What to do when the American public sees through the scam known as “Cap and Trade”? Why just rename REBRAND it!
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats tried out a new catch phrase Wednesday to sell their global warming bill: pollution reduction and investment, or PRI.But it’s just another name for cap and trade, a term derided by Republican critics as “cap and tax” because it will increase energy prices and which Democratic polls have shown faring poorly with voters.
The rebranding is an indication of the uphill battle the climate bill — which would cap greenhouse gases and also allow industries to buy emission allowances — faces in the Senate.
A number of Democratic senators, currently entangled in the heated health care debate, said they continued to have trouble with key elements of the climate legislation. Several said it would be a huge challenge — perhaps impossible — to try to get a climate bill passed this year.
The idea to remake cap and trade into pollution reduction and investment came from Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., author of the bill unveiled Wednesday. He came up with it about a month ago to refocus attention on what the bill would do, not how it goes about doing it.
“Cap and trade doesn’t mean anything to people, ” Kerry said in an interview, insisting that “this is an actual description of what’s happening here.”
Excuse me? “Cap and trade doesn’t mean anything to people,??!! Shorter Kerry: Cheese it, guys, they’re on to us!
(h/t RWSparkle)
Comment by JHo on 9/30 @ 6:34 pm #
See also here, Darleen. These bastards are shameless.
I want to know who’s really running the show and how because obviously it’s not the voters.
Comment by JHo on 9/30 @ 6:36 pm #
Eight. Hundred, Pages.
Hopefully they’re not all blank.
Comment by Joe on 9/30 @ 6:49 pm #
Dems think you are all stupid.
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/30 @ 6:51 pm #
This is like alphie rebranding himself snowcone.
Comment by JD on 9/30 @ 6:52 pm #
Lerch is an imbecile. Let’s focus on the name rather than what it does!!!! Why not name it the Universal Kitten and Unicorn Love Act?
Comment by geoffb on 9/30 @ 6:53 pm #
I think that acronym is already taken, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, but in good socialist solidarity the Democrats can most likely get a license for temporary use.
Comment by JD on 9/30 @ 6:56 pm #
How about RAT&DEA? Rape the American Taxpayer & Destroy the Economy of America
Comment by The Monster on 9/30 @ 7:06 pm #
It’s really about finding how much money can be PRIed out of our hands.
Comment by geoffb on 9/30 @ 7:11 pm #
I’m thinking movie. “Gorezilla and Frankenkerry, Revenge of the Forgotten Souls”
Comment by william on 9/30 @ 7:24 pm #
They better hurry up and pass this thing as all of the data backing up the global warming hoax is falling to pieces –
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/30/agu-presentation-backs-up-mcintyres-findings-that-there-is-no-hockey-stick-in-yamal/
Steve McIntyre at ClimateAudit.org has done some amazing work –
http://www.climateaudit.org/
Comment by MikeD on 9/30 @ 7:28 pm #
It has become common knowledge that the majority of voters in Massachusetts and California are not very bright–but that doesn’t mean everyone else is stupid. I mean, is it even possible to come up with two more incompetent, egomanical, half-witted, descredited pieces of sh*t to propose alternative legislation to replace the transparent cap and tax disaster than Kerry and Boxer? Are Democrats really that damned stupid or do they sincerely think all the rest of us are? I know the answer embodies both explanations but it still causes my eyes to roll back into my head in amazement.
Comment by Blind Howling Moonbat on 9/30 @ 7:29 pm #
What about those earthquakes and tsunamis? Are you going to deny the ocean level raises during a tsunami?
Comment by JD on 9/30 @ 7:37 pm #
Barcky already stopped the oceans from rising. He told us.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/30 @ 7:40 pm #
Remember when the Republican’s rich masters tried to get the estate tax repealed by labeling it the “death” tax?
And the Dems shot it down by labeling it the “Paris Hilton” tax?
Good times.
Comment by JD on 9/30 @ 7:43 pm #
Remember when Barcky tried to rename taxes and even Stephanopolous laughed in his face? Good times.
Comment by Rusty on 9/30 @ 7:43 pm #
#14
If you’ve had an education your parents should get their money back.
Comment by Darleen on 9/30 @ 7:46 pm #
Rusty
I don’t think snotty had parents … hatched someplace…
Comment by JHo on 9/30 @ 7:47 pm #
Remember when Barack Olberman took three weeks off to finally listen to his commanders? Good times.
Comment by pdbuttons on 9/30 @ 7:48 pm #
classic coke
Comment by JHo on 9/30 @ 7:49 pm #
because of the munchies
Comment by william on 9/30 @ 7:52 pm #
Remember when the UN, Al Gore, and the Democrats tried to tells us that Anthropogenic Global Warming was threatening life on earth, but it wasn’t. It was all cherry-picked data, power grabs, and new government taxation schemes. Good Times.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 9/30 @ 7:52 pm #
Remember when the Republican’s rich masters tried to get the estate tax repealed by labeling it the “death” tax?
