Republicans Edge Ahead of Democrats in 2010 Vote

Over the course of the year, independents' preference for the Republican candidate in their districts has grown, from a 1-point advantage in July to the current 22-point gap.

Senate Committees Take Up Climate Tax , Kerry-Boxer Fiasco Is a Job Killer | CEI

“The Kerry-Boxer bill is within the jurisdiction of the Finance Committee because it is a tax bill. In fact, Kerry-Boxer would be the largest tax increase in world history,” said Myron Ebell, CEI Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy. “While Senators Kerry and Boxer talk about creating clean energy jobs, they fail to mention that raising energy prices will cause many more Americans to lose their jobs. Higher energy prices means that people will have less money to spend on everything else—restaurants, entertainment, travel, clothing, electronics, cars, houses, and food.

“As the Finance Committee takes up Kerry-Boxer, big business special interests are lining up at the trough to grab as many free ration coupons as they can. Consumers will end up paying so that corporations can make hundreds of billions of dollars of windfall profits,” Ebell concluded.

Forum Reflects Copenhagen Divisions - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

If the rest of the globe’s citizens had carbon footprints the size of the average American, Mr. Sun added, the world will “have been already destroyed” by 2020.

But a speaker from Brazil, José Goldemberg, a physicist, professor and former senior Brazilian government official, seemed frustrated with Mr. Sun’s line of reasoning, saying that “the climate conversation is not a conversation on equity.”

“There is much inequity in the world,” Mr. Goldemberg said. “You can’t expect climate legislation to address that.’’

Big news: New poll shows GOP leading Dems in congressional preference ballot | Washington Examiner

'This administration has pulled off an astonishing hat trick -- they have irritated Democrats, alienated independents and energized Republicans," says the Republican National Committee in a statement on the poll released this morning.