today the Obama administration released a new plan intended to shut down American powerplants. Instead of celebrating his policies in the Rose Garden, President Obama delegated the bad news to the Environmental Protection Agency. Make no mistake about it; what they are announcing today is another step in the President's plan to make electricity rates ``necessarily skyrocket.'' Remember, that is what the President promised Americans when he was running for President the first time in 2008. Of course, when he was elected Congress said no--no to his radical plan. Even when the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi was the Speaker of the House, and the Democrats had 60 Members of the Senate--even with complete Democratic domination in both Houses of Congress--Congress still said: No, Mr. President, this is a bad idea. So the President decided he knew better than the American people, the elected representatives. He decided to go around Congress and go around the American people.…
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