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To: RetiredNow who wrote (10431)	7/2/2009 12:38:30 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 86360

DUNCE CAP "Facts. Costs. Consequences. "Who cares? "We're in the middle of pretending to save the planet, baby," Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi writes. "If it's about helping 'the environment,' suspend reason and salvation is yours. As I'm sure you've heard a lot of smart and compassionate folks tell you lately, doing something - anything! - is better than doing nothing. "So the House did something. It passed a 'cap and trade' bill that would ration energy, destroy productive jobs, levy the largest tax increase in United States history and, for kicks, penalize foreign trade partners who fail to engage in comparable economic suicide," Mr. Harsanyi said. "Now, assuming there are no speed-reading clairvoyants in the House, no one who voted for the 1,200-page bill - plus the 300-page amendment dropped the morning of the vote - possibly could have read it. "And any scum-sucking scoundrel who points out that 'doing nothing' already includes spending billions on renewable energies and living under thousands of regulations is, as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman shrewdly noted, a traitor to humankind. "Speaking of doing nothing: Though it has the potential to stagnate the economy, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, according to the Environmental Protection Agency itself, would not create any reductions in emissions by 2020. The piddling impact of the bill is documented across the ideological spectrum."