The Cap and Tax Fiction - WSJ.com

The reality is that cost estimates for climate legislation are as unreliable as the models predicting climate change. What comes out of the computer is a function of what politicians type in. A better indicator might be what other countries are already experiencing. Britain's Taxpayer Alliance estimates the average family there is paying nearly $1,300 a year in green taxes for carbon-cutting programs in effect only a few years.

Americans should know that those Members who vote for this climate bill are voting for what is likely to be the biggest tax in American history. Even Democrats can't repeal that reality.

ABC, GOP spar over Obama coverage - Washington Times

The town hall meeting came a day after Mr. Obama held a news conference to boost his faltering domestic agenda of combating global warming and overhauling health care, and to answer critics who said he hadn't been tough enough in responding to postelection violence in Iran.

House swing votes stay mum on climate [fraud] bill | Grist

Of the 31 lawmakers who form the statistical center of the House on climate change (according to research by two economists), only eight have given clear indication that they will vote for the Waxman-Markey energy bill. And that’s assuming House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) gets his committee members to follow his lead in supporting the bill, as he says they will.

Another eight lawmakers appear set on opposing the bill, while the remaining 15 have not publicly indicated how they are leaning. If and when Waxman-Markey receives a vote (currently expected this Friday), this group could well determine whether the bill passes.