Bloody marvellous Aussies kill carbon emissions bill - Telegraph Blogs

Where Australia leads, we can but hope and pray, the rest of the world will follow - especially Obama’s would-be Socialist One World Government (formerly known as the USA). While it’s true that Nancy Pelosi managed to railroad the Waxman Markey cap’n'porkbarrel’n'trade bill through the US House of Representatives, it looks set to have a much tougher ride in the Senate. Especially given the growing strength of feeling among US voters that cap n trade is no more than a massive scam which will enrich one or two green vested interests - Al Gore’s, for example - while impoverishing ordinary Americans to no useful purpose whatsoever.

Nineteen Minutes In a [Fossil-fueled] Car With Harry Reid

LAS VEGAS – Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, was having second thoughts – or was he? – about the way he had characterized people who are disrupting town halls with "lies, innuendo and rumor," and not letting others speak. They are, he said, "evil-mongers."
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In Washington, there's a sense that the Senate will be disinclined to dive in. Too much to ask after health? I asked Reid. "We're going to try. I think we can get it done," he said. Maybe parts of it? Maybe without cap-and-trade? Reid didn't answer directly. Instead he said that five committees are working on energy and compromises are inevitable. He is committed, he said, to "major energy legislation." Whatever that may be.