Stupid Congressional Pet Tricks

n ^ | 27 Jan 09 | foutsc

[foutsc]

When the CEOs come begging congress, they'll dance to any tune, even a discordant, nonsensical one played by foolish jesters gone stupid by a decades-long, taxpayer-unded bacchanalia. It is shameful how far these once brave captains of industry and self-made businesspeople have fallen.

WASHINGTON (AP) -Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., opening the new Congress' first hearing on the threats from global warming, said inaction on the climate issue is causing uncertainties that make it more difficult to emerge from the recession.

To dramatize the business community's growing consensus that the climate issue must be confronted, Waxman invited to the first hearing 14 corporate executives and environmental leaders who have pressed for an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.

Dealing with climate change "will not be cheap and not be easy," warned James Rogers, chairman of Duke Energy Corp. But he said coupling a short term stimulus package with a long-term climate plan, "we have the ability to stimulate greater confidence ...(and) put the recession in the rear view mirror."

This is why Congress will never eliminate "Corporate Welfare" and other taxpayer-funded incentives to businesses and individuals.

You can't get the doggie to dance on his hind legs if you don't have sausages to dangle in front of him.

Thank God our great nation was not cursed with such pusillanimous milquetoasts and craven bat-winged bloodsuckers at its founding. The US would be confined to the city limits of New York City, if it survived at all.

Atlas has shrugged, folks. He's a flaccid, shriveled little welfare queen now, begging at the foot of a degraded Mount Olympus and its idiocracy of fatuous, incontinent demi-gods.

The US Military is the only institution left in this country with any cojones or sense of honor.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95NNE8O0&show_article=1

[foutsc]

BTW, any CEO who supports “an 80% reduction in greenhouse gases” has figured out how to game the system and milk government for all its worth, especially someone in the energy business.

[astyanax]

"has figured out how to game the system..."
Or knows that someone has incriminating pictures of him...

[El Laton Caliente]

Agreed! Duke is heavily into electric power, development of new generation... the only way to drop electric power generation by 80% is to replace much of the existing gas and coal fired plants with nukes supplemented by solar and wind. Is Duke still a subsidiary of Fluor Engineering?

[willyd]

Dealing with climate change "will not be cheap and not be easy," warned James Rogers, chairman of Duke Energy Corp. But he said coupling a short term stimulus package with a long-term climate plan, "we have the ability to stimulate greater confidence ...(and) put the recession in the rear view mirror."

I think that says it all...