The arrogance of Boxer will light a bit of a fire under the seat of the tiny Republican base in California, but it won’t play out in the general election. Boxer is powerful- the current chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee- and a third-term senator. Incumbency is a huge strength in congressional elections, and Boxer isn’t going to lose to a Republican in California, especially one using an example of her arrogance as a primary weapon.

What might work, however is continuing to highlight her major support and substantial role in creating a cap-and-trade bill; highlight how the bill was pushed to next year by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), indicating both how unpopular it is and how there are no major plans to pass it (no, Democrats are not going to pass a job-killing bill in the same year as an election during a major recession); and perhaps how even President Obama has admitted electricity costs will skyrocket and how the EPA Administrator admitted earlier this year in Hill testimony that ?[she] believe[s] that essential parts of the chart are that the U.S. action alone will not impact CO2 levels.? Too, emphasize how it was liberals who created California’s economic and other messes, and how conservatives can fix them.

The stimulus was a success, but we are still losing 70,000 jobs a month.? The economy is in recovery, but it still needs more help.

Then right in the middle he slipped in “cap and trade”.? And began speaking of the millions of jobs this promised land would provide and how it would spur on economic stimulation.? He then introduced some individuals that have “ideas” for jobs.? One of them was a Veep at GE.? Big surprise!

So we can probably expect MSNBC to start ramping up their GE commercials and pushing cap and trade policy again here soon.

Of all the things that Obama can do to ruin your life, cap and trade will be the absolute worst.? It will destroy small business in America by reducing profits to nothing and creating barriers to entry that are too high for new small businesses.? It will increase the costs of everything you buy, and it will strip you of your freedom.

Cap and trade is the government granting you the right to breath.? And if someone owns your right to breath, they can just as easily take it away and they can give it out.

-nick

It stands to reason that exiting the recess, bold, and highly visible claims of back tracking could easily lead to less public attention of a bill that would include a revised or partial public option.? The next several weeks and months will be a key time to zone in, not to zone out based on these initial claims.

Be aware as well that as Congress boots back up, the Al Gore Business Plan cap and trade legislation will also be entering the Senate.? This is another bill to keep a watchful eye on in the Fall season.

-nick

With the recent narrow passage of the controversial Waxman-Markey ?cap and trade? bill in the House and the ongoing debate over global warming, one should expect balanced coverage of both sides of the issue. However, much of the media has neglected to report on the alleged ?hush up? of an EPA research analyst whose report on global warming prompted his supervisor to warn it could have had a ?very negative impact on this office.?

At 8:45 a.m. EDT on the June 30 edition of “Fox and Friends,” EPA Senior Operations Research Analyst Alan Carlin, told interviewer Steve Doocy that his 98-page study that questioned the science behind global warming and called for the EPA to stop depending on reports from the United Nations, was ignored by his supervisor who refused to forward the report on because Carlin?s ?comments do not help the legal policy or case? for the EPA?s position on global warming.

Ironically, as detailed an earlier NewsBusters posting by the MRC’s Brent Baker, in late January of 2007 the broadcast network evening newscasts quickly hyped ?a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing meant to publicize a report from two far-left groups about how the Bush administration supposedly suppressed science about the dire threat of global warming.?

This caused Matt Lauer on NBC?s Today, to suggest that President Bush was ?hiding the end of the world,? and that, ?A controversy in Washington over what could literally be the end of the world as we know it.? Now that the tables are turned, the media?s bias coverage of environmental issues is even more apparent.

-sam

Senator (now President) Barack Obama, SF Gate Interview, January 17, 2008

You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know – Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.? …? So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can – it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.

Dr. Peter Orszag, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, now Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Congressional testimony, April 24, 2008

Under a cap-and-trade program, firms would not ultimately bear most of the costs of the allowances but instead would pass them along to their customers in the form of higher prices. Such price increases would stem from the restriction on emissions and would occur regardless of whether the government sold emission allowances or gave them away. Indeed, the price increases would be essential to the success of a cap-and-trade program because they would be the most important mechanism through which businesses and households would be encouraged to make investments and behavioral changes that reduced CO2 emissions.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2009

I believe we have to [pass a cap-and-trade bill] because we see that as a source of revenue,” she said, noting that proposed cap-and-trade bills would raise billions of dollars by forcing major emitters to buy credits to release greenhouse gases. “Cap-and-trade is there for a reason. You cap and you trade so you can pay for some of these investments in energy independence and renewables.

Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, Washington Post, April 2, 2009

He called cap-and-trade “the most significant revenue-generating proposal of our time.

-nick