Barack Obama – Neo-Conservative (?)
Who could have expected that Obama would be a big States Rights guy, like we on the Conservative side want the GOP to be?
Reversing another Bush administration policy, President Obama announced this morning that he will order environmental regulators to immediately look at the request by Massachusetts and at least a dozen other states decide their own standards on auto emissions, an avenue for reducing carbon dioxide and other gases that help cause global warming.
“We must have the courage and commitment to change,” Obama declared.
In 2007, the Bush administration denied California’s request to enact tougher tailpipe emissions standards, which would force automakers to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent in new cars and light trucks by 2016.
So, Obama is a neo-con, wanting to uphold the power of the 10th Amendment and return the power back to the States where it belongs, and Bush was a neo-liberal, wanting to increase the power of the federal government over the States? Weird, dudes
(Yeah, I know he probably did it for some other reason, probably because States will enact the legislation faster then the Fed gubermint, but, it was fun to write! Now, if only he and the other electaCritters would remember what the 9th Amendment states.)
In related news, the car makers are highly concerned over this, as they think it could harm their business even farther when combined with this down economy.
And, oh, Mann Made Global Warming Has Been Confirmed.
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Posted by William Teach on January 26, 2009 8:16 pm
» Filed Under Barack Obama, Constitution, Economy, Energy, Global Warming, News
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All Hail Obama Super Genius:
Issue an executive order, in the midst of a rapidly deepening recession, that will ultimately force struggling auto companies to spend even more money to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
Gee, it’s good to be the king, isn’t it?
The states rights amendment is the 10th Amendment. The 9th is the one that states the bill of rights should not be used to deprive a person of other natural rights not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. I do believe it also mentions states so if a state recognized a right and the federal government did not the state would have the advantage.
It is politics that Obama and Bush are putting before adherence to the U.S. Constitution as California wants to enact liberal policies.