We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/its_de_facto.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:09:50 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Back on October 17th, and in regards to the Copenhagen Boondoggle, I posted Countdown To The End Of Our Sovereignty... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/its_de_facto.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/its_de_facto.html Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:42:54 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/its_de_facto.html#comment-96237 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/its_de_facto.html#comment-96237 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:07:44 -0600
I'm thinking that said Agency needs to be brought into full compliance with the Clean Air Act under the current Carbon Dioxide determination-that being they need to be forced to move out of any office not powered by zero-emissions sources, be relieved of any non-zero-emissions vehicles in their fleets (including staff cars and limousines), etc. etc.

IF they then can perform their duties after being brought into compliance, they should by all means move forward on enforcing that ruling on someone else-but not before demonstrating the ability to achieve compliance at or above the level they intend to enforce on non-governmental persons...

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They shouldn't leave the duct tape in place forever, of course, since this is just a *symbolic* act.

I figure 10 minutes should be plenty of time...
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These days, it's merely some additional noise generators for the insane clown posse...
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The Clean Air Act, stupid as it is (in this context), is not an end-run around the Legislature.

They, after all, enacted it, with the very provisions used to declare CO2 a "pollutant", a process that began well before Copenhagen.

That the effect of this EPA decision is kinda-sorta-like the Copenhagen treaty does not, legally or logically, make it an unconstitutional enactment of it.

(Any more than, for instance, the Executive deciding to stop using landmines would could as an illegal enactment of the unratified Landmine Treaty.)

It's a daft decision, but it's the Legislature's own laws coming back to bite us on the ass - until public pressure forces them to exempt CO2 from EPA governance.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/its_de_facto.html#comment-96188 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/its_de_facto.html#comment-96188 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:42:32 -0600 Yippie, a chance to keep our feet dry around here in the Lowlands! Thank you Chosen One. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/its_de_facto.html#comment-96187 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/12/its_de_facto.html#comment-96187 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:46:29 -0600