Cap and Trade is
a lot like what we used to call Search and Destroy, with the emphasis
on destroy because that is exactly the effect it would have on our
already staggering economy.
Americans, having had a severe gut check behind His Imminence Barack
the First’s proposed fiscal nightmares, are telegraphing Congress that
it better have as much chance of passing as the proverbial snowball in
hell…or else.
Representatives, that hung it all in the wind for Obama, Pelosi and
Reid on the House’s bare passage of the health care bill, are having
buyers regret now that the steaming mad public whiplash is being felt.
Serious challenges are being mounted in all marginal Democratic
districts as we speak and in many that are not.
The triumvirate of the the Obama administration’s dream list is the
health care theft of 1/6 of the US economy; the cap and tax bone
crusher of American jobs, American industry, American families; and the
AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS bill, which is even now being worked on by
both Democrats and Republicans who, by the way, should be targeted to
be voted out of office as well. That’s another story.
The Health Care issue is on life support over in the Senate and
unlikely to emerge any time soon, if at all. Harry Reid may try for the
‘nuclear’ option on it by sending it to budget reconciliation, which
would require only 51 votes. Democrats rightly fear that this measure
would create a political backlash that most are unwilling to face in
2010.
Cap and Trade, the second pillar of the Obama drive to force
socialization upon the American people, is ‘on the back burner’ for now
for much the same reason. Lawmakers are beginning to understand that
the STAGGERING cost to the economy and the American people is a price
that cannot be born…hence another potential tidal wave of political
mayhem. The surest indication of this is the announcement from the
Copenhagen committee that there ‘will be no legally binding treaty’ at
the ‘climate’ summit.
What that means, by the way, is that without the co-operation of the
United States of America the economics of the whole thing just won’t
work. It’s the same reason KYOTO didn’t work…no US to bleed dry.
Without India and China and with the EU faltering, it turns the
upcoming Copenhagen conference into so much hot air and the chief
source of that hot gas will be Barack Obama.
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
© Skip MacLure 2009