It Won't Crush The Economy (Now) You Scaremonger!

The EPA is being used as a way for the watermelons to carry their agenda forward in spite of popular opposition, and in the face of science which says they are silly at best. They are going to regulate the very gas you breathe out of your lungs as a pollutant. EVERYTHING that anyone does, makes this gas be emitted more and more. So of course it is a thing to slap a tax on, and the Democrats are all over it.

Reading articles from Yahoo News is an exercise in finding out what the leftists in the press are trying to sell you . . . but they push headlines when I go to check my e-mail, so I do it sometimes anyway. This article is a sterling example. You have already figured out that CO₂ is not the bogeyman they told you it was, so CO₂ is never once mentioned, even though it is the main subject matter. Then, after most of you stopped reading already, they go on to say that critics say the new EPA rules will (to paraphrase) crush the economy. The closing sentence of the article is some petty tyrant in the Obama administration saying "Nyuh-uh! It won't hurt anyone even a little tiny bit, we exempted some businesses for a few years!" as if you should be reassured by this.

Hot Air has a bit more-insightful analysis.

This is not entirely unprecedented behaviour, although the last time I can think of, it was much more political than it was a power-grab. President Clinton's EPA had some rules on Mercury that were impossible, enacted. They were passed literally in the closing days of his Presidency because their only purpose was to make Bush look bad when he repealed them. Bush repealed them. Bush was derided as an environment hater, as intended. That was politics. This is much worse. In this, they want a hand in your throat AND your wallet. It will take some serious politicking to get rid of this mess.

The only good news is, they couldn't even muster 60 votes for an EPA rule change amendment. This is (should be?) the death knell for Obama's Cap and Trade legislation, but the Democrats will probably try to cram it through anyway.