As Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) prepare to introduce their long-delayed energy-rationing legislation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute calls on Americans to remember what is really at stake: government control over energy use and massive kickbacks to favored corporations.
“The bill crafted by Kerry and Lieberman – and sometimes Lindsey Graham (R-SC) – manages to have something to harm everyone except big business special interests,” said Competitive Enterprise Institute Director of Energy Policy Myron Ebell. “Environmentalists know it will have no discernible impact on the climate, but it will reward favored companies with massive windfall profits.”
Senator Kerry has admitted that the bill was written in close consultation with the companies and industries to be regulated, including the Edison Electric Institute and major oil companies. Kerry recently remarked “Ironically, we’ve been working very closely with some of these oil companies in the last months,” referring to BP, Conoco Phillips, and Shell. This process could only be considered “ironic” by someone unacquainted with the history of special interest lobbying in Washington, D.C.
“Cap and trade regulation, far from disciplining the energy sector, is poised to become one of the greatest wealth transfers from consumers to private corporations in the nation’s history,” said Ebell. “General Electric, Exelon, BP, Goldman Sachs, and Duke Energy will make out like bandits because of provisions they have written. That’s not democracy or capitalism. It’s political corruption and crony capitalism.”
As public awareness of what cap and trade would cost American consumers has grown, the bill’s sponsors have responded not by amending their proposals, but by trying to fool the public with shifting terminology. Senator Kerry at one point renamed gasoline taxes “linked fees.” Sen. Lieberman remarked in April he was dropping the phrase “cap and trade” in favor of “emissions reduction targets,” going so far as to joke about the in-name-only difference by asking a reporter “Remember the Artist Previously Known as Prince?”
“Lieberman is not the only one playing word games,” said CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis. On-again, off-again co-sponsor Lindsey Graham recently said in an interview that he no longer considers the Kerry-Lieberman legislation either a cap-and-trade bill or a global warming bill because “There is no bipartisan support for a cap-and-trade bill based on global warming.”
“So, because climate alarm and cap-and-tax are no longer polling well, Graham now pretends he can change the bill’s nature simply by rebranding it. I’ve got news for these guys,” said Lewis. “Everybody knew it was Prince even before the Artist Formerly Known As changed his name back to plain old Prince. An energy tax by any other name is just as foul.”
Showing posts with label John Kerry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Kerry. Show all posts
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Who said, "global warming as a reason to pass legislation doesn't exist any more?"
So about two weeks ago Sen. John Kerry, a lead author of the looming Kerry-Graham-Lieberman global warming/cap-and-trade legislation said about his bill, to disassociate from Earth Day loopiness: This is not an environment bill.
No kidding. No one on the planet claims it would change the climate in any way our most sophisticated instrumentation could discern. It's about power. Hence the title of books like "Power Grab".
Today we read in E&E Daily, from another co-sponsor Sen. Lindsey Graham: "It's not a global warming bill to me. Because global warming as a reason to pass legislation doesn't exist anymore. "
Oddly, both remarkable statements have been ignored by the establishment press, slavish as they are to also seeing this agenda through to the end because, as Sen. Tim Wirth said in 1988 and Barack Obama in his 2010 State of the Union address, even if you don't buy the excuse their agenda is still "the right thing to do."
As I have been saying for some time and just published a book making the case: the issue is not the issue. The global warming then climate change then, uh, it's jobs, that's it, jobs, or maybe national security or...I dunno, what appeals to you? ... agenda for promoting the energy-scarcity list of mandates, wealth transfers and lifestyle restrictions were just excuses for doing what these people have long insisted they , as your betters, be able to do to you.
Get this reality now, or wake up one day and wonder why you didn't before it was too late.
No kidding. No one on the planet claims it would change the climate in any way our most sophisticated instrumentation could discern. It's about power. Hence the title of books like "Power Grab".
Today we read in E&E Daily, from another co-sponsor Sen. Lindsey Graham: "It's not a global warming bill to me. Because global warming as a reason to pass legislation doesn't exist anymore. "
Oddly, both remarkable statements have been ignored by the establishment press, slavish as they are to also seeing this agenda through to the end because, as Sen. Tim Wirth said in 1988 and Barack Obama in his 2010 State of the Union address, even if you don't buy the excuse their agenda is still "the right thing to do."
