House Republicans: Climate bill a thinly veiled attempt to mask the real truth

House Republicans: Climate bill a thinly veiled attempt to mask the real truth

From the House Republicans

In Case You Missed It: "Just Don't Call It a Climate Bill"
WASHINGTON – Last week, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) unveiled their long-awaited climate bill in the Senate. In an editorial today, The Wall Street Journal says Americans should not be deceived into believing this is a dramatically new approach from the controversial cap and tax bill that barely passed the House of Representatives last summer. In reality, Kerry and Lieberman’s attempt to dress this bill up and sell it as a new approach on climate change is nothing more than a thinly-veiled attempt to mask the real truth underlying their job-killing cap and tax energy plan.
In its editorial, The Wall Street Journal writes of the Kerry-Lieberman cap and tax bill:
“Despite the most creative rhetoric this side of ObamaCare, voters have figured out that ‘cap and trade’ involves artificial carbon rationing and vast new energy taxes. So the main goal of John Kerry and Joe Lieberman has been attempting to disguise these truths in the climate bill they released to much fanfare last week.
“The bill was nine months in gestation once it became clear that the version the House passed last summer—which one of five Democrats opposed—was doomed in the Senate. Yet no one should mistake Kerry-Lieberman for a new approach.
“Jim Lucier, an investment analyst at Capital Alpha Partners, calls it the Mr. Potato Head bill. The cosmetic features can be rearranged, but it's still a Mr. Potato Head. This is still cap and tax—except with new and larger subsidies, outright corporate bribes, and the rest of the political palm-greasing that Democrats hope can still lead to a Rose Garden ceremony this year.”