weeklystandard.com - 6/25/2009
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It's a little long for my taste, but given that only 24 percent even know that cap and trade is environmental legislation , Republicans have some explaining to do if they want to build any real resistance to the measure. Add to that the fact that video of Democrats admitting electricity rates ...
youtube.com - 6/25/2009
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In a time of economic uncertainty, when unemployment
is nearing 10% and spending by House Democrats is...
out of control, what is Speaker Pelosi's number one pr...
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Number One Priority (video)
mediamattersaction.org - 6/25/2009
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mediamattersaction.org —
It's June 25, 2009 and Rep. Eric Cantor
is still citing a $3,100 figure for the cost...
of American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) even though the Congressional Budget Office "estimates that the net annual economy wide cost of the cap-and-trade ...
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Cantor Just Won't Give Up
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Cap and Trade = Iraq War?
Hit & Run —
From Michael Goldfarb, a friend from my days at The Weekly Standard: Basically, cap and trade strikes me as the Iraq war of the Democratic domestic policy agenda. It's the overreach moment. It's a massive program that, unlike health care reform, no one is demanding, no one understands, and no one can explain. Cap and trade may be the only thing that can save the Republican party from eight years in the wilderness. A slightly off-kilter source for this insight, but it might actually be right if people start to see price increases ...
Is Anyone Excited About The Waxman Bill?, Ctd.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Michael Goldfarb is: Basically, cap and trade strikes me as the Iraq war of the Democratic domestic policy agenda. It's the overreach moment. It's a massive program that, unlike health care reform, no one is demanding, no one understands, and no one can explain. Cap and ...
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