I will use your own words to bring this back on topic and still make this divergence relevant:
The world is about to ignite yet the people of the most influential country in the world are nowhere to be seen and are suspiciously absent! "Americans, where are you!?"
The answer is that the Obama administration believes that our "foreign policy" should be NO policy. Obama has made it a point to court our enemies and ignore our allies in a naive belief that a world indifferent to us will leave him free to re-cast our economy to favor his agenda.
Key to this agenda are 1) maintenance of power and control, and 2) redistribution of wealth.
He can accomplish both through subversion of the separation of powers and the protection of our Constitutional "checks and balances." He does this through his appointed, non-confirmed "Czars" with virtually unlimited regulatory power.
One result is the imposition of an energy tax through the internal task force described in the OP, which slips in unnoticed and without debate.



