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Posted at 8:30am on Jun. 6, 2008 The Global Warming Bill is an Economy Killer in Green Camouflage

By Erick

Wired is not known for being anything other than a liberally oriented magazine. It is extremely environmentally conscientious. The June 2008 issue has a whole section on global warming, including this tidbit:

The awful truth is that some amount of climate change is a foregone conclusion. The Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, calculates that even if the U.S., Europe, and Japan turned off every power plant and mothballed every car today, atmospheric CO₂ would still climb from the current 380 parts per million to a perilous 450 ppm by 2070, thanks to contributions from China and India.

Undeterred, Harry Reid and the Democrats have decided to grind our economy to a halt to "solve" a problem the congress cannot solve even if the "turned off every power plant and mothballed every car today."

Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky argued that the bill's "cap and trade" approach to cutting carbon dioxide emissions would unleash "the largest restructuring of the American economy since the New Deal."

"It's a huge tax increase," he proclaimed even as the bill's supporters argued it actually would provide tax breaks for people who faced higher energy costs, and financial assistance to carbon intensive industries through a pollution allowance trading system.

Babs Boxer claims there will be no increase in gas prices, but she is lying. While the legislation does not mandate the price of gas increase, it does require such costly changes to the service station industry, the oil and gas industries, and elsewhere that the price will absolutely go up. And Barbara Boxer knows it.

There are things that can be done. We could be fostering an environment for technological changes. We could be encouraging nuclear energy. We are, in fact, doing nothing. This bill is nothing more than legislation designed to ruin our economy so government can insert itself further into business. The camouflage on the bill just happens to be green.

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Posted at 3:16am on Nov. 3, 2007 Arnold Schwarzenegger: Team Player

By Neil Stevens

A recent Field Poll shows Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger virtually tied with Senator Barbara Boxer 44-43, were he to run against her in 2010. But the good Governor is a team player, oh yes. He will not run against her, according to a Sacramento Bee report:

Despite a Field Poll this week showing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a virtual tie with Sen. Barbara Boxer if he were to run for her seat in 2010, the Republican governor said Friday he has "no interest in that at all" during an appearance at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.

Schwarzenegger joked that he was fine with the growing speculation about what he would do after he is forced to leave the Governor's Office in January 2011, implying that the rumors have been fueled by a desire by Boxer to raise money.

"This way she can raise more money when she says, 'That Schwarzenschnitzel, he's after me, he's after me, oh my god, we've got to raise a lot of money!'" Schwarzenegger said. "That's what this is all about. So, no, I have really no interest in that at all."

Boxer is a terrible Senator, she being the one who even bought into the Diebold conspiracy theories, and challenged Ohio's electoral votes after the 2004 election. And yet the team playing Schwarzenegger will not challenge her.

Oh, did you think I meant he was playing for the Republican team? Oh my, no. That's not his team at all, and here we see yet more proof of that.

He won't challenge a vulnerable Democrat, but he's sure interested in trying to bring "health care reform" to California, calling the legislature into a special session to try to force the Democrats to pass such a bill. He even wants the Democrat-controlled body's approval ratings to go up. What a team player indeed!

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