Obama Administration Trying To Rename Cap And Trade

the business insider ^ | 5/12/09

[FromLori]

How does the "The Clean Energy Divide" sound to you?

The Obama administration is exploring alternative names for cap and trade legislation.

People don't really know what cap and trade means, but they don't like it. So a new name is being concocted to gather support for the legislation.

It doesn't look like the names "carbon tax" or "regressive tax" are in the mix, though. How does "clean energy divide" grab you?

WSJ: Seeking to bolster public support for climate legislation, the Obama administration is consulting pollsters who advocate avoiding phrases such as "cap-and-trade" and "global warming." On Monday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality was scheduled to meet with Robert Perkowitz, president of ecoAmerica, a Washington-based nonprofit that uses "psychographic research" to "shift personal and civic choices of environmentally agnostic Americans," according to its Web site.

"We're trying to give them phrases that work," Mr. Perkowitz said in an interview. He said that in a survey of some 2,000 Americans conducted by his group in March and April, less than half of the respondents said they would support a "cap-and-trade" policy, and that only 24% said they knew what the phrase means. "If you call it 'clean energy dividend'...almost anything other than 'cap and trade,' you'll get people responding a lot more favorably," he said.

[FromLori]

He is a master of deception!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

How ‘bout “TAX and SPEND/WASTE”.

[ClearCase_guy]

How about "That Good Idea That All the Really Good People Like"?

I mean, who would be against it with a name like that?

[Maceman]

I think they already have come up with the perfect name: “Man-caused disaster.”

Come to think of it, I think that is a perfect description of the Obama administration.

[henkster]

by any other name...

[Paladin2]

How about “Zer0bama Tax and Spend”?

[Crawdad]

I kinda like “Anal Rape”.

[Girlene]

How about “Cap and Tax”?

[Nachum]

A good find FromLori!

The list, ping

[Anti-Bubba182]

Whatever name they pick, this will be attacked vigorously.

[FromLori]

lol or Tax and Tax

[Sax]

LOCKHART: "Not While We're Eating--N.V.A. learn marines on a search and destroy mission don't like to be interrupted while eating chow."Search and destroy. Uh, we have a new directive from M.A.F. on this. In the future, in place of"search and destroy," substitute the phrase "sweep and clear." Got it?

JOKER: Got it. Very catchy.

[Sig Sauer P220]

How about Rainbows and Lollipops?

[FromLori]

They rename Swine Flu!

[sickoflibs]

Thanks for the laugh, I know it’s true

[surely_you_jest]

Yet another example of changing the name(s) to protect the guilty. Sort of like Barry Dunham => Barry Obama => Barry Soetoro => Baraq Hussein Obama.

With apologies to the Immortal Bard - What’s in a name? That which we call Zero by any other name would smell as bad.

[yazoo]

How about “All your money belong to us.”

[B Knotts]

The proper term is: Energy Rationing.

[Kakaze]

How about Senator Richard Lugar, of Indiana, registering his black walnut trees......passing farm supplements and creating a market for himself and his family?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Clean Air Redistribution