Get what we deserve

When we elect asshole, anti-capitalist politicians in bed with enviro-nuts, this is what you get.

George Will pulls no punches and calls it like he sees it. Right on target!

One million barrels is what might today be flowing from ANWR if in 1995 President Clinton had not vetoed legislation to permit drilling there. One million barrels produce 27 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel. Seventy-two of today's senators -- including Schumer, of course, and 38 other Democrats, including Barack Obama, and 33 Republicans, including John McCain -- have voted to keep ANWR's estimated 10.4 billion barrels of oil off the market.

So Schumer, according to Schumer, is complicit in taking $10 away from every American who buys 20 gallons of gasoline. "Democracy," said H.L. Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." The common people of New York want Schumer to be their senator, so they should pipe down about gasoline prices, which are a predictable consequence of their political choice.

Also disqualified from complaining are all voters who sent to Washington senators and representatives who have voted to keep ANWR's oil in the ground, and who voted to put 85 percent of America's offshore territory off-limits to drilling. The U.S. Minerals Management Service says that restricted area contains perhaps 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas -- 10 times the oil and 20 times the natural gas Americans use in a year.

Read the rest here.

Reap what you sow.

As for the environmental movement and its latest hobgoblin, global warming, it's all about the destruction of capitalism and the weakening of our country as a result. Why else would they ban us from drilling for OUR OWN OIL? Why else would they whine and cry and sue every time someone wants to build a power plant, an oil refinery (see last post) or dam up a river to produce the energy our economy requires? Why else would they bitch and moan about how Americans use up all the world's resources and how greedy we are when we feed the world and keep it afloat financially. Hurt us economically and the whole world feels it.


This is the only conclusion I can draw here. And there's no compromise with these people. None.

The only thing that will keep them from destroying everything that makes this country great is to beat them. And keep beating them with logical arguments of why their pie-in-the-sky, "solutions" are a dead end.

At least we won this battle.

Apparently three days of debate was enough for what many senators called "the most important issue facing the planet."

With little chance of winning passage of a sweeping 500-page global warming bill, the Senate Democratic leadership is planning to yank the legislation after failing to achieve the 60 vote threshold needed to move the bill to the next stage. After a 48-36 vote on the climate change bill, the Senate is likely to move on to an energy debate next week.

The legislation collapsed for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was the poor timing of debating a bill predicted to increase energy costs while much of the country is focused on $4 a gallon gas. On top of that, a number of industrial state Democrats like Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio were uncomfortable with the strong emissions caps that would have created a new regime of regulations for coal, auto and other manufacturing industries. Republicans, for the most part, held firm against a bill they said would cost billions in regulations while pushing the cost of gas higher. Seven Republicans, mostly moderates, voted for the procedural motion on the legislation while four Democrats voted against it.

But they will try. Again. Gotta hand it to these marxist bastards. They don't quit.

Democrats did not go into the debate expecting passage of the legislation, but they did celebrate a marginal increase in support for the cap and trade system for emissions that was the centerpiece of the bill. Similar legislation in previous years did not even come close to getting 50 votes in the Senate, so Friday morning's vote was a moral victory of sorts. Several senators who missed the vote, including John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, would have voted for the bill, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said on the Senate floor this morning.

The debate in many ways was about setting the stage for a more serious climate change effort under the next presidential administration. While President Bush would have vetoed any cap and trade bill this year, both McCain and Obama back some form of mandatory emissions reduction, so this debate will gain serious traction again next year.

Like the gas prices now? Wait until this cap and trade bullshit goes through. BOHICA, BOHICA, BOHICA. Our economy will be in a shambles and the amount of CO2 (not a pollutant!) will decrease just a tiny tad.

Or less.

But there's a fierce argument over how much the bill would affect the economy. According to a study released by the National Association of Manufacturers earlier this year, Lieberman-Warner would cause 1.8 million job losses, as much as a $210 billion gross domestic product reduction and possibly a 33% increase in electricity prices by 2020.

Read the rest here.

Or read this if you don't believe me.

The bill would not have a detectable impact on the climate. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s own analysis, by 2050 Lieberman-Warner would only lower global CO2 concentrations by less than 1.4% without additional international action.

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Or as Chip said on Animal House:

THANK YOU SIR! MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?