As DrewM. says, clearly the Obama Administration isn’t socialist or anything. They’re just threatening to bypass Congress and implement  ”command and control” policies in the name of saving the earth.

Let me repeat that. The Obama Administration is now threatening to bypass Congress and implement “command and control” policies in the name of saving the earth.

But while administration officials have long said they prefer Congress take action on climate change, the economic official who spoke with reporters Tuesday night made clear that the EPA will not wait and is prepared to act on its own.

And it won’t be pretty.

“If you don’t pass this legislation, then … the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area,” the official said. “And it is 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.”

Climate change legislation that passed the House is stuck in the Senate, but the EPA finding Monday was seen as a boost to the U.S. delegation in Denmark trying to convince other countries that Washington is capable of taking action to follow through with any global commitments.

The economic official explained that congressional action could be better for the economy, since it would provide “compensation” for higher energy prices, especially for small businesses dealing with those higher energy costs. Otherwise, the official warned that the kind of “uncertainty” generated by unilateral EPA action would be a huge “deterrent to investment,” in an economy already desperate for jobs.

They “prefer” to follow the United States Constitution and capitalistic ideals, but they’ll bypass the supreme law of the land and implement complete socialist policies if the elected representatives of the American people don’t do what President Obama demands.

How long before we’re told holding elections in 2010 would be dangerous for the future of the earth, and therefore the Obama Administration must do what it deems best and bypass the electoral process? There was a time when that would sound whacky conspiratorial. No longer.