Waxman-Markey pre-vote count… « Green Hell Blog

Waxman-markey pre-liminary head-count as of Thursday afternoon (courtesy Myron Ebell):

218 needed to win…

You Can Go Green: The Eco-Cult Controversy - Global Warming Fantasies and the Eco-Cult of True Believers!

That utter gibberish such as man-made climate change is even called news says a lot about the mentality of our socialist-liberal culture. It gets really tiring trying to talk sense to eco-fascist pagans that are blinded by hate for modernity; can’t stand the thought of market based economics; and faint at the mention of the words ‘freedom’; ‘individuality’; ‘technological progress’; and tear out their hair if you tell them that our environment in all areas excepting the oceans, is in better shape and cleaner than at any time in history. The eco-fascists and Al Gore-lovers want nothing more than to manage the world; micro-manage society; destroy the modern industrial and technological processes that ensure a cleaner environment; and increase tax, regulation and bureaucratic hiring. None of these options is intelligent or necessary.

Dirty Jobs - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The kicker is that no one even dares to say anymore that Waxman-Markey would reduce emissions. (Wasn't that the original purpose?) Any chance of that was given away with the ration cards that were handed out to well-represented lobbying interests, so that they could sell them to poor saps who didn't lobby-up quite so well. And globally, emissions will rise because those jobs that might have been ours will flee to poorer countries with less batty environmental standards than rich countries have. Those poor countries might have unenlightened environmental regulations, but they will have those precious — and, apparently to the Obama EPA, unsavory — jobs.