Overseas, climate change was the top issue at the opening of the Group of 8 summit in Italy this week, while here at home the Obama administration, the Democratic Congress and their news media propagandists are prepping us for a huge and regressive tax increase masquerading as an environmental measure. It's the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, aka the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which passed the House late last month. If we're lucky, the miserable legislation will be killed in the Senate, but it's more likely that some version of it will spring into life to do its damage to us under the guise of saving the planet and making us energy independent - which, in case you don't know, isn't possible in the real world.
On Tuesday, I talked with California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock, who stood on the floor of the House June 26 and warned us all of what lies ahead if this measure makes it into law. "I had a strange sense of d?j? vu as I watched the self-congratulatory rhetoric on the house floor tonight," he said. "Three years ago, I stood on the floor of the California Senate and watched a similar celebration over a similar bill. ... And I have spent the last three years watching as the law has dangerously deepened California's recession." (To get the details of his warning from the left coast, you can listen to my interview with Mr. McClintock by going to my page at wbal.com.)
