutional convention churning out verbiage. Some of the laws could get really strange as people run out of ideas. “Congress shall make no laws respecting the institution of asparagus or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” type stuff.
Seriously, the problem with constitutions is they are only as effective as the government is willing to abide by them. Our government has been spiralling out of control for decades with plenty of help from all sides. I don’t know what the answer is.
One thing I appreciate about the Swiss constitution is that it’s much longer than ours, not because it covers more material, but because the text includes a lot more exposition on why various clauses are included, what the limits are and so on. It’s a lot harder to pervert the Swiss equivalent of something like the interstate commerce clause.
I Republican president created the EPA, and the Republican congress can rein it in.
Nixon: EPA, OSHA and implemented most of LBJ’s Great Society programs.
when the methane gas frozen in the oceans start to melt the epa will be told don’t worry about the constitution just start giving post natal abortions to climate change denighers and then republicans and conservatives in general. adios amigos!
Yo, zonetard, have you ever tried making sense?
I love the smell of burning constitutions in the morning.
@MM Google methane and oceans – seems to be yet an other “global warming” thing to panic about.
He’s not insane, just a bit credulous.
mountain when the methane melts and bubbles to the surface it will make sense to you.
I know what a methane hydrate is. Another scare story, this week’s national emergency du jour. fnord
Throwing out a few identifiable words in a jumble of ungrammatical wordslaw isn’t an argument. I’m really not convinced it isn’t a bot, and an amateurish one at that.
clathrate
If you really think the trivial contribution of human industry to atmospheric CO2 will somehow lead to a titanic global worldfart shouldn’t you support immediate conversion to nuclear power, and high level funding for thorium reactor engineering and LENR research. In fact, isn’t it a moral obligation?
Remember back in the good old days of Bill and Monica how we were dutifully scolded by the punditocracy about how the French were so much more civilized than we mouth-breathing red-state barbarians about that sort of thing, what with Jacques Chirac’s wife and mistress both attending his funeral and all… (might be misremembering details about which exact politician/mistress combo it was)
Yeah, I’m all on board with that. We should be more like the Froggies and generate 85% of our power from nukes.
I mean, if nuclear reactors are good enough for the Iranians and North Koreans surely we deserve a few more of our own, it’s only fair.
Remember kids,if you’re cold and shivering in the dark, throw another environmentalist on the fire.
Cap, it looks like the world was warmer four or five times in the past half a million years than it is now. Do you know if the frozen methane gas bubbled up and killed all life during those warm periods? If so, then the Young Earth Creationists must be right. Jesus is coming and you can’t hide behind the couch ’cause he’ll find you anyway.
Sounds like they got global warming pegged!
Dunno. How many calories per pound can you get out of a stack of burning Constitutions? Enough to heat a full McMansion, or just a shotgun shack?
Considering how cavalierly our elected err… “Leaders” (for lack of a suitably scathing term) treat the contents of the document, kindling might be the only real use they can find for it.
It soitanly hasn’t been fulfilling its intended purpose of being a limiter on the scope and reach of the Federal government, no matter which party’s been in office.