Senate to Debate Global Warming Bill This Week

 This week the senate will be debating a bill that would effectively grind the already slowing economy to a dead halt. The global warming initiative bill is up for debate this week and luckily there are still enough Republicans in the senate to filibuster this disastrous bill, and if somehow the bill is passed we still have a president who will veto it. At least for now.

The Senate measure, which has wide Democratic and some Republican support, would cap U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, cutting them by 18 percent by 2020 and by two-thirds by mid-century. It would specifically target refineries, power plants, factories and transportation for 70 percent reductions and make emissions allowances available to be traded in an open market.

 We all know who will pay for the added costs of doing business that will be incurred by all of the above listed BIG BUSINESSES, we will. The American people will.

Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called it “a giant tax on virtually every aspect of the economy,” and accused Democrats of being “laughably out of touch” in taking up the bill when the country is reeling from $4 a gallon gasoline and other high energy costs.

President Bush said at a White House event that the measure amounted to “a huge spending bill fueled by tax increases” and that it “would impose roughly $6 trillion in new costs on the American economy.”

 You read that right, an additional $6 TRILLION, that’s trillion with a “T”, burden on the economy while we are in the midst of an economic slowdown and the mainstream media is hoping for predicting a recession. That sounds like sound fiscal policy, now doesn’t it? NOT!

 So why should we back this horrible idea of a solution for a problem that doesn’t even exist? Or at least is not proven to exist?

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., a chief architect of the 500-page bill, said at a news conference the urgency of taking action against climate change cannot be overstated, declaring, “It’s about our children, about their children, and about the planet we’ve inherited.”

 Oh, yes. The old standby excuse that we must “do it for the children”. The excuse that liberals always use when there is no logic or facts behind their arguments. Who wants to hurt the children? Nobody does so the Democrats do what they do best, play at the heartstrings of Americans.

 When Democrats pull out that old standby line you know that they are losing whatever issue is being debated and this is no exception. Global warming has NOT been proven as fact and certainly not as being man-made. That is why this legislation is being pushed through the senate. This tax increase must be implemented before the American people find out the whole thing is fabricated.

 As I wrote in my opening paragraph, luckily this bill is very unlikely to pass because there are still enough Republicans left in the senate. And in the unlikely chance that the bill does pass, we have a president that will veto it. But this bill is not going to go away.

But supporters of the bill acknowledged it will be difficult — perhaps impossible — to overcome a certain GOP filibuster threat against the legislation, meaning congressional action on global warming will probably be decided in the next Congress and by the next president.

 That is where the bigger problem lies. This bill will come back next year and there in all likelihood will be a senate with an even larger Democrat majority and with a Democrat president. There is no doubt that this bill would pass in that scenario and a President Obama will sign it. Hell, even a President McCain will sign it. This will be one of, if not the first, tax increase to come to the American people next year.

 I am beginning to think that we are fighting a losing battle in holding off some kind of global warming initiative, but the fight must go on. We can’t afford (literally) to lose this battle. Democrats claim to be the party of the little people, the working people, but who will these tax increases hurt the most? The middle class, just as always.