re: #188 Occasional Reader

Whoa. Okay. Settle down, y’all. Yes, I know I was the one who linked to this in the first place, but this guy’s whacko views are never going to become law. Ain’t gonna happen. That doesn’t mean it isn’t deeply troubling that he’s got the ear of Obama, of course.

His whacko views aren’t going to become law?

But isn’t that the topic of this thread — that his whacko views on cap-&-trade just did become law?

If you had described this whole AGW and cap-&-trade thing to someone a few decades ago, they would have laughed at you if you suggested that one day it would all come true and that the US would purposely cripple its own economy in this fashion. However unlikley it may have seemed, it came true. And yet a few deades ago was when Holdren wrote those words about compulsory abortions. It may seem unimaginable today that his fantasies could ever come true, but other fantasies of his have in fact come true, so anything’s possible.

I agree that it is extremely unlikely, but it is not impossible.