The Growing Tyranny of the Political Elite

Recently, the White House released a photo of the president shooting skeet. But where’s the snap of him fishing for bass? Apparently the White House felt compelled to portray Obama as a marksman in light of the widespread pushback over the administration’s gun control agenda but felt no urgency to defend the prospect of the EPA’s potential regulation of lead in fishing weights. Yet the agency seriously entertained just such a ban last year. What’s next? The lead in barbells?

For hundreds of years, human beings have used lead for many purposes, and life on earth has not exactly come to an end. Now we are told that the lead used in hunting and fishing is harming animals and fish, and it may just have to stop. The scary thing is that one individual, an appointed bureaucrat directing the Environmental Protection Agency, has the power to impose such a ban.

The pattern is familiar with this administration. A small cadre of elite administrators, czars, judges, or politicians — often just one person — thinks it (or he or she) has the right to decide what’s best for 320 million Americans. Without adequate information, debate, or cost analysis, regulations are written and imposed, and no one, not even the people’s representatives in the House of Representatives, has the right to influence them.

Political elites have always existed in America, and during the past 100 years they have gravitated toward the Democratic Party. FDR’s “brain trust,” which included Guy Tugwell and Hugh Johnson, was just one example. But perhaps no administration in our history has been controlled by elites to the extent that the Obama presidency has. With academics like Cass Sunstein and crony capitalists like those backing green energy projects calling the shots, the elite have stepped in, determined to rule in place of the public will.

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