Remember the Stimulus? Over a thousand pages and almost a trillion dollars?
The whole scenario is being repeated this summer, with Cap and Trade. Apparently the Won has proclaimed that he wants a vote in the House by Friday (and in the Senate two weeks later). And what the messiah wants, the messiah gets. So far.
As pointed out to me by Rick Richman, the New York Times doesn't even mention any arguments of the opposition, much less evaluate them. Obama's propaganda, meanwhile, is "printed verbatim, without even scare quotes."
Mr. Obama also used the news conference to promote two domestic priorities, an energy bill intended to reduce the emissions that fuel climate change and an overhaul of the nation’s the health care system. He argued that the two plans, each of which would introduce dramatic changes to wide swaths of the American economy, would transform the nation for a better future and insisted that each would be paid for without adding to the skyrocketing federal budget deficit.
His endorsement of the energy bill set for a vote in the House on Friday represented his most explicit and full-throated pitch for the approach, which was crafted by influential Democratic lawmakers and intended to help push it past opposition.
"Push it past" is right. Dhimmedia is leading the Left's new mantra: Don't ask, don't tell. Don't ask what the implications will be, don't tell about the job losses. Don't ask how it works, don't tell who will suffer. Don't ask what other ideas there might be, don't tell about any opposition.
And never mind the Congressional Budget Office:
■ The cost of the allowances.
The cost of acquiring allowances would become a cost of doing business. In most cases, the firms required to hold the allowances would not bear that cost; rather, they would pass it onto their customers in the form of higher prices.
■ The cost of both domestic and international offset credits.
Like the cost for allowances, the cost of acquiring offset credits would be passed on by firms to their customers in the form of higher prices.
And in the Utter Madness category, the CBO tells us that
H.R. 2454 would direct the federal government to spend 7 percent of the allowance value overseas, funding efforts to prevent deforestation in developing countries, to encourage the adoption of more efficient technologies, and to assist developing countries in adapting to climate change.
Doesn't this remind you of Stop Making Sense? Funny, that was a "Talking Heads" movie. Came out in 1984. How perfectly prophetic... dystopian... Orwellian... and fitting.... all at the same time.
