MITCH MCCONNELL: Obama’s New Carbon Rule Is A ‘Dagger In The Heart Of The American Middle Class’
Brett LoGiurato
BusinessInsider.com
June 2, 2014
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks the Obama administration’s new EPA regulations won’t just cut carbon emissions.
The Kentucky Republican thinks they’re also going to slice up the middle class, saying in a statement Monday the new rules would be a “dagger in the heart of the American middle class” that would crumble the fragile U.S. economy.
“Today’s announcement is a dagger in the heart of the American middle class, and to representative Democracy itself,” McConnell said. “Already reeling from the painful effects of Obamacare, the American people are now being told they have to shoulder the burdens of the President’s latest ‘solution’ in the form of higher costs, fewer jobs, and a less reliable energy grid.”
McConnell also suggested the fact the regulations were coming from the Environmental Protection Agency rather than Capitol Hill represented an “end-run around Congress” by Obama.
“The fact that the President plans to do all this through an end-run around Congress only highlights his contempt for the wishes of the public and a system of government that was devised precisely to restrain an action like today’s,” said McConnell.
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