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    • This shows the benefits to the Democrat party of initiating lots of bad initiatives at the same time; the public (and political activists) just can't respond fast enough.

      I suspect that the opposition to this bill would be a lot louder if people really understood how nebulous the benefits are and how tangible (and huge) the costs will be.

      The real clue to the costs of this bill is listening to Mr. Obama's statements extolling the bill; we are starting to learn that while his rhetoric is moving, the president does play fast and loose with the facts.

    • That's not a middle of the road poll. That's an upper middle class group with specific environmental biases and no emphasis on cost constraint.

    • That poll is garbage. Either the sample of people was not random or the people have no clue what is actually in the legislation. Regardless of your views on climate change, the bill does nothing. No one is happy about the bill except for the companies that get billions in free permits. The environmental lobby is angry because the bill does nothing to stop climate change and people who realize what the bill says are angry because it will raise the cost of energy.

    • Most Americans do not know this, but the House legislation calls for $50 billion more in taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactor construction; a doubling of taxpayer spending on dangerous reprocessing technologies, and a formal Congressional intent to build 100 new reactors(which use coal for fuel refinement) in the next 20 years! Reprocessing is a failure in France and should really upset Americans concerned about atmospheric pollution! Just go to, and find out!


    • I don't like it. I don't want to be told what kind of car I can drive, when my air conditioner can run, how and when I must recycle... get the HELL out of my life and business government. Why so many people want to bow down before the morons in Washington is something I just don't get... why give away freedom and pay a lot more money for something that just doesn't matter in the long run.


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