Cap and Tax Rises from the Swamp

So, if Lindsay Grahamnesty won't introduce his version of Cap and Tax, Kerry and Liberman will introduce their own. Brain Sussman has the story at the American Thinker entitled Cap and Trade is Back.

Apparently, the Senator feel that enough time has passed, that most people have forgotten about climategate, and the blow to the credibility of climate "scientists" that was delivered. So let me highlight a few points for them:

- The Hockey Stick was proven soundly to have been a complete hoax. Michael Mann is under investigation. Phil Jones of the CRU has been forced to resign, and has made a number of apologies (sort of) since.

- Without the Hockey Stick, anybody can see that it has been much warmer than today, as well as much colder. Within historical times, the Medieval Warm Period was significantly warmer than today, yet the world suffered no catastrophic rise in sea levels, or melting of the polar ice caps.

- I would argue that the Little Ice Age that followed the MWP was more devastating to civilization than the MWP. Populations grew during the MWP. Crops were plentiful, and spread as far as Greenland. When the LIA hit, huge numbers of people starved. I would also ask, what makes people feel that the world wide climate we have today is the ideal climate?

So, if the stated reason is not the real reason, what is the real reason?

The Senate version of Cap and Tax, like the already passed House version (no, David Price, NC 4, I have not forgotten that you voted for that monstrosity), transfers huge sums of money from the middle and lower classes to certain favored parties in the ruling class, such as Al Gore, those wonderful guys at Goldman-Sachs, Franklin Raines and others. Goldman Sachs owns a significant share of the Chicago Climate Exchange, as does Al Gore. So this is nothing more than another demonstration of Crime Inc.

This must be stopped. This bill will drive up energy costs, drive jobs overseas, and make absolutely no difference in "saving the climate." It will further impoverish the middle and lower classes, and send literally trillions of dollars to the moneyed elite.