Blaine: U.N. climate group will force us to bike to work!
The future according to Blaine
Our new favorite member of Congress, Blaine Luetkemeyer, is warning that “the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. . .receives millions of dollars a year in your taxes to promote a liberal agenda of taxing businesses and forcing us to ride bicycles to work.”
The congressman also says the cap-and-trade bill in Congress will “impose a massive $3,000 per household per year energy tax on Missouri families, cost the 9th District thousands of jobs, and raise gas prices at the pump by up to 77 cents per gallon.”
(Fact check: The Congressional Budget Office estimates that in 2020, the cap-and-trade bill would cost families $175 a year. See this editorial for more details. The CBO says that over 10 years, cap-and-trade might increase the pump price by 77 cents a gallon. This would not be a tax, as Mr. Luetkemeyer suggests, but added costs that those poor, hardly-make-any-profit-at-all oil companies pass on to consumers. Where he got the part about forcing people to bike to work affiant knoweth not.)
On Thursday, we editorialized about Mr. Luetkemeyer’s bill to stop U.S. tax dollars from the supporting the U.N. panel’s work, which he characterized as “junk science.”
Now the 9th district freshman is using our opposition to try to raise money for his re-election bid. He sent an e-mail fundraising letter to his supporters asking Will you help me by contributing to our campaign and show the liberal St. Louis Post Dispatch they are WRONG?
We are of two minds about this. Contributions might better be spent to provide Mr. Luetkemeyer an education in science. But if he’s defeated by someone with critical thinking skills, what will we do for fun after we ride our bicycles to work?
And does the P-D’s Sgt. Sarcasm have a degree in science?
“…attacking a persons opinion is one thing, but attacking his intelligence level his education level is pathetic and sad….it gives us journalists a bad name. People like you all is why we are losing readers, advertisers and papers are closing” — SW Missouri journalist
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the esteemed Editorial Board concentrated efforts on insuring our local Representatives have read the d___ bill before they vote on it.
We built this country on an antiquated superhighway system. Gas was cheap. People wanted green grass. The suburbs were created. Europe and other industrialized nations never developed that way. People still live in cities. Public transportation is the nrom rather than the exception. Now thath gas is expensive and that our polution is harming our environment, we’re forced to change our life style. Is that so wrong?
Awwww. The cry babies on the editorial staff had their widdle feewings hurt.
There is not a consensus on how much Cap and Trade will cost the American family. Blain is using MIT figures but MIT says that they were misquoted. What I find interesting is that the Post seems to be okay with a less amount. Didn’t your messiah say there would be no tax increases on the middle class? My how we forget. Utility costs are just one part of the equation. What about those manufacturing companies? They will have to pay for a CO2 license. Do you think they’ll eat that cost? Nope. They’ll pass it on to the consumer.
Obama has been quoted as saying that under Cap and Trade “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket”. A couple of hundred dollars a year quoted here doesn’t sound like skyrocketing costs..perhaps Obama does indeed know how much families are going to have to pay.
As for attacking Blaine, if the Post is attacking him, that means Blaine must be pretty close to the truth.
Did I miss your editorial about MoveOn.org using Sarah Palin to rake in big bucks? Did I miss your editorial about the CBO’s figures saying that the new healthcare bill will bankrupt our country?
http://www.gopusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61596
It really is sad to see a bunch of so-called grown-up journalists act so sophomoric towards a single human being that disagrees with them on a topic.
Is this what compassionate liberalism is all about?
Interesting that the editors, being skeptical of Blaine Luetkemeyer’s math, seem perfectly content with “estimates” from the CBO re the cost of the “cap and trade” legislation. They endorse the CBO estimates that by 2020, the bill would cost families only $175/year.
Funny, the “estimated” cost of gasoline could increase .77/gallon. Let’s see, .77 X an average 20 gallons per week X 52 weeks comes out to $800.80/year. Where did that $175 figure come from and exactly what cost is it referencing?
But, hey, the Post says that’s not a tax. Sounds like Joe Biden is now writing editorial copy! Wonder what other fuzzy math is waiting to NOT tax us?
Maybe it’s a diabolical plot by those “poor, hardly-pay-any-taxes-at-all” members of the Obama Administration who intend to impoverish the nation to advance their socialist agenda. The same administration that intends to hand out (not auction or sell; free! to “those poor, hardly-make-any-profit-mega-corporations”) carbon tax offsets to well-connected coporate contributors. Yes, some of us have seen the provisions of the legislation and recognize the dog-and-pony show the Democrats are orchestrating at the expense of the American taxpayer.
The Post’s blind allegiance to the far-left’s agenda has propelled the editors to adopt the Saul Alinsky (or Robert Gibbs) method of character assassination to discredit the opposition (yes, I’ve also read “Rules for Radicals”). Blaine Luetkemeyer is the latest avatar to act as a pinata for liberals to pound. I don’t know about cycling to work, but the Post is certainly peddling something distasteful.
I knew that “Tour of Missouri” would cause nothing but trouble. This is all Kinder’s fault!
Nice of you to beat back scare tactics with facts. Now if you only some readers will accept truth over fallacy, Missouri shall move forward.
I just love it when a liberal quotes the Congressional Budget Office as their proof of their position. Does this hack editor support the CBO’s estimate that the Obama led health bill is going to add about $1.5 Trillion to the deficit, NOT lower health costs, and not meet the goal to insure everyone like the ’savior’ says it will? Here is a challenge PD editor board………..write another article and use the CBO’s testimony before Congress on the Democrats Health Bill, then we may give some credibility to the pap spewed above.
tartan, hell would freeze over before they would use such facts that don’t support their agenda. But hey, it’s July in St. Louis and tomorrow will be a record low temp in the 70’s. And they think Blaine is the idiot?
What I do know it that the P-D refuses to report on the McCaskill protest:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/mccaskills-office-locks-doors-pulls.html