Friday, April 10, 2009

Waxman-Markey litigation shell game | GlobalWarming.org
...maybe they knew all along that Mass v. EPA created a Pandora’s Box, pretending otherwise gave them another stick to beat Bush with, but now that Obama is in the hot seat, they have to sober up and avoid a politically-damaging regulatory debacle.
OpEdNews » NY Times Climate Change Article: Careless or Deceptive?
The article, "Dissenter on Climate Change Takes Fight to the Web" is careless at best and willfully deceptive at worst for several reasons. First, it keeps open the possibility that its star, a wacko-conservative named Marc Morano (who believes climate change is a myth), actually has a legitimate point. Second it frames his supporters as people like you and I.
Obama's energy policies just nonsense | NewsChief.com | News Chief | Winter Haven, FL
Because Democrats abandoned a plan to use a Senate squelch-the-minority maneuver to pass a disastrous cap-and-trade carbon tax, the idea may be done for this year. But don't give thanks too quickly.

It's far from dead and buried and other disastrous energy policies are being readied for public infliction. Before the Obama administration and its congressional allies are done, we could be reeling from one of the most extraordinary spectacles in American political history - a wholly misguided war against our own self-interests as a people.
globeandmail.com: Blue Dog Democrats growling at climate-change plan
All of this bodes ill for the fortunes of draft climate-change legislation drawn up by Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey. The 600-page bill would impose a cap-and-trade system aimed at reducing emissions 20 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020.

As it now stands, its chances of making it through the House, let alone getting the Senate to pass matching legislation, are not encouraging.

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