John Podesta issues warning to GOP on climate regulations

[Stephanie]

so this is what you voted for huh? a bunch of government agencies dictators unleashed on us all? what happened to the representation of the minority party and people? We the people are under siege by this administration

SNIP:
White House senior adviser John Podesta had a clear message Monday for Republicans trying to undo President Obama's environmental regulations: It won't work.

Podesta, dispatched to the White House briefing room Monday to preview a forthcoming report from the administration on climate change, took aim at the Republicans trying to squash new Environmental Protection Agency rules on carbon emissions.

“All I would say is that those have zero percent chance of working. We're committed to moving forward with those rules,” he said. “We're committed to maintaining the authority and the president's authority to ensure that the Clean Air Act is fully implemented.”

ALL of it here with COMMENTS
John Podesta issues warning to GOP on climate regulations | WashingtonExaminer.com

 

[RoadVirus]

Basically, what Podesta is saying is this: "We're going to destroy America and you can't stop us!"

 

[hazlnut]

Basically, what Podesta is saying is this: "We're going to destroy America and you can't stop us!"

No, Bush / Cheney already did that.

We're trying to save it.

 

[ClosedCaption]

so this is what you voted for huh? a bunch of government agencies dictators unleashed on us all? what happened to the representation of the minority party and people? We the people are under siege by this administration

SNIP:
White House senior adviser John Podesta had a clear message Monday for Republicans trying to undo President Obama's environmental regulations: It won't work.

Podesta, dispatched to the White House briefing room Monday to preview a forthcoming report from the administration on climate change, took aim at the Republicans trying to squash new Environmental Protection Agency rules on carbon emissions.

“All I would say is that those have zero percent chance of working. We're committed to moving forward with those rules,” he said. “We're committed to maintaining the authority and the president's authority to ensure that the Clean Air Act is fully implemented.”

ALL of it here with COMMENTS
John Podesta issues warning to GOP on climate regulations | WashingtonExaminer.com

And how does this dictatorship unleashing power on everyone hurt you exactly?

 

[deltex1]

Podesta is a climate expert. He has been blowing wind all of his flatulent life.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Climate change. It happens four times a year. We call them seasons.

 

[tinydancer]

Using the weather as a way to tax the shit out of everybody.

 

[Katzndogz]

There will be black outs brown outs and energy so expensive. People may just limit having the lights on for a couple of hours a day. It's a shame that wood stoves and fireplaces have already been made illegal in so many places.

democrats want to go all the way back to before there was fire.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Podesta has zero honest grasp of the meaning of the Constitution.

On the other hand, when it comes to our milquetoast Congress, I think he may have a point. By their own flaccidity, they pretty much ARE powerless to stop Obumbler from imposing his Executive Orders as though they had the force of law. They don't have to be powerless, but in all practical effect, they are.

Normally, anybody adversely impacted by the over-reaching Obumbler Administration's illegal shenanigans would have recourse in our courts of law.

But lately, that doesn't seem like much of a hope either.

 

[Katzndogz]

Executive orders can be rescinded by another executive order. Repealing these regulations won't even be subject to discussion. That is if nothing else happens to terminate obama's rule. A republican house and Senate could easily impeach him.

 

[The Rabbi]

Basically, what Podesta is saying is this: "We're going to destroy America and you can't stop us!"

No, Bush / Cheney already did that.

We're trying to save it.

The country is worse off now than it was under Bush.
The Democrats had to destroy America in order to save it.

 

[Plasmaball]

hey a cut and paste!

 

[buckeye45_73]

so this is what you voted for huh? a bunch of government agencies dictators unleashed on us all? what happened to the representation of the minority party and people? We the people are under siege by this administration

SNIP:
White House senior adviser John Podesta had a clear message Monday for Republicans trying to undo President Obama's environmental regulations: It won't work.

Podesta, dispatched to the White House briefing room Monday to preview a forthcoming report from the administration on climate change, took aim at the Republicans trying to squash new Environmental Protection Agency rules on carbon emissions.

“All I would say is that those have zero percent chance of working. We're committed to moving forward with those rules,” he said. “We're committed to maintaining the authority and the president's authority to ensure that the Clean Air Act is fully implemented.”

ALL of it here with COMMENTS
John Podesta issues warning to GOP on climate regulations | WashingtonExaminer.com

And how does this dictatorship unleashing power on everyone hurt you exactly?

no jobs, higher taxes, health premiums skyrocketing and you really dont see a problem? Take obamas dick out of you mouth and pay attention

 

[boedicca]

Using the weather as a way to tax the shit out of everybody.

Indeed. And doing so in a way that is a new kind of religious persecution.

So how is it that much of the Western world, and this country in particular, has succumbed to the self-harming collective madness that is climate-change orthodoxy? It is difficult to escape the conclusion that climate-change orthodoxy has in effect become a substitute religion, attended by all the intolerant zealotry that has so often marred religion in the past, and in some places still does so today.

