This creates a kind of compounded presidential power phenomenon where the President takes his power not from Congress or constitutional delegation but by the actions of past presidents. This is a line of reasoning that has been accepted by the courts. In particular, courts pay attention to the reaction of Congress to executive orders and if Congress either does not react, or reacts favorably, via appropriates for example, to past executive orders, the court is reticent to hold the most recent promulgation of executive authority unjustified. In other words, when there exists a chain of executive order precedent on an issue, which Congress has not directly opposed, the court is more likely to support the most recent link in that chain.This foundational presidential power phenomenon can be applied as an argument for executive authority to address climate change because the executive orders issued by previous presidents on this issue may serve, as did those issued by President Kennedy’s predecessors, as a strong foundation for current executive power. For example, a number of executive orders issued in the past thirty years can be used as a foundation for current authority to implement climate change policies by executive order.
Several members of the Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES) in Boulder, Colorado spent more than half of 2007 researching and analyzing ways in which the next President of the United States could utilize executive orders virtually unchecked to implement emergency climate change measures in the first 100 days in office. The CEES is a program of the Law School of the University of Colorado and is affiliated with The Presidential Climate Action Project whose board member, former Senator Gary Hart, holds the Wirth Chair at the University in Denver. The alarming, frightening quotation above is from page 143 of their 217 page report, The Boundaries of Executive Authority and is subtitled, Using Executive Orders to Implement Federal Climate Change Policy. It is a bold, detailed plan for a willing President to enact, without expressed legislative consent or judicial interference, radical emergency measures to drastically alter the American economy and way of life.
We have suffered for seven years the constant hysterical harangue from the Left that George W. Bush has conducted himself like some dictatorial monarch. The irony completely escapes those vocal wretches who now have laid down the roadmap for a new Democratic President to literally invoke emergency powers to reorder our economy and enact regulations which would severely cripple our way of life. The specter exists also a McCain presidency would be tempted by such anti-constitutional larceny. I do not believe the Republican candidate would leave the reservation for such a fool’s folly, but I do allow the possibility survives.
The Presidential Climate Action Project has produced their own master climate policy plan to which the CEES legal strategies serve as a sort of down and dirty handbook to accomplish their goals while neutralizing those irritating American citizens and voters.
Last, but not least, Leslie Carothers, president of the Environmental Law Institute, has editorialized in the Christian Science Monitor about how there should a litmus test for judicial appointees concerning global climate change because the crisis is just too serious for America to be bothered with minor trivialities like the Constitution. There are many people and organizations working day and night to erode your freedoms and liberty. Stay vigilant.
Nota Bene: Other than one small reference by Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com, I have found only one small town Colorado newspaper writing about this subject. No reports by any news outlet or blog, conservative or otherwise, have surfaced in my research other than academically-oriented and sympathetic NGO websites on the internet. I find it alarming no person or organization has picked up this story. This is original reporting by Lone Star Times and while we are glad to provide it, I personally, am alarmed by the fact it continues to ride below the radar of Americans.
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When I was on my way up to New Mexico a few years ago for my backpacking trip, I got to hear an interview with Dr. William Gray,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Gray
one of the world’s foremost recognized meteorologists. He stated that the whole global warming phenomenon is a manufacturing boogey man.
His take on it was that after the end of the cold war and the drastic cutbacks in military spending, many universities lost all those big research grants.
Science departments were facing massive cutbacks. They needed a new enemy since the Soviet bear was largely gone.
PRESTO - Global Warming.
He stated the science behind this theory was so bogus that it was laughable, but that since it generated university positions and grants, the proponents were more than willing to manufacture any data they could to justify their continuing “work” and presence at the universities.
We are spinning out of sync, and I have clueless how to stop the idiocy, on so many levels. Have we ever had another time in history, where we are inundated with threat after threat, not from outside but from within?
American woman….see the period 1861 to 1865. More dead Americans from within than we’ve lost in all our other wars COMBINED. We survived that. We’ll survive this. At least most of us will.
If this post doesn’t frighten you, nothing will.
Big45 this isn’t a war where people die. This is a war within the judicial arena and government. These actors in this drama are using the judiciary, and laws we have to undermine our country. I think they are succeeding.
Shannon I am scared to death, and I don’t know what to do about it, but buy more ammo.
I understand AW. I won’t be all that concerned. We still have the legal mechanisms in place to reverse this IF the American people think it important enough. As I pointed out, our Founding Fathers endured a heck of alot of nonsense before they told the King to stuff it up his royal behind. That hasn’t changed since 1775.
When the American people get a belly full, they’ll do something about it. In the mean time, keep buying guns and ammo - just in case.
This question has nothing to do with global warming, but how long do shotgun shells last? Will they go bad?
AW, if you keep them inside and out of heat and humidity, 20 years shelf life is nothing unusual. Better though to have a shot shell reloading press with plenty of primers, shot and powder.
I ain’t skeered so much any more. Every single day I read about another world-renowned scientist publicly stating that this pseudo-science is junk and should be ignored. Politicians are always the last to figure it out but I suspect the global warming pendulum has swung almost as far left as its going to and we’re approaching the apogee. Soon we will start swinging back towards sanity.
What’s up with the fonts on this thread?
