Taking On The System

By Semperpapa

There may be a little bit of hope that the newly elected Republican majority in the House might have actually gotten the message that the American people sent on November 2, 2010.

The freshman class was most likely already aware of the people’s desires, but it looks like that even the old dogs who have been in Congress for some time might have gotten the “memo”.

California Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican who won re-election and who is now the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, appears to get it too.

In fact, on the very first day of the 112^th Congress session, the new majority introduced legislation to block regulations made by the EPA regarding greenhouse gases and other economy-killing provisions.

The legislation is not designed to provide a free-for-all on pollution, as the liberals would want us to believe, but it is a measure that would relax some of the most strangling and tyrannical regulations the EPA has in place to pander to the environmental terrorists on the Left.

Michigan Republican Rep. Fred Upton, new chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, declared his intention to resist the White House attempt to use regulatory agencies to impose regulations that the President could not achieve via duly voted congressional legislation.

Rep. Upton action was met by the resistance of one of those environmental terrorists who have made their name well known as a true enemy of our Nation, California Senator Barbara Boxer.

Boxer, who is the Chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Upton decrying his attempt to reverse provisions of the Clean air Act and vowing to fight any attempt to stop the implementation of the Act provisions in the name of the health and safety of the American people.

To keep it in prospective, this is the same senator who remained silent about the shutting down of water supply to the central California Valley to protect a two inch long fish in the Sacramento River, action that caused thousands of acres of fertile agricultural terrain to turn into an arid, unproductive desert, and thousands of jobs and small farm businesses to disappear.

Rep. Upton responded to Boxer’s letter via his press secretary, reminding the dim-light senator that California and Michigan share the dubious distinction of a 12.4% and rising unemployment and that the Congressman will do anything possible to try and reduce that statistic.

On a similar note, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La) introduced a bill, supported by 28 other House Republicans that would put a stop to the Obama practice of having “policy czars” issuing directives that have direct impact on the American people, but do not receive any scrutiny from Congress.

Basically, the legislation would eliminate another way that President Obama has used to impose his agenda without having Congress, and the American people, voice their opinions.

This is good legislation. Liberals cry that Bush had czars, but it was just as unacceptable then as it is with Obama. Moreover, it will be a good day for America when radical Marxists like John Holdren and his eugenic theories will be escorted out of Washington D.C.

Darrel Issa is vowing to bring up in Committee the policies of the administration that the American people are less than thrilled with and have them scrutinized. It is a good step I hope the new Congress will follow up on.

I also hope that the newly elected Republicans will work to reverse the process of radicalization that the liberal progressives led by Obama have pursued since 2006. Ultimately, I still hold the position that the American people need to remain vigilant to anything that goes on in our Nation’s Capital and hold the politicians accountable.

That is our job.

Just my thoughts!