Ohio Rep. Bill Johnson is denouncing the Obama administration and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular for imposing new regulations that have already forced six coal-fired power plants to announce plans to shut down. Johnson explains the different regulations that are at issue and why they are having such a significant impact. He also addresses the question of how his constituents and Americans in two other states will get their power and why President Obama and Senate Democrats have the ability to reverse this.
Archives for February 7, 2012
A Localized Loss on Marriage
A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a lower court ruling on Tuesday in striking down a voter-approved definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The 2-1 decision states that the referendum known as Proposition 8 violates the 14th Amendment on equal protection. The ruling might pave the way for the official return of gay marriage in California, although supporters of Proposition 8 could appeal to the full 9th Circuit or to the U.S. Supreme Court. Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver is disappointed in the decision but says it could have been worse for traditional marriage advocates. He tells us why this decision really only mandates that gay couples can use the word marriage and doesn’t change basic laws in the state. Staver explains why he believes that the gay rights lobby is probably not completely thrilled with this decision. And he tells us why defenders of Proposition 8 should not appeal this decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Three Martini Lunch 2/7/12
Greg Corombos of Radio America and Jim Geraghty of National Review are chuckling as President Obama starts up a Super PAC just two years after scolding the Supreme Court over them. They also discuss the Chrysler ad during the Superbowl that some see as a thinly veiled ad for Obama’s re-election bid. And they shred Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for telling Egyptian television that she would never model a new Constitution on the one that we have today.