Author Christopher Horner has written a new book called Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America, published by Regnery Press.
Horner lives near Charlottesville but works for a Washington-based public-interest group, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he is a senior fellow. A lawyer by training, his previous books include Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism).
In a January 11 interview with the Charlottesville Libertarian Examiner, Horner said Power Grab is “about the latest excuse to impose the statist agenda on the American economy, the latest vehicle to make people live the way that a certain class demands we live. That class says there are too many people – sorry, too many other people – taking up too much space, using too much stuff, with too much liberty.”
Wavering readers
Horner’s intended readers include “all of those who are wavering, those who nod at the cocktail party level,” and say, “'Oh, sure, we have to do something and after all, this is something, therefore we must do this.'”
He wants such people “to start thinking this through,” he said.
“Do they really want people to have the option to reject certain lifestyle choices, or do they want those choices to be moved from the individual to the state? That, frankly, is what this is about.”
During the interview, Horner returned several times to something that then-candidate Barack Obama said during the 2008 presidential campaign: “We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times.”
Horner’s reaction to that? “I don’t know how much plainer it could have been expressed by somebody pushing this reorganization of society.”
Cutting through the clutter
Horner pointed out that “these are senior elected and appointed officials who really believe it is their business, not yours, what you drive, how much you eat, what you eat, and where you keep your thermostat.”
The book, he noted, comes with dust-jacket recommendations from talk show host Mark Levin, Spanish economist Gabriel Calzada, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, and Stephen Moore and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal.
“Even before it came out,” Horner said, Power Grab “got its best reviews. I have to say that there were so many of us writing so much about ‘you have to pay attention to this statement and this evidence.’ There were a lot of us. We may have gotten lost in each others’ arguments.” This book, he says, helps cut through the clutter.
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