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Posted at 3:32pm on Jun. 4, 2008 At Least *Someone* Up There Gets It: Cornyn Reminds Us Of Unintended Consequences

By haystack

US Senator John Cornyn, representing the greatest State in the nation, has a news release posted at his official Senate website that is a must read for anyone that thinks this Cap and Trade nonsense is...well, nonsense. Titled "Climate Debate Must Be Mindful Of Unintended Consequences", the good Senator from Texas shows that HE, at least, gets it regarding the problem(s) with the Democrat majority's master plan to destroy the economy...err, I mean, save the planet:

The bill [S. 3036] appears to implement a $6.7 trillion program that could undermine economic growth, raise energy costs for American consumers and send jobs overseas to countries such as India and China. We need a thoughtful and serious debate on how to be the best stewards of the environment possible. As we do this, I hope Congress pays heed to the law of unintended consequences, including what impact it might have on the budgets of families in Texas and across the country.

At a time, when many working families are struggling with high gas prices, we must take steps to address this problem, and not add to it.

I have been ranting and I have been raving for two days about Democrats preferring "Comprehensive Global Climate Protection" (to the tune of trillions of dollars) over chipping away, Conservatively, one piece of this at a time. I'm fine with giving the planet a couple aspirins over the next 10 years to break her "fever", but I am NOT ok with Congress ruining our lives NOW, so they can prop us back up later with bloated Government and wealth redistribution and tax breaks for the poor and middle class by giving us "tax initiatives to protect us."

On the Senate floor Cornyn continues trying to get these crazy Democrats to understand what's at stake, and who the real problem is:

[I]nstead of dealing with that urgent need that affects every man, woman, and child in this country, this Congress has decided to head down another path and that path is a bigger government, more taxes, higher energy costs for electricity and gasoline and with the uncertainty that any of this will actually have an impact on climate. Especially given the fact that countries like China and India of a billion people each are not going to agree to impose this upon themselves. And so America is going to do this, presumably, while our major global competitors are not and we're going to suffer not only those higher prices, but job losses, reduction in our gross domestic product, and a competitive disadvantage with the rest of the world. Why would we do that our ourselves? At the same time we see this sort of Rube Goldberg bureaucracy that would be created. I think that Senator Dorgan yesterday said that this bureaucracy would make "Hillary care" pale in comparison with its complexity as reflected on this chart. This is the kind of huge expansion in government power over our lives and over the economy that is really unprecedented in our country, and I suggest is the wrong solution -- is a wrong answer to what confronts us today.

Props to Cornyn for the "Rube Goldberg" comment...he gets it...why is this so hard for the Democrats?

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