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Sheesh of the day: Cantor says removing CO2 a ‘noble endeavor’ « Green Hell Blog

Amid a pretty could floor speech against Waxman-Markey, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) inexplicably said that “removing CO2 from the atmosphere is a noble endeavor.”

God save us from our friends…

EPW POLICY BEAT: SPEAKER PYRRHUS

As House Democratic leaders scramble to find 218 ‘ayes’ for Waxman-Markey, EPW Policy Beat hit the books to find the appropriate historical analogy for today’s (or tomorrow’s) vote. As with the vote on the BTU tax in 1993, Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Waxman likely will achieve victory on their massive energy tax, but by the barest of margins. And in fulfilling their green vision for national energy policy, they could very well imperil the political fortunes of moderate Democrats in conservative and rural districts, and hence, their majority. In other words, the victory will be costly. It will be, in short, a Pyrrhic victory—so named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army, during the Pyrrhic War, suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans in two key battles.

McCotter: W-M ‘nuts on its face’ « Green Hell Blog

Rep. Thadeus McCotter (R-MI) declaimed Waxman-Markey as “nuts on its face.”

Inslee: W-M opponents lack imagination « Green Hell Blog

Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) today said that opponents of Waxman-Markey lack imagination. We went to the moon, why can’t we get off foreign oil, he asked.

Waxman-Markey is Obama photo-op « Green Hell Blog

A Texas congressman said that W-M is no more than a photo-op for Obama in Copenhagen while the Chinese and Indians laugh behind our back.

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