{I guess Obama will keep the lights on and the economy humming by his brillance - or maybe all the change he is going to effect will somehow generate electrical fields. Of course, he has no concern about keeping the lights on in the White House - you can be sure that the last amp flowing anywhere in the country will be directed to the White House with the peons paying for it while they shiver in the dark.
Kansans are going to pay the price in spades of the Governor sabatoging the Holcomb coal plant this year - the opportunity to get it started was squandered in partisan bickering. