Via AllahPundit at Hot Air:
Update: 219-212, with eight Republicans – the difference between passage and defeat – defecting to vote yes. The boss is already hunting around for their names. I hope they got a sweet deal from Pelosi because talk radio is about to make their lives very, very difficult.
Update: Inhofe predicts cap and trade will die in the Senate, which is probably true. I wonder if that made the bitter pill easier to swallow for those eight Republicans.
Update: The boss has the names:
Bono Mack
Castle
Kirk
Lance
LoBiondo
McHugh
Reichert
Smith (NJ)
For the eight I promise nothing. As in I will not contribute one thin dime to the Republican party if a fraction of a cent of party support goes to any of those eight. I will contribute, cheerfully, to any primary challenger for any of the eight.
But for the eight, nothing. Nothing at all. Exactly what they deserve. Exactly what they are to me.
That is also a warning to the party. You have a problem if you support any of these nothings.
The Wall Street Journal:
Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as “deniers.” The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.
In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country’s new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country’s weeks-old cap-and-trade program.
The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. — 13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world’s first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak “frankly” of her nonbelief…..
The cult managed a seven vote victory in the lower chamber of the US Congress. Now is the time to start pushing back on the science – hard. Because these are, again, unsettled times.
UPDATE: For example, one might want to read this little gem that punctures the “science” of global warming. (Via QandO, found on Memeorandum)
Politics | Gaius June 26, 2009 | 
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