"Green jobs" is a complete scam
Cap & Trade is a job-killer...but not for government jobs. The Chinese are praying that we will pass this bill - it means jobs for them. Related, via the hard-working Insty:
CAP-AND-TRADE TO LIMP ACROSS THE FINISH LINE IN THE HOUSE? “The Democrats, not having read the bill, were unable to comment.”
It's over 1000 pages of...what?
Related: Climate skepticism goes global
It's 7 inches long, girls - and it tastes good
Mr. Pastor, tear down this church. Please. The building sucks and, trust me, God hates it too.
ObamaCare: Not inevitable. But they feel they have to pass something, or they will lose their momentum for their laundry list. Related: Who will run your medical care if the bill passes? (You can be certain it won't be practicing docs - it will be policy wonks and economists - the same geniuses who invented HMOs.) Related:
The primary problem for Democrats is not stakeholders. It’s the general public. They were told “reform” would leave them alone if they liked their coverage — and their premiums would go down too by $2500 per year. But the bills the Democrats in Congress are now writing will increase costs for people with insurance and shift tens of millions of them out of the employer plans they generally like. That’s not the deal they are expecting to be offered, and they aren’t likely to agree to it anytime soon.
Related: Government medical programs always ration care
Related: If you call everything a crisis, people begin to think the word means "one more issue we ought to think about some time. Viking:
Hysterical hyperbole of the day - Firedoglake: "The gravity of America's health care crisis is the moral equivalent of the 19th Century's bloody conflict over slavery. This is not hyperbole..."
Stop right there. Yes it is.
74% Trust Their Own Economic Judgment More Than Congress'. No kidding.
What's the UN for? To protect states.
Undocumented journalists? There's a future there
When did the US renounce "Leadership of the Free world"? The Left rarely speaks of freedom, or seems to value freedom, except when it's about abortion "choice." Otherwise, standing up for freedom is evil, un-nuanced cultural imperialism, right?
Self-censorship and the "see no Islam" mindset. Brussels J
If you have a few minutes, Sauron himself is but an emissary
Colleges don't graduate enough students? I always thought it was up to the students to graduate. But most college degreea are already a joke.
Markets and pencils.
Feminist Standpoint Theory is a cover for pure political opportunism. Just like Climate Change weather. Nobody really believes this junk.
A jug of water, a loaf of bread, and Thou
The comet that hit us
A lefty mourns his disappointments in Chavez. CSM
On Iran etc, from Ace (I agree with this):
Obama is willing to risk some political capital and credibility, but only on domestic pushes for socialism. The world knows he's a single-minded one-trick pony and views anything that occurs outside the headlong drive for socialism as an inconvenient "distraction" that does not need to be solved, but merely bumped off the front page.
The dictators and terrorists know this. Even US allies in socialistic Europe know this. The only people who don't seem to know this are the US media and the American public, which is largely shielded from these realizations by a severe underreportage of such "distractions."
