“Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges.”

Since Congress has not passed Cap and Trade, the Administration is planning to implement it by fiat. Last December, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson classified carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant and asserted her authority over it under the Clean Air Act. In April, the EPA issued rules limiting greenhouse gases in automobile emissions and is preparing to do the same for power plants. Ultimately, however, the Supreme Court, which is loathe to allow any of three branches of government to impinge upon the powers of another, except for themselves of course, will stop the IPA’s coup d’état.

In the meantime: “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges.”

(Background info from Investor’s Business Daily, August 12, 2010, p. A1)