Item #3: Executive action on climate change
Obama claims to be concerned about global warming. He has inexplicably bought into the myth that CO2 causes hurricanes to hit Staten Island.
It's the new paradigm, don't you know? If you don't like the weather, spend a trillion, it will change. The most misguided of all his proposals, he wants to drag Congress kicking and screaming into this economic blizzard. ... and if they won't go with him? Why he'll just do everything he can with executive money-printing for this.
You get the impression that he doesn't want pesky old Congress involved in his plans in any case. Believe me, I know how he feels. Unfortunately, the US Constitution (which I understand he has twice promised to uphold) is also very pesky.
Obama takes a patently ridiculous notion that we can do something about the weather, and wants to build a massive federal program around it. It's his version of a big idea. Kennedy goes to the moon, Obama cools the earth. Then go play 18.
The reality is we could burn every last drop of oil known to man, and the planet will do what it always does, which is regulate its own temperature. I only wish Obama himself would be as self regulating. As it is, the only thing overheating right now is executive branch hubris.
A hypothetical good president would realize that the planet will save itself. Our job is to make sure its inhabitants are taken care of. Such a president would clearly be striving for more freedom and less government spending on follies like this.
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