Steel-Mill Wind-Turbines Show Obama’s Right or Chases ‘Fantasy’ - Bloomberg.com

Skeptics such as David Kreutzer, an energy economics analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, say Obama will be hard-pressed to meet his target and that green energy won’t come close to offsetting jobs lost in manufacturing and “old- energy” pursuits like coal mining.

An economy built on so-called green jobs is “an appealing fantasy” divorced from reality, said Kreutzer, whose organization favors a limited role for government. The nation’s unemployment rate “has much deeper roots than can be solved by installing a solar panel,” he said.

Obama, Democrats Suffer Major Defeat As Cap-And-Trade Fast Track Gets Axed | KXNet.com North Dakota News

Obama and certain Senate allies like Senator Kent Conrad have been working behind the scenes in Washington DC to set up a “fast track” process to ram-rod massive, sweeping policy changes like cap and trade and nationalized health care through the Senate by inserting it into the budget reconciliation process and by-passing the filibuster. Now it appears as though those efforts have, rightfully, been defeated.

Lorne Gunter was right; Al Gore, uh, maybe not - Full Comment

In case you missed it, here is a Canwest news story that validates what National Post columnist Lorne Gunter has been saying all along:

Climate change not all man-made, report says

Pelosi vows global warming [scam] bill by 2010 - Patrick O'Connor - POLITICO.com

Pelosi, who refers to climate-change as "the flagship issue" of her speakership, said the political dynamics in the Senate won't impact her decision to move legislation in the House -- even though her own moderate members have expressed apprehension about passing a bill if the Senate doesn't act. House moderates are particularly concerned that being forced to vote on a major global warming bill that has no chance in the Senate, since that vote may hurt them politically in conservative districts.
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If she can't wrangle the votes for a cap-and-trade measure, Pelosi and her leadership team might have to defer to a carbon tax. On Thursday, the speaker, who has advocated a cap-and-trade program in the past, wouldn't commit to either proposal, saying only, "We're having very productive discussions."