The New Socialism

Charles Krauthammer often has an interesting take on things - this morning he argues that the Administration's use of EPA regulation over carbon emissions is a naked assertion of executive power. He says "If you want to revolutionize society -- as will drastic carbon regulation and taxation in an energy economy that is 85 percent carbon-based -- you do it through Congress reflecting popular will. Not by administrative fiat of EPA bureaucrats." The proposed EPA regulation will reach into every aspect of American life allowing the substitution of bureaucratic judgment for popular will That sounds about right and he argues that the Congress should reign in the EPA on this. That is unlikely with the way Congress works today.