Obama Favorability Falls Below Bush's At Same Point In Presidency - HUMAN EVENTS

And it doesn’t help that the public has, by now, heard about the new cap-and-trade tax that was slipped into a bill and rammed through without many of the seatwarmers in Washington having even bothered to read the thing.

William Hunt -- Eco-'nuttery' and Global Warming Overreaches

To give an idea of how silly this is, if the idea of taxing cow burps and cow plops is not silly enough, let’s compare some numbers. According to various sources, there are roughly a billion cows in the world, used for milk, meat and religion (India). The U.S. has approximately a tenth of them with less than one hundred million head. If methane from cows were a problem, what about the other 90% of the cows?

Liberal schemes will lower standard of living | INFORUM | Fargo, ND

Congressman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., defends his vote in favor of the cap-and-trade bill in the U.S. House of Representatives by implying that he is doing the best he can to defend us from his fellow Democrats.

That argument makes some sense, considering that many of his fellow Democrats are some of the most radical leftists who have ever walked the halls of Congress.

Duke Energy Elbows Co-ops for Carbon Permits in Climate [Swindle] - Bloomberg.com

“There was quite a bit of correlation of votes and where that money is going to move to and where it’s going to come from,” said Steve Winberg, vice president of research and development at Consol Energy Inc., the second-largest holder of coal reserves in the U.S. and an opponent of the climate measure.