Cap and trade/bait and switch…what’s the diff?
More cheery news today from the WSJ where we learn that,
Americans should know that those Members who vote for this climate bill are voting for what is likely to be the biggest tax in American history
But they’ve read the bill, right? From Henry Waxman co-author of the bill known generally as Waxman-Markey, but on this house as Waxman-Ma[la]rkey,
WAXMAN: I certainly don’t claim to know everything that’s in this bill. I know that we left it to — uh, uh, we, we relied very heavily on the scientists, on the IPCC and others and the consensus that they have that there is a problem of, uh, uh, global warming
Well, so long as we have a consensus we won’t be needing any of those pesky facts. He also said this,
“I don’t have to read it. I just have to vote for it.”
Surely all those professional congresscritters will read the whole thing. Remember the stimulus bill? It was so direly important that not one person read it before rushing it through, whereupon the Fresh Prez of Bill Ayers left it languishing on his desk for 3 days while he went shopping in Chi-town with Mrs O. Some emergency, huh? Nope, no time. It’s another dire emergency.
The foundation points out that while the bill, formally called the American Clean Energy and Security Act, was 946 pages long last week, it has ballooned to 1,201 pages in recent days with little explanation for how or why
Thank God the whole process has been open and above board though. Except for this blaring headline from the Washington Examiner,
EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study, CEI Says
But Barry said his administration would be all about openness and transparency. The only thing that is transparent is his motive to destroy this country, and its economy, as quickly as possible before his true aspirations for the USA are revealed. Which I predict will occur by September and will render him a lame duck for the remaining three years of his single term presidency. From the article,
“This suppression of valid science for political reasons is beyond belief,” said CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman. “EPA’s conduct is even more outlandish because it flies in the face of the president’s widely-touted claim that ‘the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over.’
At least we will have all those “green” jobs just like those brave Spaniards who forged this trail ahead of us, won’t we? I’ll let Hot Air answer that one, where we will discover,
that they often are temporary and have received $752,000 to $800,000 each in subsidies — wind industry jobs cost even more, $1.4 million each. And each new job entails the loss of 2.2 other jobs that are either lost or not created
At least the world will be a cleaner, less polluted place to raise our chilluns, won’t it? Not so much. From an excellent article by Belfer.
In my judgment, the proposed cap-and-trade system would be a costly policy that would penalize Americans with little effect on global warming.
So we got that going for us, then!
Michelle Malkin has the latest.
June 25, 2009
Tags: Cap and trade, Waxman-Markey Posted in: Global warming
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