Was Chicago-style political thuggery the type of “hope and change” for which Americans voted in 2008?<\/p>\n
Either way, that’s the White House’s emerging modus operandi<\/em>.<\/p>\n Intially, the Obama Administration at least paid lip service to bipartisanship, even if the reality behind closed doors was quite different.\u00a0 But with the EPA’s recent determination that everyday carbon dioxide constitutes a “dangerous pollutant,”<\/a> Obama has abandoned even that pretense.\u00a0 According to an anonymous White House source quoted by Fox News, the EPA’s absurd ruling is a bald political tactic to bludgeon the Senate and the business community into accepting carbon cap-and-tax legislation:<\/p>\n If you don’t pass this legislation, then … the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area.\u00a0 And it’s not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it’s going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty.” <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The House of Representatives passed a cap-and-tax bill by razor-thin margins, but its prospects in the Senate appeared slim.\u00a0 Meanwhile, many business coalitions have refused to play ball in the White House’s game of global warming hysteria.\u00a0 Enter the team of Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, with their ugly form of Chicago politics.<\/p>\n