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IBD Editorials ^ | July 7, 2009

[Kaslin]

Cap And Trade: Al Gore has likened his crusade against global warming to the world's struggle against Nazis. He said this while speaking in a country that is organizing a team of environmental storm troopers.

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Gore didn't come right out and call global warming skeptics Nazis while addressing an audience at Oxford University in England. But then, he didn't have to. By simply violating Godwin's Law — which essentially says that an argument dies the moment someone makes a comparison to Nazis — in the way he did, Gore labeled anyone who opposes his agenda a fascist.

While the former vice president was delivering his sermon, the British were busy creating a para-police squad that will enforce government-imposed carbon dioxide emissions limits. Take a good look, because the formation of this team could well be a preview of what we'll get if the Democrats' climate change bill becomes law.

So far, the cap-and-trade global warming legislation — known as the Waxman-Markey bill — has been passed only in the House. The Senate still has to take it up, and then a conference committee would write a version that both chambers would agree to vote on should the Senate approve legislation that has differences.

Any bill passed will of course have to be signed by President Obama. But the only question there is not whether he'll sign it but whether he'll turn the event into a circus bigger than Michael Jackson's memorial.

[Kaslin]

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[Kaslin]

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[FlingWingFlyer]

Algore’s problem is that he fails to understand that THEY are the Nazis. Greedy Green ($) Nazis.

[aShepard]

The Senate has supoened bankers, oil execs, auto execs, airline execs and grilled them under their kleig lights.

How about them supoening scientists and global warming freaks to the Senatee chambers to have an informed discussion of global warming before they vote to destroy the US economy with cap and trade.

Before they vote on a bill that no-one will have had a chance to read or understand or analyse.

[Clint Williams]

The American public will sit by, passively lulled by their cars, boats and other distractive toys, until they are thoroughly boiled.

"America" is over and done, and the rights they happily denied others without due process will soon (if not already) be denied them without due process.

America -- a great idea, didn't last.

[liberalism is suicide]

Amazing that anyone takes Gore seriously!

[RoadKingSE]

Gore labeled anyone who opposes his agenda a fascist.

Would your trust your environment to an @$$hole that the Army wouldn't trust with a magazine for his weapon in a combat zone during a war?!

[wny]

Algore’s problem is that he’s an idiot.