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To: Sully- who wrote (34046)	6/15/2010 10:39:33 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

A Small Speech from a Big Office Daniel Foster The Corner I have to admit I was somewhat surprised to see President Obama use his first Oval Office address to repeat populist platitudes about “making BP pay” and hit the bullet points, for the umpteenth time, of the Democrats’ ill-advised cap-and-trade scheme. Oval addresses are best reserved for wars and resignations. There's an added layer of irony here as well. As Planet Gore contributor Chris Horner rehearses at length in his book Power Grab, the prime architect of the cap-and-trade idea was — you guessed it — former BP CEO Lord John Browne. So there is a special kind of cognitive dissonance going on in the juxtaposition of BP bullying and carbon tax cheerleading. More to the point, Obama doesn't have the votes for cap and trade — Byron Dorgan made as much clear today. And even assuming the president has the political capital to get the votes before the end of summer, it would be a kamikaze mission, compounding and then some the Democrats’ midterm losses. Call me naïve, but until the very end I held out hope that Obama would come to his senses and say something like “Yes We Can. . . Nuke the Leak.” .

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