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The Democrats have Shown Their Hand. They’re Going to Play the Global Warming Scare.

Interesting note in the WaPo, today:

All of the leading Democratic contenders for the presidency are committed to a set of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that would change the way Americans light their homes, fuel their automobiles and do their jobs, costing billions of dollars in the short term but potentially, the candidates say, saving even more in the decades to follow.

Former senator John Edwards [1] (N.C. [2]), who from the outset has made global warming one of the three pillars of his campaign, explains his ambitious plan to Democratic primary voters in terms of sacrifice.

“I know what presidential candidates are supposed to do; they roll in here every four years and they promise you this, they promise you that. What I’m going to do is tell you the truth,” Edwards says at nearly every campaign stop. “It won’t be easy, but it is time for a president who asks Americans to be patriotic about something other than war.”

The strong medicine Edwards and his fellow candidates are selling — an 80 percent cut in greenhouse gases from 1990s levels by 2050 — tracks with a plan espoused by scientists. But it is a plan that will require a wholesale transformation of the nation’s economy and society.

Not really. More like a wholesale destruction of our economy… which our previous attempts to ‘save the environment’ have gotten about half completed.

Casting this ‘global warming’ nonsense as a moral imperative is already wearing thin on people who have seen previos effotrs only come to economic problems, increase governmental power, increased taxes, higher energy costsĀ  lower productivity, and increased hardship on the American family… the very people they’re supposedly trying to help.

The Democxrats are playing the Global Warming scare, ala Chicken Little, to get into office. They’re playing on fear, plain and simple.

Don’t let them.