Blue Dog Dem Getting Fed Up | GlobalWarming.org

“This bill is to the left of Barack Obama,” [Arkansas Democratic Rep. Mike] Ross said, adding that it could get worse during the final mark up.

That said, he predicts the controversial legislation will clear the committee and pass the full House, although without his support. And then he believes the legislation will go to the U.S. Senate and die.

The Center for Political Cover | GlobalWarming.org

The Left is clearly terrified that their global warming con is sinking fast. Every new poll that’s come out this year on global warming and raising energy taxes shows more skepticism from Americans than the previous one. Environmental socialism, indeed.

Transcript: The biggest and worst - FP Comment

Statement by Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute director of Energy and Global Warming Policy, on the 900-page Congressional plan — advanced by Senator Henry Waxmawn and Congressman Ed Markey, to impose cap-and-trade carbon emission controls on the U.S. economy:

The Waxman-Markey bill would set many records: the biggest tax increase in history; the biggest government intervention in people’s lives since the Second World War; the biggest transfer of wealth from consumers to special interests in American history; and the biggest opportunity for corruption and manipulation by Wall Street traders ever created. It would cause consumer energy prices to go up relentlessly for decades, create some jobs while destroying millions of jobs, and produce perpetual economic stagnation.