Hamous, I think it’s cause you used the word apogee, that we have font problems!.
Sorry Hamous. Politicians do not experience apogee. Only perigee.
Call in the squawkman. He can fix it. or photoshop it.
#12 LOL! I think I used to have a bong named “Apogee”
There we go. Somebody forgot to close the font tag.
Wordpress has been really squirrelly today. It kept changing my blockquote tags on this thread. I had to edit it twice and finally did it manually so it would stick. Weird.
I ended up removing all those times roman fonts.
#18 hamous
Thanks, I’ve been in too much of a hurry all day. Too many deadlines.
By the way, if you find this piece too depressing, there is good news in next thread on the front page.
Hamous. You’re telling on yourself. You had a bong ?
And did you use water or Mad Dog ?
Hamous used Wild Turkey in his bong.
He named his bong?!?!?
“Apogee” is a great name for something that gets you high.
/hamous was a geek all along. I knew it…
#23 I’m with you on this one Bob……….. he named his bong……. I would have thought it to be a female name.
#25 AW, you bring up a good point. He could have named it Bruce.
Sounds to me like the Judges are bi-polar. If Congress passes a law, the courts seem happy to knock it down on Constitutional grounds. If, however the Prezzie decides to do something with a Presidential order, the judges stand on Precident. I don’t get it.
LOL. I didn’t name it. That was the brand or model name. And that was a long time ago in a land far away. I did name my 1965 Telecaster, though. Her name was Chiquita.
Hamous, do you still have the telly?
He better still have the Tele!
But the real question is: did he use Wild Turkey in his bong???
I thought this was a legal blog, but apparently I’ve stumbled into a crack house. It sure is messy around here.
LOL - I’m just giving Hamous a hard time. We were all teens once. No crack allowed, though.
#28, 29 - In 1982 a no-good punk named JOE POLLEY from Spring broke into my house off of Treschwig, stole several guitars (including Chiquita), amps and pa systems, then set all the beds in the house on fire. The sheriffs and arson investigators had several leads that would have tied JOE POLLEY to the crime but never followed any of them. So if any of you ever run into JOE POLLEY, beware, and let him know I have a very long memory. My guess is he’s either dead or in prison (lying on his belly right now with Cletus and Bubba playing a game of butt darts. Thanks, faster
) courtesy of karma but I’d still like to have my telecaster back.
Thanks for being a good sport Hamous. I did some googling and found this picture of a contemporary recreation of the Apogee Bong.
Oh, hammie, you were really mad he stole your designer, name-brand bong.
#33 jimb
Well, when I was a teenager, we only knew about one kind of crack, but that’s story for another place and another time.
No shannon, as I recall, and this is hazy, I believe my parents found it and that was the end of the apogee bong and any driving rights I had for a long time. But that’s how long ago it was.
Bob - that’s it! except mine was blue.
And for all you children out there, I learned at an early age that smoking pot and school did not mix and straightened up pretty dang quick.
oh my bong nostalgia. Too bad about the telecaster. It pains me to read of your loss.
He can’t recall clearly how the bong went away, but he remembers EXACTLY what it looked like!
Interesting™
/channeling headshaker
#34 - Oh, no he DITN’T!
/puts up hand and wags head back and forth hood-style
(I still wanna know if you put Wild Turkey in your bong - We were known to put Jack in ours)
Thanks for being a good sport Hamous. I did some googling and found this picture of a contemporary recreation of the Apogee Bong.
Uh-oh. Bob’s repeating himself. Back away from the bong!
Oh, now bob42’s trying to mess with my head!
jimb, I didn’t drink back then. We couldn’t buy it (now pot, OTOH…) If I did it wasn’t whiskey. Maybe Strawberry Hill or the occasional beer out of someone’s parent’s stash. Don’t think we ever put anything but water in the bong. Growing up in the heart of watermelon country we did spike a few of those, as Dude mentioned the other day.
Boy did this thread take a bizarre twist!
Heh. I’m stuck at work doing the “hot issue troubleshootin” thing, so I’m feeling sort of goofy tonite…
#45 hamous
Just you wait, the payback is hell.
It is interesting that it is OK for the Left to recommend that the President be “imperialistic” whem it advances their agenda. As Shakey would say, PODS™!
Just another reason to keep a Democratic president out of the office.
As a yute (Rush word) Hamous took a trip to Australia in search of the famed billabong. He had heard it was the size and shape of a kangaroo, and the hose was the size of the tail. Hamous paid a king’s ransom for a gentleman to guide him to the best billabong in the country. The gentleman dropped Hamous off here,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billabong
and told Hamous to search for it.
Let’s see. Clinton did this without UN authorization:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/02/haiti_clintons_photoop_war_a_l.html
and now we are left with this because he didn’t actually stay and make sure the job was done right:
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/4_4_8/4_4_8.html
Never found the billabong. But I did waltz with Matilda!
Mayhap George W. Bush is planning on some Executive Orders as his Presidency winds down, something to neutralize Clinton’s self-absorbed activities or to throw a monkey wrench into a liberal successor’s global warming plots. Unfortunately in this instance John McCain falls into the GW trap as well as the Dems and needs to be prevented from wreaking havoc on the country from the get-go.