An inconvenient public

Just as important world leaders like, say, Leonardo DiCaprio gather in Copenhagen to ignore the East Anglia emails and press ahead with their global warming crisis mongering, it appears the current administration intends to follow the same railroad at home:

...the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.

An "endangerment" finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way for the government to require businesses that emit carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases to make costly changes in machinery to reduce emissions -- even if Congress doesn't pass pending climate-change legislation. EPA action to regulate emissions could affect the U.S. economy more directly, and more quickly, than any global deal inked in the Danish capital, where no binding agreement is expected.

This would be the same objective, neutral EPA that says the East Anglia emails "change nothing."

EPA documents released Monday state that greenhouse gases threaten human health — a finding that is a precursor to planned regulations controlling emissions from power plants, vehicles and other sources.

Republicans including House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking member Darrell Issa (Calif.) said e-mails among climate scientists hacked from a British research institute show holes in the case that humans are causing global warming.

(EPA Administrator Lisa) Jackson disagreed.

“There is nothing in the hacked e-mails that undermines the science upon which this decision is based,” Jackson said in announcing the finding this afternoon.

Maybe, maybe not. But those emails have certainly undermined the public's sense that the Global Warming crowd is playing straight with them. Which explains why the administration would rather impose its edict through unconstitutional executive fiat via the EPA than try to make its case in Congress.

After all, submitting to accountability by the people is so... republican (small "r"). And as you watch the coverage from Copenhagen, just remember: some animals are more equal than others.