Democrats declare needless emergencies — on COVID and maybe climate change — to grab power
By Karol Markowicz
July 24, 2022 6:57pm
An emergency is a dangerous situation requiring action. Someone tell our elected officials — they clearly don’t know the meaning of the term.
Last week, President Joe Biden considered declaring climate change an “emergency.” Pressured by his party’s leftist flank, which can’t enact climate-change legislation and wants a work-around where it doesn’t have to persuade people to accept its ideas, the president ultimately decided to hold off.
But something either is an emergency or isn’t. The president being able to control the timing of that emergency announcement means it isn’t.
Putting aside that there’s no evidence that any climate proposals, even the radical Green New Deal, would have any effect on global climate change, declaring something an emergency when it’s not is simply a naked power grab.
I understand the president’s confusion over what constitutes an emergency. We’ve been living under just this kind of anti-democratic diktat for more than two years.
When COVID hit in early 2020, it was easy to understand why governments declared emergencies across the country. A new virus was spreading, and we had no idea what it was. We allowed our elected officials extra powers to deal with it. That was a mistake.
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