Senator John Dingell Calls Out His Fellow Democrats On Global Warming
He’s not directly jabbing at the rampant (and inappropriate) alarmism surrounding the issue, but he is saying that if his fellow Democrats think it’s such a big issue they should actually show some leadership.
Usually Congressional subcommittee hearings are as routine and tedious as they sound, but John Dingell managed to enliven one on Thursday. The venerable Michigan Democrat had the candor to point out that if climate change is really the transcendent challenge his party says it is, then Congress should bother to pass legislation, not outsource policy to the Environmental Protection Agency.
For months, the little tyrants of the global warming caucus – Barbara Boxer, Henry Waxman, Ed Markey – have been trying to force the EPA into declaring that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant under current clean air laws, which could result in a cap-and-trade program by regulatory decree. Such posturing allows Democrats to display crocodile outrage and take credit for “leadership” on a popular goal, while shifting the blame for the costs of achieving it onto the EPA. In the bargain, it insulates them from political consequences and avoids the grubby business of actually crafting some global warming “solution.”
The charade is too much for Mr. Dingell, the Chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. Diverging from his prepared remarks, he said it was leading to “a glorious mess” and called the liberal bluff: “As a matter of national policy, it seems to me to be insane that we would be talking about leaving this kind of judgment, which everybody tells us has to be addressed with great immediacy, to a long and complex process of regulatory action.”
The key here, I think, is that certain Democrats don’t want to overplay their hand on global warming. If they try to take too much direct Congressional action the level of scrutiny on the issue is going to rise and the cracks in global warming dogma are going to show. But if they leave the matter to the “long and complex process of regulator action” it stays a little further under the radar, and thus there is less scrutiny even as the liberals further the issue as a way to expand the size and power of government.
By the way, you know that “dangerous pollutant” Democrats are trying to get the EPA regulate under clean air laws? It’s C02, something that each and every human on the face of the earth exhales every time he or she breathes. Meaning, according to Democrats, that we humans pollute the environment with a “dangerous” gas every time we breathe.
If that sounds like lunacy, that’s because it is.
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