Oregon: Congressman Schrader’s meeting in Canby

The highly vocal group was almost unanimous in its opposition to the fast-track, high-cost health care, cap and trade, and stimulus bills. Mostly, they stated they opposed big government, massive spending and reduced freedom of choice with a government takeover of health care and concomitant rationing.

Schrader denied any of these things were happening, and will vote the Democratic Party line. He was willing to listen, but appeared resolute in his votes. He said Congress was learning from the Canadian and European models. I guess that’s why those countries are reversing course and going the opposite direction.

Victor Davis Hanson: Government is big enough, thank you - San Jose Mercury News

We typically are not seeing big-government grandees with lifestyles to match their populist rhetoric.

Fourth, it's hard to accept the notion that the government can do things better than the private sector. If the government controls health care, will doctors' waiting rooms soon resemble the dreaded Department of Motor Vehicles offices? Will cap-and-trade bureaucrats daily monitor our life-giving electricity-producing plants to ensure they don't have too large a carbon footprint?

Oberstar climate change vote costs consumers | Bemidji Pioneer | Bemidji, Minnesota

How many more Minnesotans need to lose their jobs or their business? How many more Minnesotans need to lose their homes before Democrats in Washington, like Rep. Jim Oberstar understand that now is not the time for a massive tax increase?

Why a carbon tax is better | COSMOS magazine

THE DECISION TO CREATE an emissions trading scheme in Europe, the U.S. and Australia is more about ideology than reducing carbon dioxide. A carbon tax would be simpler, fairer and cheaper.