Throughout the Western world, the two creeds that used to vie for popular support, Christianity and the atheistic belief system of Communism, are each clearly in decline. Yet people still feel the need both for the comfort and for the transcendent values that religion can provide. It is the quasi-religion of green alarmism and global salvationism, of which the climate-change dogma is the prime example, that has filled the vacuum, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as little short of sacrilege.

The parallel goes deeper. As I mentioned earlier, throughout the ages the weather has been an important part of the religious narrative. In primitive societies it was customary for extreme-weather events to be explained as punishment from the gods for the sins of the people; and there is no shortage of this theme in the Bible, either — particularly, but not exclusively, in the Old Testament. The contemporary version of this is that, as a result of heedless industrialization within a framework of materialistic capitalism, we have directly (albeit not deliberately) perverted the weather, and will duly receive our comeuppance.

There is another aspect, too, that may account for the appeal of this so-called explanation. Throughout the ages, something deep in man’s psyche has made him receptive to apocalyptic warnings that the end of the world is nigh. And almost all of us, whether we like it or not, are imbued with feelings of guilt and a sense of sin. How much less uncomfortable it is, how much more convenient, to divert attention away from our individual sins and reasons to feel guilty, and to sublimate them in collective guilt and collective sin.

Why does this matter? It matters, and matters a great deal, on two quite separate grounds. The first is that it has gone a long way towards ushering in a new age of unreason. It is a cruel irony that, while it was science which, more than anything else, was able by its great achievements to establish the age of reason, it is all too many climate scientists and their hangers-on who have become the high priests of a new age of unreason.

But what moves me most is that the policies invoked in its name are grossly immoral. We have, in the U.K., devised the most blatant transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich — and I am slightly surprised that it is so strongly supported by those who consider themselves to be the tribunes of the people and politically on the left. I refer to our system of heavily subsidizing wealthy landlords to have wind farms on their land, so that the poor can be supplied with one of the most expensive forms of electricity known to man.

This is also, of course, inflicting increasing damage on the British economy, to no useful purpose whatever. More serious morally, because it is on a much larger scale, is the perverse intergenerational transfer of wealth implied by orthodox climate-change policies. It is not much in dispute that future generations — those yet unborn — will be far wealthier than those — ourselves, our children, and for many of us our grandchildren — alive today. This is the inevitable consequence of the projected economic growth that, on a “business as usual” basis, drives the increased carbon emissions that in turn determine the projected future warming. It is surely perverse that those alive today should be told that they must impoverish themselves, by abandoning what is far and away the cheapest source of energy, in order to ensure that those yet to be born, who will in any case be signally better off than they are, will be better off still, by escaping the disadvantages of any warming that might occur.

However, the greatest immorality of all concerns the masses in the developing world. It is excellent that, in so many parts of the developing world — the so-called emerging economies — economic growth is now firmly on the march, as they belatedly put in place the sort of economic-policy framework that brought prosperity to the Western world. Inevitably, they already account for, and will increasingly account for, the lion’s share of global carbon emissions.

But, despite their success, there are still hundreds of millions of people in these countries in dire poverty, suffering all the ills that this brings, in terms of malnutrition, preventable disease, and premature death. Asking these countries to abandon the cheapest available sources of energy is, at the very least, asking them to delay the conquest of malnutrition, to perpetuate the incidence of preventable disease, and to increase the numbers of premature deaths.

Global-warming orthodoxy is not merely irrational. It is wicked.


A Wicked Orthodoxy | National Review Online

 

[boedicca]

There will be black outs brown outs and energy so expensive. People may just limit having the lights on for a couple of hours a day. It's a shame that wood stoves and fireplaces have already been made illegal in so many places.

democrats want to go all the way back to before there was fire.

The Peasants are so much easier to control when Scarcity gives the Lords the means to punish and reward them.

 

[OKTexas]

All I can say is thank you Mr. Podesta, this is going to be the best campaign subject ever. Independents will be fleeing the commiecrats just as soon as they realize how many jobs will be destroyed by this BS. Hell we may even wind up with a veto proof congress, then they can shove his words right up his ass.

 

[The T]

Basically, what Podesta is saying is this: "We're going to destroy America and you can't stop us!"

No, Bush / Cheney already did that.

We're trying to save it.

The country is worse off now than it was under Bush.
The Democrats had to destroy America in order to save it.

And remold it in their Socialist/Marxist/Progressive image.

 

[The T]

Using the weather as a way to tax the shit out of everybody.

And control what we do and how we live out lives. That's ALL this is about. Control over the masses.

 

[srlip]

that's ok, there won't be enough Dems left in congress to stop jack squat 6 months from now. THANKS, Obamacare!

 

[The T]

All I can say is thank you Mr. Podesta, this is going to be the best campaign subject ever. Independents will be fleeing the commiecrats just as soon as they realize how many jobs will be destroyed by this BS. Hell we may even wind up with a veto proof congress, then they can shove his words right up his ass.

I belive only 30% of Americans believe in the AGW fakery anyway. This is all another diversion by Obama and the Democrats...because they have nothing else. They're going to get their collective asses pummeled this year...and they know it. This is another act of desperation.