Cap and Trade may raise independence on foreign oil
Those evil, heathen bastards at Big Oil, trying to make a profit, are going to go overseas for cheaper materials if we unnaturally raise domestic prices. Of course, that would cost jobs that won’t be counted in the nebulous “created or saved category”.
The government, in an environmental orgasm not seen in decades, has decided that the world ends at the coasts, and that raising price controls won’t affect anything. Or, they think they decided that, seeing as no one has read the MF’ing bill yet, let alone before it narrowly passed in the House.
Let’s get down to brass tacks. This was never about the environment or tax revenue, or the economy. Its another ploy to concentrate power in the hands of the federal government. Liberals want to run your life, and by God, they’re going to do it. It doesn’t matter what campaign promises have to disappear, who gets thrown under the bus, or how many secret lobbyist meetings have to take place. Your life is theirs, cradle to grave.
Remember how 95% of Americans won’t have higher taxes under Obama? Yeah, I guess he was sorta right, because the real number that will is at 100%. The real pot sweetener is that he’s going to injure the economy and our job market in order to do it? Is there really any stronger proof that he’s just looking for power?
The backlash Obama feels in 2010 is going to scare the shit right out of him. There has NEVER been a better motivator of the GOP.
Chris said,
June 29, 2009 at 6:20 pm
“The backlash Obama feels in 2010 is going to scare the shit right out of him.”
All this talk is starting to remind me of the Dems in 1982. They thought that the Republicans would be scared out of their wits by the gains in that election…. but the power didn’t leave the Right until 1992, and even then only for a handful of years.
regulusred said,
June 30, 2009 at 1:23 pm
We’ll see.
Our folks have a long history of showing up to the polls at a high rate. Enrage them for two years, and its going to be something to behold.
I’ll just tell you personally, Chris, my political circles are already making phone calls and canvassing. I just don’t have a single right-wing friend that isn’t fighting mad, and that isn’t likely to change. Hell, even some of my pseudo-left friends are expressing concerns (those are the wobblies, of course).
The problem in 1982 is that Reagan’s policies carried as much support as his personage. Obama’s issues are polling dangerously low, despite his personal rating remaining astonishingly high. I think that’s a major difference.
Chris said,
July 2, 2009 at 8:01 am
Could be a difference, except that Obama’s policies aren’t polling that low at all.
The Left hasn’t stopped cold calling or canvassing. The Obama grass-roots machine has been running since long before he won the election. I don’t think anything the Republicans have will hold a candle to it, quite honestly, but as you said – we’ll see.