On the recordMarch 3, 2010
Where will it all end? First the EPA decides to regulate breathing, and now we learn that the Department of the Interior is planning a land grab that is so brazen that it is difficult to believe. By misusing the Antiquities Act, the White House is planning to lock up more than 13 million acres of land in 11 Western States, including more than 2.5 million in Montana alone, much of which is privately owned. And they can do it without so much as one single public hearing or a vote in Congress. Some of that land belongs to private citizens who have no idea that the Federal Government is planning to kick them off their ranches. If the government can do this to them, what can it do to you? When policies like cap-and-trade, government-run health care, and establishment of new Federal lands are unpopular, you don't merely bypass Congress or change the rule to ram it through. Americans are sick of secret bureaucratic overreach and Washington, D.C., tricks.
