Does anyone else think this could backfire on the Democrats in a big way? Cap & Trade is really just an added tax that will raise prices. Nothing gets people voted out of office faster then a bad economy. George Bush the First went from approval ratings in the upper 80's to becoming a one term president.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
