Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: Naughty Conservatives Shouldn't Mind Votes for Waxman-Markey (Or So We're Told)

In an error-riddled column posted Wednesday on TownHall.com, the supposedly conservative Michael Gerson has a novel take on the Republican Congressmen who voted for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill: He blames conservatives for minding.
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I could go on, but there's really no need. I linked to the version of this column on TownHall with comments. The column is impossible to appreciate, but some of the comments are superlative.

Canada: The Carbon Tax We Never Voted For « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

But the biggest fear is probably the most valid one. Any cap and trade system that drives out energy-intensive industries from North America to developing nations could devastate our economy and our workforce. As Shawn McCarthy writes in the Globe and Mail, such moves would lose jobs, “while doing nothing to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.”

And that’s the crux of meaningless populist policies, isn’t it? Doing something that seems like the right thing to do at the time, whilst not recognizing the devastating Law of Unintended Consequences behind it.

As the climate scam collapses, Senator Sherrod Brown not only claims that there is a consensus, but that it's growing

A growing consensus of scientists agree that human activities are contributing to rising sea levels, extreme weather, and climate change across the globe. As the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States has a clear obligation to be at the forefront of climate change policy. Without action, we risk our health and the health of future generations, the well-being of our coastal areas, and the productivity of our farms, forests, and fisheries.
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Sherrod Brown
United States Senator