Posted on 01/26/2007 1:55:41 PM PST by rellimpank
Why our CEOs are warming to Kyoto.
(Editor's note: We reintroduce today the Potomac Watch column from Washington. It will appear on Fridays and be written by Kimberley Strassel, a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board. She joined the Journal in 1994 and has worked as a reporter in Europe and as an editor and editorial writer in New York.)
Washington this week officially welcomed the newest industry on the hunt for financial and regulatory favors. Big CarbonCap may have the same dollar-sign agenda as Big Oil or Big Pharma, but don't expect Nancy Pelosi to admit to it.
Democrats want to flog the global warming theme through 2008 and they'll take what help they can get, even if it means cozying up to executives whose goal is to enrich their firms. Right now, the corporate giants calling for a mandatory carbon cap serve too useful a political purpose for anyone to delve into their baser motives.
The Climate Action
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Show Them the Money !!!
I believe that this symbiotic relationship between the leftist gov't and private industry, which consolidates power in the gov't and takes from the people,and offers benefits to certain companies over others, constitutes fascism.
Attack of the rent-seekers...
Called it like I saw it. You too.
"If the Cap Fits"
That made me think of going to the range this weekend and busting some caps - just because I can.
Semper Fi,
If the cap fits
you must capit(ulate)
(sorry) ;-)
Al Gore is doubtlessly raking in plenty of "green" from "Earth in the Balance" and his speaking tours. Someone should remind Mr. Gore (and Nancy Pelosi) that Real Democrats do not destroy working people's jobs while running up their heating, air conditioning, and transportation costs to enrich big corporations.
Even better, we should remind the Democratic base of this as we go into the 2008 elections, so union members and other traditional (moderate/conservative Democrats who actually work for a living) will realize that their own so-called leaders are doing to them what they keep accusing Republicans of doing: enriching big business at the expense of the working person. If done properly, it will result in an electoral disaster for the Democratic Left.
More about the Kyoto Treaty SCAM at http://www.stentorian.com/kyoto
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