The secret of any magician's act is his ability to 'mis-direct' our atttention...

....while he performs his slight of hand, Well now - while our attention is directed toward the marathon soap opera we call a presidential nomination process --- guess what our rep's in congress are doing...!
The key to exposing the Wizard of Oz is to look behind the curtain!!!!!!

Turn your eyes back toward the Beltway and watch the sausage known as the Lieberman-Warner green boondoggle bill pass through the hallowed halls. The destroy America bill is wending it's way through just like it might be good for the country.

Sen. James Inhofe called it several weeks ago:

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today commented on the Lieberman-Warner global warming cap-and-trade bill’s substitute amendment (Climate Security Act – S.2191).

“The latest version is nothing more than window dressing for a bill that has been exposed by numerous government and private analyses as costly and damaging to America,” Senator Inhofe said. “Lieberman-Warner will redistribute over $5.6 trillion from American consumers to pet congressional projects. Despite paying for the trillions of dollars mandated by this cap-and-trade scheme, American families and workers will only receive back $800 billion in consumer tax relief — $7 paid for every $1 returned.
“The fact is that the Lieberman-Warner bill is the largest pork bill ever considered by Congress. No matter how many revisions this bill undergoes, it remains a massive redistribution of wealth, the largest new tax and spend program in our Nation’s history. The handouts being offered by the sponsors of this bill come straight from the pocket of families and workers in the form of higher gas, power, and heating bills. The newly revised Lieberman-Warner bill offers nothing new except more pain at the gas pump and more expensive consumer goods.”

Entrepreneur Herman Cain minces no words in distilling the essence of the legislation:

The Lieberman-Warner bill is a cap-and-tax energy scheme, a carbon-emissions rationing program, a new tax on businesses and consumers, a new big government central agency and new career opportunities for thousands of new lobbyists specializing in greenhouse gas regulations…
… The bill also establishes the Carbon Market Efficiency Board, which shall report on the national greenhouse gas emission market and provide cost relief measures if it determines significant harm to the U.S. economy.
Give me a break!
The people who conceived and wrote this crap are obviously descendants of the same people who wrote the original tax code in 1913, the Social Security legislation in 1935, the Medicare bill of 1965 and the out-of-control prescription drug legislation of 2004.
Just look at how well all of these “the government knows best” programs are working today, and we have a good idea of where this latest giant leap for mankind will work for our grandchildren.

The Institute for Energy Research has extensive analysis of the costs of Lieberman-Warner.
Greg Mueller e-mails:
The U.S. Environmental protection Agency (EPA) analysis of the economic impacts of Lieberman-Warner assumes that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is deployable at scale across the entire U.S. electricity sector, and that there is a 150 percent increase in U.S. nuclear power generation by 2050. The EPA analysis also assumes that the U.S. complies with the Kyoto Protocol, which it currently does not.
Based on those assumptions, EPA concludes that Warner-Lieberman would result in annual reductions of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) ranging from $238 billion to $983 billion in 2030, and from roughly $1 trillion to more than $2.8 trillion in 2050; gasoline prices would increase by $0.53 per gallon in 2030 to $1.40 per gallon in 2050; and electricity prices are projected to increase 44 percent in 2030 and 26 percent in 2050.

Now then, at my age I don't even buy green bananas. I sure don't reckon I'll be worrying about heating my house or keeping my job in 2030, 2040 or 2050! But by God My grandkids and their kids will be --- and this shifting of American wealth by the trillions burns like jalapeno soaked toilet paper. I sure hope some of you Pilgrims start taking pen telephone or keyboard in hand. We sure ain't gonna get any help from either the 'Empty Suit" or the "Wrinkled RINO"!

With the fact of global warming still to be proven, we might want to take some gentle steps to make sure we are not mistreating our planet ---- but we better start looking behind Oz's curtain and see what is really going on... You ain't in Kansas anymore, Pilgrims!