This is just another attempt by this administration to crush the private sector. This global warming fiction has already been debunked but the left keeps pounding the drum of doom and gloom. No jobs are being created, people arn't spending and industry is not investing while the administration is only concerned with wrecking the health care industry and taxing working people with this kind of foolishness as well as making villians out of anyone who dares to disagree. How's this hope and change working for ya???

Yes - it may take a tea party to force attention. Attention to ignorance and to vested self-interests. Attention to our need to educate ourselves and our neighbors on the continuing degradation of our environment. Articulate lobbyists supported by oil companies and power companies can take the time to cherry pick among massive scientific data to support their clients' interests at our expense. The rest of the data are understood by the scientific community as supporting the need for rapid action to reduce pollution in a market-supported context. The international scientific panel behind the cap and trade concept won the Nobel Prize last year. They're not tea partiers. They're hard working, highly educated scientists. Yes - cap and trade will cost us money, because our government will no longer be underwriting polluters who treat our air as their free cesspool. We will no longer be trading our respiratory health and longevity for cheap energy. We will have to pay the real environmental and social costs, but we cannot afford not to. And it is our choice to make as citizens and consumers. If the Republican Party is serious about educating voters on complex issues such as environmental science and health care, they should bring in real experts with real degrees and real, debatable points of view, not unqualified advertising writers for hire like the Randalls who are exploiting the lobbying dollars of corporate interests at our expense. We don't need tea parties with bussed in hired stooges in our communities. They were a national embarrassment. We need information and understanding that helps us direct our representatives to formulate policies that ensure our grandchildren's futures instead of ensuring the bonuses of corporate executives and fees for hired lobbyists.

Note to Phil, Perhaps you have been watching too many Michel Moore fiction movies. Your long-winded response to cap and trade AKA climate change (formerly known as global warming) seems a bit nieve. Lets face it...people actually contribute the most CO2 that trees breath in to grow. Its only natural. Let it happen. In 30 years headlines will once again read about the threat of global cooling as they did 30 years ago. Its called a natural cycle. Cap and Trade is nothing more than another way to tax Americans even more. And do we really need more taxes? Don't think so Phil...

Nice teleprompter Phil......

Phil, the earth has been cooling since 1998, look it up.

If the administration truly believed in global warming they would turn down the themostat to 60 degrees in all goverment buildings durning the winter and up to 80 in the summer. I notice whenever I go into a goverment building it is always nice and cool in the summer and nice and warm in the winter. How much pollution does this double standard create?