Although blessedly defeated for now, there is something that so emblematically symbolizes the Lieberman-Warner “climate change” legislation that I feel compelled to reproduce it here, along with an accompanying question:

Doesn’t this diagram look an awful lot like the ones Hillary Clinton’s “health care task force” rolled out fifteen years ago for her first attempt at a health care putsch?

Bonus question: minority Republicans stopped ClintonCare a decade and a half ago and were rewarded with control of Congress in 1994.  Minority Republicans stopped the even bigger communistic attack of Lieberman-Warner this week, yet are doomed to lose more ground on Capitol Hill, without which they may not be able to stop it again next year.  And no matter how the presidential election turns out, there will be a president at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue who will sign this monstrosity.  What does that say about ideological/philosophical direction in which America is drifting?

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