As I have been saying for some time and just published a book making the case: the issue is not the issue. The global warming then climate change then, uh, it's jobs, that's it, jobs, or maybe national security or...I dunno, what appeals to you? ... agenda for promoting the energy-scarcity list of mandates, wealth transfers and lifestyle restrictions were just excuses for doing what these people have long insisted they , as your betters, be able to do to you.
Get this reality now, or wake up one day and wonder why you didn't before it was too late.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sun claims win after powerhouse cap-trade coalition - Kerry, Graham, Lieberman - melts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Monday's unveiling of a compromise Senate climate bill was postponed on Saturday, Democratic Senator John Kerry said, after a dispute arose over unrelated immigration reform legislation.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said earlier on Saturday he would have to pull out of the bipartisan climate change effort because of concerns Democrats would push forward with a debate on immigration reform, rather than the climate change bill, in the Senate.
Kerry said he hoped to keep working for passage of a climate bill.
He said that after more than six months of detailed meetings with Graham and independent Senator Joseph Lieberman, "we believe that we had reached" an agreement on the details of a bill to reduce smokestack emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases associated with global warming.
They were planning to outline those details at a news conference on Monday that would have been attended by some environmental and industry representatives.
"But regrettably, external issues have arisen that force us to postpone only temporarily" the Senate's work on the climate bill that also would have expanded U.S. nuclear power generation and offshore oil drilling.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said earlier on Saturday he would have to pull out of the bipartisan climate change effort because of concerns Democrats would push forward with a debate on immigration reform, rather than the climate change bill, in the Senate.
Kerry said he hoped to keep working for passage of a climate bill.
He said that after more than six months of detailed meetings with Graham and independent Senator Joseph Lieberman, "we believe that we had reached" an agreement on the details of a bill to reduce smokestack emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases associated with global warming.
They were planning to outline those details at a news conference on Monday that would have been attended by some environmental and industry representatives.
"But regrettably, external issues have arisen that force us to postpone only temporarily" the Senate's work on the climate bill that also would have expanded U.S. nuclear power generation and offshore oil drilling.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Big Dem donor stole $292 million from banks
A once-wealthy businessman and prominent donor to Democratic candidates pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing hundreds of millions of dollars to buy property in Westchester County, donate to charity and give money to political campaigns.
“I am deeply ashamed of my conduct,” the man, Hassan Nemazee, 60, told Judge Sidney H. Stein in Federal District Court in Manhattan. “I accept full responsibility for my actions.”
In September, federal prosecutors charged Mr. Nemazee, who had raised money for Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama, with running a Ponzi scheme from 1998 to 2009 that obtained $292 million in fraudulent loans from Bank of America, Citibank and HSBC.
At the time of his arrest on Aug. 25, Mr. Nemazee, the Iranian-American son of a shipping magnate, was chairman and chief executive of Nemazee Capital, a holding company with investments in private and public companies. In pleading guilty to three counts of bank fraud and a count of wire fraud, Mr. Nemazee, of Manhattan, told the judge that his misdeeds began when he was facing “severe financial difficulties.”
“I am deeply ashamed of my conduct,” the man, Hassan Nemazee, 60, told Judge Sidney H. Stein in Federal District Court in Manhattan. “I accept full responsibility for my actions.”
In September, federal prosecutors charged Mr. Nemazee, who had raised money for Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama, with running a Ponzi scheme from 1998 to 2009 that obtained $292 million in fraudulent loans from Bank of America, Citibank and HSBC.
At the time of his arrest on Aug. 25, Mr. Nemazee, the Iranian-American son of a shipping magnate, was chairman and chief executive of Nemazee Capital, a holding company with investments in private and public companies. In pleading guilty to three counts of bank fraud and a count of wire fraud, Mr. Nemazee, of Manhattan, told the judge that his misdeeds began when he was facing “severe financial difficulties.”
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Another reason to put Sarah Palin on GOP ticket
"Sarah Palin took her revenge on Sen. John Kerry — who'd expressed a wish that she, not Mark Sanford, had vanished — speaking to Alaska National Guard soldiers in Kosovo:
"He looked quite frustrated and he looked so sad — I just wanted to reach out to the TV and say, 'John Kerry, why the long face?'" she said of watching Kerry's jab."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0609/
Palin_John_Kerry_why_the_long_face.html
"He looked quite frustrated and he looked so sad — I just wanted to reach out to the TV and say, 'John Kerry, why the long face?'" she said of watching Kerry's jab."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0609/
Palin_John_Kerry_why_the_long_face.html
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