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In this weekend's Republican address, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels blasted President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi for supporting cap and trade:
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"It's become clear that the Pelosi bill has little to do with a cooler planet and everything to do with raising money for the out-of-control federal spending now underway in Washington," said Daniels. "Please excuse us Midwesterners for feeling a bit like the targets of an imperialistic policy, devised in places like California, New York, and Massachusetts for their benefit, at our expense."
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Barack and Michelle Obama Headed Out For New York Date Tonight [to hold down the very rising of the seas, they are traveling via foot or bicycle, am I right?]
President Obama and the First Lady are headed to New York for a date tonight to go to a Broadway play, the critically-acclaimed show "Joe Turner's Come and Gone."

Don't Believe the Climate Bill Doomsayers: [Remember, trace amounts of natural atmospheric gas ARE extremely dangerous, and it's SENSIBLE to cough up $45 trillion over the greatest scientific fraud of all time]

Aesop got it wrong. In "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," the townsfolk stopped believing repeated false alarms of danger. But in real life, we seem to jump time after time at the same shrill cries.

The alarmists, again, are entrenched industry and the well-heeled national Chamber of Commerce warning of the dangers of tougher energy and environmental regulations. Rather than join forward-thinking business leaders in meeting our challenges, these special interests fall back on their old refrain that tougher regulations will hurt business and thus the country.
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Mindy S. Lubber is president of Ceres, a leading coalition of investors, environmental groups and other public interest organizations working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change. For more information, visit www.ceres.org