Paul Harvey had the best name for it: the graverobber tax.
Comment by JHo on 9/30 @ 7:55 pm #
Remember when the Senator Boxer amalgam of pride and deceit tried to make green hopey law? Good times for Democrat corporate reform.
Comment by Pablo on 9/30 @ 8:01 pm #
Pollution Reduction and Reinvestment, you say? And we’re talking about carbon dioxide? The stuff plants need to live, and that each and every one of us exhale with every breath? That CO2?
I just want to make sure we’re on the same page with the pollution thing.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/30 @ 8:02 pm #
I just want to make sure we’re on the same page with the pollution thing.
Depends on whether you live in Texas or not, doesn’t it?
Comment by JD on 9/30 @ 8:08 pm #
They don’t need CO2 in Texas?
Comment by Molon Labe on 9/30 @ 8:08 pm #
AGW fraud in layman’s terms here.
Comment by Pablo on 9/30 @ 8:08 pm #
Rainforests love CO2, snoblo.
Comment by Frontman on 9/30 @ 8:10 pm #
#10 “as all of the data backing up the global warming hoax is falling to pieces”
Like that makes any difference. Once the science is settled, get the hell out of the way.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/30 @ 8:16 pm #
They don’t need CO2 in Texas?
They emit a porcine amount of it down there.
Comment by Jim Ryan on 9/30 @ 8:17 pm #
The warming models are correct. The earth is warming.
Recent cooling just means the earth is taking a break. It will resume cooling in about ten years. Let’s make that part of the models. Now that that’s part of the models, the recent cooling vindicates the models. Yet the deniers say the cooling refutes global warming. Can you believe it? Anti-science Hallithuglican wingnut bible thumpers.
Where was I? Yes. The models are correct. We need to cut a couple of percent into the GDP, slash jobs by a couple million, and raise taxes a few thousand per family. Because of teh models. Nancy needs more money.
Comment by B Moe on 9/30 @ 8:19 pm #
I think Snowcone found Cynn’s stash.
Comment by JD on 9/30 @ 8:20 pm #
You really are a fucking imbecile.
Comment by Frontman on 9/30 @ 8:22 pm #
Peripherally related-whatever happened to “acid rain”? That had kind of a Henny Penny quality to it back in the day.
Comment by B Moe on 9/30 @ 8:28 pm #
Acid rain was a for real problem in some areas. Cleaner coal burning procedures have gotten in pretty much under control.
Comment by Frontman on 9/30 @ 8:31 pm #
Roger that, thanks.
Comment by meya on 9/30 @ 9:10 pm #
“clean skies initiative” was already taken.
Comment by stuiec on 9/30 @ 10:22 pm #
PRI, eh? As in the party that ruled Mexico for decades? Wonder if that’s a ploy to help attract the votes of… oh, wait… undocumented immigrants can’t vote, can they?
Comment by geoffb on 9/30 @ 11:08 pm #
Hey now, they can rename the “Death Panels” to “Paris Hilton Panels”. You’ll still die but you’ll be smiling.
Comment by McGehee on 9/30 @ 11:12 pm #
Only until the Wise Latina strikes down all those racist voter ID laws.
Comment by dicentra on 10/1 @ 12:31 am #
As a plant fancier and gardening enthusiast, I am very much in favor of any activity that increases CO2.
I also cannot bear to eat vegetables, the way some animal fanciers cannot bear to eat meat.
Comment by B Moe on 10/1 @ 5:20 am #
Probably should also note that we didn’t have to totally fuck up the economy to do it, and the screeching hippies didn’t do a damn thing to help.
Comment by Frontman on 10/1 @ 7:25 am #
Again, thanks, B Moe. You have articulated much better the point I was getting at.
Comment by DarthRove on 10/1 @ 7:31 am #
Damn, wish I’d thought of that while Darth Mom was trying to push her overboiled broccoli down my throat. “I can’t eat vegetables, I’m a conscientious objector! Plants have rights too!”
Comment by sdferr on 10/1 @ 7:34 am #
“broccoli”
Aha, another oppressed super-taster!
Comment by DarthRove on 10/1 @ 7:47 am #
Now I love broccoli, but in steamed or sautéed form. Gotta be crunchy. Limp broccoli brings on teh flarshbacks.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/1 @ 7:55 am #
What, Pimp and Gouge was already taken?
Comment by SDN on 10/2 @ 7:38 am #
Whereas when you live in Wackademia, like snowblower, you can just make shit up.