Fox news reported today that a top White House official "warned" Congress that, if it doesn't enact legislation to regulate "greenhouse" gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will assume a "command-and-control" role that could (read will) hurt business (i.e. the economy). This is bizarre.
The last I heard, the federal government only had three branches. The EPA clearly is not part of the judicial branch, so it must either be part of the executive branch or legislative branch (many federal agencies are actually arms of Congress). Yet the President's spokesman portrays the EPA as a rogue elephant threatening to trample the economy -- this may be accurate, but how did it come to pass?
The EPA is, in fact, part of the executive branch. Consequently, the President cannot credibly deny responsibility for its actions and their consequences. And he will have a hard time blaming regulations that haven't been enacted yet on his predecessor (although I wouldn't be surprised if he tried).
Ronald Reagan once famously declared that we are people who have a government and not the other way around. I am beginning to have my doubts.
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