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Screw the Environment! (It's too expensive!)

This is the kind of representation I have in Congress...and believe it or not, this guy is better than Souder:

Thank you for contacting me regarding the impacts of global climate change. I appreciate your thoughts and concerns on this issue.

I am deeply concerned about the threat posed by global climate change. The scientific consensus on this issue is unequivocal. Global warming is real and greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are causing it. Scientists and others warn that climate change threatens our nation's security, and may imperil future generations' opportunity for safe, healthy, and prosperous lives.

However, any carbon-constraining mechanism must protect Hoosier ratepayers, workers and businesses from increased costs. Additionally, other nations of the world must be included in this effort, because if they are not, our action will be for naught.

Please rest assured, should legislation regarding global climate change be introduced in the 111th Congress, I will keep your views in mind.

What this clown doesn't realize is that pretty soon it will be too expensive to take a breath. Time to stop worrying about things getting more expensive and do what needs to be done. If we constantly complain about the cost, it will never be done, and then what?

You lost my vote already, Mr. Bayh, but you'd lose it again if you hadn't already. I don't know who you are representing here, but it isn't me. I am beginning to suspect it is yourself.

The Action Americans Need

"Criticisms of my plan echo the failed theories that led us into this crisis--theories that Americans rejected in November." Op-Ed Writer-in-Chief!

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An Open Letter to John McCain

Dear John McCain:

We, the Democrats, won the Presidential election in 2008. We voted for Barack Obama. We did not vote for you.

Why? Because we believed in change. We no longer accept the validity of your old ways of thinking, or the effectiveness of an already failed Republican economic policy.

You seem to be under the misapprehension that you won. You appear to think you are in a position to dictate terms to the White House. To impose your will - the will of a defeated minority - on the chosen, duly elected president of the majority. You seem to think you are a position to dictate your failed policies to the American people, who have already rejected them.

In case all of this escapes you, you lost. That's right. You lost the election. You are no longer in a position to dictate anything.

We did not vote for Barack Obama so that the Republicans can stay in power. This is now how things work in the United States. We expect actual change to take place.

That change will not occur if the majority continues to follow the failed policies of the Republican Party.

So you want to negotiate? We already did. It was called the presidential election. End of negotiations.

You lost. Please accept this as fact. Please become part of the solution or become irrelevant in truth.