Daily Kos comment: 'If Reid is smart, he will bury this bill. Never try to pass an anti-global warming bill after the coldest year in a decade' | GORE LIED

If Reid is smart, he will bury this bill.

Never try to pass an anti-global warming bill after the coldest year in a decade and never pass a tax increase in the middle of the worst recession in a generation.

The Democrats are going to need every dime of political capital they have to pass health care reform.

Houston Chronicle’s Loren Steffy on Waxman-Markey (can this straight shooter be added to the newspaper’s editorial board?) — MasterResource

Last month, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas released a study that found most Texans would pay about $27 a month more under Obama’s plan. That’s a little more than the cost of “a postage stamp a day” that Obama predicts it will cost, even accounting for the rise in first-class postage.

Waxman-Markey passes with help of 8 traitors

First of all, this may not be a bad thing because it’s a tremendous weapon to use against many Democrats and the 8 Republicans who voted for the bill. (More on that in a minute.)

I think it’s 50/50 whether the bill will even get a vote in the Senate. There’s no chance they’ll get 60 votes for it which means that the Democrats might try using the “reconciliation” process, normally reserved for budget items, which can with 50 votes get a bill passed without the possibility of a filibuster. However, that would be an extremely risky tactic politically and I think they’re not better than even money to be able to round up those 50 votes.

Instead of fulminate about how disastrous this legislation would be were it to come into effect, let me simply say that 219 people just voted for what would be the biggest tax hike in history during our worst recession in many years, and with essentially zero expected improvement in “global warming", the primary stated goal of this monstrosity.