Thune Wins Key Cap and Trade Vote

HumanEvents.com ^ | 4/1/2009 | Connie Hair

[Billthedrill]

But what does all that legislative gobbledegook mean?

That they'll still do anything they want and call it something else. And that's all it means.

[SunkenCiv]

Sending a very interesting message to their Democrat counterparts in the House, the Senate yesterday voted to pass -- by a whopping 89-8 margin -- an amendment by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) that would prohibit the collection of funds from any future cap and trade proposal if that proposal would increase electricity rates and gasoline prices for American households and businesses. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 released the results of their study of a proposal similar to President Obama's cap and trade framework. MIT's study concluded that under the "cap and trade" scheme, every American family would face additional energy costs of up to $3,128 by 2015.

Yeah, that's dealing with reality. The only correct course of action would be to dump the cap and trade nonsense on its ass, and classify advocacy for it as hate speech.