Committee Dems Reject Job Loss Cap (and what does this say about the party in power?) — MasterResource

Yesterday, on a strict party-line vote (34 Nay, 21 Yea), Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee defeated Rep. Fred Upton’s (R-MI) amendment to protect workers from potential job losses due to the Waxman-Markey legislation.

Joyeux Anniversaire! - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Greg Garrison of Indy's WIBC just brought to my attention that yesterday's announcement — that Americans would finally be forced into driving the cars that Europeans, for their own reasons of envy and pique, demand we drive — came almost precisely a year to the day after then-candidate Barack Obama lectured us that we can't just drive the cars we want (like he does), eat what we want (like he does), and set our thermostats at "orchid" and just have other countries say that's ok. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

Morning Bell: The Waxman-Markey Pay to Play » The Foundry

What does this have to do with the Waxman-Markey cap and trade legislation currently being debated in Congress? Everything. In order to win enough votes to pass cap and trade, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has given the corporate members of the United States Climate Action Partnership (which includes both private and government-controlled firms like General Electric, Duke energy, Chrysler, and General Motors) a front-row seat in writing the legislation. The motives of these major corporations are simple: if they cooperate with big government in drafting the legislation, they can cut deals to protect their bottom line. If they don’t play ball, then big government will just tilt the regulatory scheme in their competitors favor. As the New York Times reports, this is exactly what is happening in the House now: [Via The Chilling Effect]