Comments on: Bachmann – ‘Cap and trade’? More like ‘tax and spend’

By: dan

dan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:24:42 +0000

That is BS!!! I’m sick of hearing that crappy is the best we can hope for! That’s the line coming from leadership in the RNC and state party, and is the philospohy that has led to years of back-to-back crushing GOP defeats. I’m losing my mind every time I read or hear some smarmy statement like that! Enough! It’s time for a serious conservative revolution in the party. All these RINO hacks have to go. I’m not going along with “at least I’m not as bad as the other guy” any more. If you aspire to mediocrity, that’s what you’ll get, or worse. We HAVE TO aim higher.

Shoot for the stars and drag your feet in the treetops. That’s better than shooting for the dirt and hitting it!

By: bmetzler

bmetzler — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:55:04 +0000

What can you say? MN loved ethanol. I’d rather have a GOP senator that represented Minnesota by supporting ethanol, than being represented by a DFL senator who supported ethanol. Maybe the ethanol bubble is bursting. We can hope, but until then we’ve got to accept the best MN will vote for, and that mean Senator Coleman and Governor Pawlenty

By: the Lady Logician

the Lady Logician — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:16:35 +0000

Jerry – Norm was indeed a co-sponsor of this pig of a bill!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:28:44 +0000

Jerry you are full of BS.

Here’s the Senator in his own words in a letter about this exact bill.

http://wrightrepublican.blogspot.com/2008/06/norms-response-on-cap-trade.html

I support efforts to address climate change, but not at the expense of American jobs. That is why before joining as a cosponsor to the America’s Climate Security Act (S. 2191), I made clear in a colloquy on the Senate Floor with Senator Lieberman that the final bill produced by the Senate must protect America’s workers and ensure China and India are taking comparable efforts.

You can read the whole thing. Al Gore would be proud. I’m really disappointed that a Republican sounds just like liberal Democrats.

Utter BS spin. Go try that crap somewhere where people don’t use their own brainstems.

Cullen Sheehan refused to answer my question if the Senator was going to vote for this bill 6 times at the State Convention on Thursday evening. I asked it, he changed the subject. He and I have gotten in to it numerous times before over Cap and Trade, and he has never rebutted it when I have said he opposes it.

By: J. Ewing

J. Ewing — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:15:19 +0000

You cannot say Coleman supported this bill, since all he did was vote to debate it, as far as I know. That is his usual approach, and in this case a good choice, since we get to paint Democrats into a corner on this stupid, stupid bill.

The problem is worse than Rep. Bachmann even states. The trouble with the “trade” portion of the bill is that it creates a “market” for a commodity with no intrinsic value– a permit to release CO2– and forces people to buy it. But both the seller and the buyer are going to continue to output the same exact amount of CO2 as they did before the “trade”! There is absolutely nothing done for the environment except to increase the cost of our most plentiful sources of energy, like coal and oil!

And that’s where the “Cap” part comes in. In order to reduce CO2, the government must simply mandate that we all use less energy. After all, if you tell a coal-fired power producer to cut CO2 60%, they will produce 60% less electricity, because it is the only way to cut CO2. That means 60% less energy for running your fridge, air conditioner, and electric space heater (since you won’t be allowed to burn natural gas to heat your home– too much CO2, you know). Naturally, these severe restrictions are going to have a highly negative effect on the economy and your way of life, and all to stave off global temperature increases by SIX DAYS! Yep, that’s it. Whoopee.