A terrible vote : Post-Ed Notes Colorado

On Friday, after Congress passed the Luddite job-killing cap-and-trade bill, I sent congresswoman Betsy Markey — one of the votes that ultimately helped cap and trade pass — an email with two simple questions regarding her “yes” vote.

Not surprisingly, I received no answer.
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Markey, like everyone who voted for this bill, rationalizes support with this relentlessly immature statement: doing something is superior to the cost of doing nothing. Really? Is doing anything better than doing nothing? Do they truly believe it? Was funding the disastrous and economically and environmentally harmful corn-based ethanol industry better than doing nothing? No it wasn’t.

Or do we look at the tradeoffs?

To do that, I guess, you would actually have to read the bill your voting on.

KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'……….. » Blog Archive » Ike Skelton and Cow Farts

He’s worried that the EPA is going to regulate Cow Farts so he voted for legislation that is going to hammer the American People, the People of his district, with increased taxes on electricity, heating and cooking gas, gasoline, food, clothing, and everything else then need for daily survival.

I’ve got a questions? Who is in charge: Congress or the EPA?

Let’s just hope come election time in 2010, the people in Missouri’s 4th District will remember who it was that caused their utility, food, and gas bills to skyrocket…I know I will.

Investor's Business Daily -- Climate Crisis Yet Another Flagrant Con

As one activist group put it: "The task . . . is not to persuade by rational argument." It is "to work in a more shrewd and contemporary way, using subtle techniques of engagement. The 'facts' need to be treated as being so taken-for-granted that they need not be spoken." The strategy is to treat "climate-friendly activity as a brand that can be sold. This is the route to mass behavior change."

If the congressional, administration and activist conspirators behind this deceit were in the private sector — peddling bogus drugs, rather than bogus science — they'd be convicted of fraud. Instead, they'll probably get bonus checks. It's time to tell Congress: No more con jobs and tax hikes.