Posted on 06/06/2008 9:04:39 AM PDT by EPW Comm Team
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I love the sound of that phrase!
The ultimate scam of the left...designed for one purpose. Take wealth from industry and individuals. Socialism 101.
Don’t be complacent - this is only the first round. Like many left-wing ideas, the first try is rejected soundly. After a few more years of MSM propoganda, the idea becomes more “mainstream” for the 2nd attempt.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
What scares me is with some tweaking and compromises a majority in the Senate would be onboard.
Jim Inhofe is about the only legitimate reason for this senate. Inhofe is an experienced pilot who managed to land a plane a few years ago after the prop mysteriously fell off.
“The 48-36 vote fell short of a majority, but Democrats produced letters from six senators — including both presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain — saying they would have voted for the measure had they been there.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027105/posts
“Boxer is walking us off a cliff,” another senior Senate Democratic aide said,”
Heh heh I knew she was in trouble when she said that global warming was like leaving kids in a hot car..-) Sick.
Why empty your wallet, which is a one-time event, when they can trick you into thinking you're free (when you're actually their slave)?
I’m with those who say this represented the high-water mark of the Global Warming Confederacy.
This forced the senators of both parties to get a good long look at the devastating economic consequences, as well as the all-around absurdities of trying to legislate CO2.
More to the point: it made it clear that the political consequences to THEM, personally would be catastrophic. That brought the point home. Other articles posted here showed them half-heartedly trying to have weaselly exceptions written into the bill to try and spare their own states industries. But trying to administer such an economic body-blow while americans are already hopping mad about energy and food prices is career suicide for a legislator.
“As I suspected, reality hit the U.S. Senate when the economic facts of this bill were exposed. When faced with the inconvenient truth of the bill’s impact on skyrocketing gas prices, very few Senators were willing to even debate this bill.”
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Leave it to Inhofe to state the case pithily.
Of course they are. Why should they not be, when they were convinced that it is no longer necessary to prove conclusively that a problem exists, before creating a blizzard of laws creating penalties, limiting freedoms, creating new taxes (the "progressive" solution to everything), ruining people's lives and driving the country towards bankruptcy?
It worked with tobacco.
Second hand smoke has created more mindless restrictions on the freedoms of tens of millions, based on a "feeling" that a public health problem exists.
There has been zero debate on the dangers of smoking because, well, the (limited) dangers have been proven and the obvious solution would cut off a huge revenue stream which finances all their pollyanna dingbat schemes.
No such cause and effect were ever proven before the "more taxes' solution were put in place.
"Global warming" is in the same position today. Why should onerous restrictions and taxes be postponed if there might be huge negative consequences if the hysterics are "right"?
“I’m with those who say this represented the high-water mark of the Global Warming Confederacy.”
Dunno. I would bet they go incremental with little outrages.
Pubbies should submit a drilling bill every week until election.
DRILL and REFINE our OWN OIL!!!!
THANK GOD, THANK GOD!!!!!!!
IT’S A HAPPY DAY, A HAPPY DAY INDEED!!!!!!!!!!!
I live in Seattle, and we may be nuts, but not for the reason you offer.
Anyone that trys to light and enjoy a beach fire in a persistent drizzle interspersed with periods of heavy rain in 50 deg weather is truly mentally deficient.
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