Yesterday, as I write this on Friday for publishing on Saturday) was a complete sinkhole. Got absolutely nothing done in any aspect. Yes, there were reasons, and all of them led to one thing – I was in no mood to write. Hey, it happens.
And given how Life is throwing challenges at us, I’m just surprised that it isn’t happening more often while other stuff keeps dropping on the floor. So, I surfed a bit (and only had time for a little bit of that), and this popped up:
New Jersey Governor Seeks to End All Gas-Powered Vehicle Sales by 2035
No surprise there – most Democrat governors are all in with the “keep it in the ground” and hating on the fossil fuels that have made modern life possible. It’s just one more example of elected officials starting to RULE rather than doing the Representative GOVERNING that our Constitutional system set up. We fought a Revolutionary War to cast off a Ruler (King George) and to be able to self-govern and no longer be subjects and serfs.
The first paragraph under the title was what set me off (emphasis mine):
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy proposed rules this week requiring car manufacturers to increase the sales of electric vehicles and would mandate a total ban of all gas-powered vehicles over the next 12 years.
Rules? Really, rules? Er, what about doing your job and creating legislation? After all, you’re supposed to be the unitary leg of our three branches of government in NJ, right? Your Legislature creates bills, you sign them into Law, and the Judiciary is supposed to play umpire, right? Rules aren’t Law except…well, this first:
In a news release on Monday, the Democrat governor announced the Advanced Clean Cars II proposal was submitted to the state’s Office of Administrative Law that would mandate more sales of zero-emission vehicles. The proposal has to be approved by that office before it can take effect.
“By filing the ACCII proposal, we build upon our nation-leading record of bold climate action while delivering on our promise to utilize every tool at our disposal,” Mr. Murphy said in the release. “Our commitment to bringing the ACCII proposal to fruition is a commitment to every New Jersey family and the air they breathe, air that will be cleaner and healthier tomorrow thanks to the steps we’re taking to reduce emissions today,” he added.
Ta-Da! Welcome to the Administrative State – the goal of Progressives since the early 1880s! We rubes are just too dumb to know what is best for us – we’z needs Expoits to tell us what to do. You know, like we wuz chil’ren.
He just announced himself to be the elected King of New Jersey. Who needs a silly Legislature when I now have my own fiefdom of bureaus, commissions, boards, and “Offices” that can do what he commands out of the eye of the public and not have to go through that long-drawn-out affair of lots of hot air, draft after draft, hornswoggling and trading tit-for-tat by people elected to do that kind of thing. And further, he doesn’t have to worry about it failing. And the big lament (and attitude):
I want what I want and I want it NOW! How DARE you say no!
Never happens this way. No stubborn Democrats to get in his way and those obstructive Republicans that would stop this by saying “No, PEOPLE should decide for THEMSELVES and not Government!” can go pound sand.
And by this, it ends up that the people of New Jersey are cut out of the loop. They have lost “self-governorship” both of their Government and of themselves. Welcome to the Soviet Union, Communist China, and the Stasi East Germans.
But boy, he only wants “the best” for you all. Isn’t that just nice and dandy?
And of course, the DUFUS Republicans start yammering about the wrong thing:
Mr. Murphy’s proposal has drawn flack from state Republican officials, including Senate Minority Leader Steven Oroho, who described the proposal as unrealistic. A number of New Jersey households rely on cheaper, used gas-powered vehicles to get around, and the proposed rules would drastically increase prices.
“It seems the governor was serious when he said he wants to turn New Jersey into the California of the East Coast,” Mr. Oroho said in a recent statement. “Somebody should tell him that’s not a good thing when people and businesses are fleeing California in droves as the Golden State declines under liberal policy failures.”
Did you see what just happened there? What the proper response SHOULD have been – and is completely missing?
Oroho, with his answer, essentially assented that he and the other legislators are irrelevant. They are no longer part of the process. With “described the proposal as unrealistic”, he showed he disagreed with the premise (govt WILL take away your preferred mode of travel) but is in complete agreement that the Administrative State should be in control.
And Oroho wasn’t the only one:
On Monday, other Republican lawmakers said that the rule would make living in the state far less affordable, adding that stopping gas-powered vehicle production “only caters to the rich” who can afford EVs. “When you have people that are living on fixed incomes, they simply cannot afford to replace their affordable gas-powered vehicle with a more expensive electric car,” said state Sen. Robert Singer, a Republican.
They ought to just quit now as they’ve already given up their Power.
In fact, the NH Republicans are similar – by going along with the Democrats in creating and preserving the Executive Branch making its own “regulations as Law” (re: JLCAR), our same stage has been set.
In both cases and CERTAINLY at the Federal level, the Executive Branch has been larded up for two reasons:
- Democrats WANT it this way
- Legislators on both sides of the aisle have become too lazy to do their jobs to the degree that they should.
They half-ass the jobs of writing bills, tossing it over the wall, and let the Executive Branch write the actual Law that rules us all. Here in NH, they ought to be writing each bill to outline the small details that they believe they are “above” doing. Or have gotten used to bureaucrats doing it for them.
And no, don’t tell me that you have to process 1,000 bills every season so Doing The Job Right can’t be done because of lack of time.
Make the time. Review your processes and streamline out the stupid bills. Concentrate on the important bills.
Like the first one is to required to DO Your Jobs Right.
(H/T: Epoch Times)
