Rep. Bachmann: 'Cap-and-Trade' Is Doomed

"We Republicans were trying to sound the alarm on the exorbitant tax increase that this would be with the American people. We were told that we weren’t telling the truth and that we should tap down our remarks. Now we’re finding that we were fully validated and vindicated by seeing that the American people would pay a tremendous increase in taxes and that’s why, I think, this measure is doomed to failure in the United States Senate and when it comes back for a revote in the House,” Bachmann predicted.

Responding to a question about whether some representatives who voted for Waxman-Markey might pay a price in next year’s elections, Bachmann said, "Undoubtedly the American people will make an issue out of this bill. People don’t want to have a new national energy tax. They don’t want the federal government to nationalize energy and take over that industry too. The American people have said enough is enough; we don’t like what you have to sell and I think the Democrats are in for a very rude awakening in November 2010,” Bachmann says.