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So what exactly was Kerry talking about? Only Kerry knows, but his hyperbole seems to have an inverse relationship with the odds of passing a cap-and-trade bill in the Senate. Even Russ Feingold isn’t buying Waxman-Markey and its redistributionist tendencies, and red-state Democrats like Ben Nelson and Evan Bayh aren’t going to commit electoral suicide by killing their state economies. Coal-state Democrats such as Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd won’t toss their coal-mining voters under the bus just to satisfy Barbara Boxer and Kerry, and so Kerry wants to make this sound like impending disaster.

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BTW, the next source I talk with who thinks cap-and-trade has a chance in 2010 will be the first who tells me that .... [Via Planet Gore]

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In Pictures: The Big Labor Takeover of Big Government » The Foundry

As we reported last week, 2009 will mark the first time ever in American history that the majority of union members work for federal, state, or local governments. The percentage shift has been staggering. In 1973 only 17.3% of union members worked for government. Today that number is 51.2%.

When unions depended on steel plants, coal mines, and automobile factories for their livelihood there was at least a chance that they would support some pro-growth public policies. But now that unions are dependent on the government, and not the private sector, for their membership dues pro-growth policies are not a priority at all. Hence the Big Labor/enviro alliance behind carbon cap and trade tax programs.