The Warner / Lieberman bill

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We have heard about the odious Warner / Lieberman bill currently in debate -- the one that would make a few people very very rich (Al Gore for one) and would levy a tens of trillions of dollars hit on business over the decade while effectively doing nothing about the climate. It is interesting to see the power behind the bill. From the New York Times:
Senate Opens Debate on Politically Risky Bill Addressing Global Warming
The Senate on Monday opened a raucous debate over climate change legislation even though it will put supporters of the bill, including all three presidential candidates, on the spot � essentially forcing them to come out in favor of high energy costs at a time when American consumers are paying record fuel prices.

While the three candidates are on record favoring legislative action on global warming, the Bush administration opposes a far-reaching bill.

The measure�s sponsors say the nation must take immediate action to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and cut carbon emissions, but many senators in both parties see the legislation as an expensive long-term plan that would do little to solve today�s energy supply and price problems. In fact, the legislation is not expected to pass in the Senate this year.

The debate, which could last all week, will force senators to take a stand on some of the most difficult, expensive and potentially life-altering questions the world will face in coming decades.

And lawmakers on Monday embraced the challenge, voting 74 to 14 in favor of the first of several procedural steps needed to bring the bill to the Senate floor.
What is particularly telling is this photo and caption in the lede:
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Legislation was introduced by, from left, Senators Joseph I. Lieberman, Benjamin L. Cardin, Olympia J. Snowe, Barbara Boxer and John Kerry.
Nothing like having some of the biggest socialists in the Senate backing this piece of shite... Kerry hasn't done an honest days work in his life and Snowe and Boxer are right up there with him. For more information on the true cost of this foolishness, read this book review by Freeman Dyson at the New York Review of Books -- excellent stuff...

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