WSJ: Boucher’s Cap-and-Trade is Deadly
By Ward Smythe | Friday, October 8th, 2010 | Politics
According to the Wall Street Journal, 9th District Congressman Rick Boucher’s support of Cap-and-Trade is deadly. And it’s the reason he shouldn’t be sent back to Congress.
Mr. Boucher felt so invulnerable that last year he made the mindboggling decision to join with green purists to craft the cap-and-trade dagger aimed at his own district—home to thousands of coal jobs. He is a powerful member on the House Energy Committee, and his support helped pull along other reluctant Democrats, earning him a shout out from the White House. It also earned him a target on his back.
The Cap-and-Trade Crackup
A Virginia Democrat with a ‘safe’ seat angers constituents with his anti-coal vote.
The Wall Street Journal
For 28 years, Boucher has cozied up to the coal industry and been very successful with constituent services, making him vitually unbeatable. Then last time around, thinking he was safe, he showed his true feelings by supporting the job killing Cap-and-Trade.
When the Republican wave of November 2nd finally washes out Nancy Pelosi’s swamp, will Boucher be caught up in the current?
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5 Responses to "WSJ: Boucher’s Cap-and-Trade is Deadly"
duh. this bill isn’t just anti-coal, it is a job killer through out all business sectors. when the price of electricity “skyrockets” due to this bill (Obama’s words, not mine), no one will be able to afford employees. Not even pizza parlors will be able to run the electricity-sucking pizza ovens unless they charge $100 per pizza. (now that hits you where it hurts, huh?).
and don’t blame just Boucher. Perriello voted for this, too.
I hope Boucher and Perriello find out that if you vote against the wishes of the people in your district you will find yourself unemployed.
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‘Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life’
Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society.
Despite holding such prestigious positions including having been Chairman and former member Defense Science Board (DSB) as well as Chairman of both the Technology panel and DSB’s study on Nuclear Winter, Lewis appears to have fallen out of favor with the bulk of the US press because of his ‘renegade’ climate views.
“It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100058265/us-physics-professor-global-warming-is-the-greatest-and-most-successful-pseudoscientific-fraud-i-have-seen-in-my-long-life/
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