By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Could the climate-change bill of 2009 be deja vu for the Democratic Party, bringing back memories of the debacle of the BTU tax of 1993?
The Democratic Party better hope not. It lost power in Congress at least partly because of the tax.
I wrote about the tax early in the first term of President Bill Clinton in 1993. He alienated Republicans and many Americans by trumpeting the merits of the new energy tax.
The measure was worth supporting because it had the potential to make sweeping changes in how Americans used energy. In short, it was aimed at reducing energy consumption by Americans and harmful emissions by the power industry.
The U.S. House narrowly passed it, but it died in the Senate.
The New York Times has a timely story resurrecting what happened to the tax.
The article examines Democratic-led House passage of the climate bill pushed by Democratic President Barack Obama early in his first term and how it might lead to similar outcomes in Congress after the 2010 elections.
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Poor flop...
keeps pushing the 46M number which inclueds 10-15M illegal aliens who have no RIGHT to health insurance, millions in between jobs, millions more who qualify for Medicaid but are too stupid to signup and millions of young who choose not to have health insurance...
You and your other lib pals can ruin our healthcare system and change it to long waits and denied care, with resulting earlier deaths, and feel you have "covered" all these poor souls...
less then 17 months until sanity returns
Ya, right
I keep hearing that. Don't belive it for a second but I keep hearing it.
You know for $1 trillion over the next 10 years we could just buy those "46 million" insurance for less. But that's really not the idea now, is it.
kind of off topic, grunt
but you do realize that no one's proposing socialized medicine here in the states, don't you? It's offering an affordable insurance plan so the 46 million uninsured folks in this country can get covered that's being discussed.
Another Punishment for D's...
Canada's great socialized medicine in practice...
I suspect our elected officials will have this option no doubt...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/30/canada-sees-boom-private-health-care-business/?test=latestnews
Fewer pirates, more warming
We need more pirates!
I agree Faceless -
But green is the color, and the only money-green involved is if the Chinese Yuan notes have any green ink in them.
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But most of the lemming-liberals on this blog don't want to think about your points. Obama will somehow take care of them.
Bad Idea
The problem with this bill is that the Chinese, with their coal-burning power plants and factories and home heating, are a bigger problem than we are, yet are exempt from numerical limitation under Kyoto because they are (were) a developing country at the time the Protocol was developed. The Protocol is now overcome by events, leaving a loophole big enough to drive a truck through. Until the loophole is closed, it does little good for the U.S. to cut its own CO2 emissions at the cost of American business. We already can't compete with the Chinese without shooting ourselves in the foot as well. This bill could be a good idea once the Chinese agree to serious limits. Until then, there are more pressing matters for the Obama administration to work on.
heh
amusing
Certainty Is Inversely Proportional to Actual Understanding.
One of the things I’ve learned in my month long (more or less) foray into the blogosphere is that certainty is almost directly inversely proportional to actual understanding.
Thank you for illustrating the point.
Sadly, you are wrong again.
My representitive IS MY EMPLOYEE and it IS HIS JOB TO READ THE "CONTRACT".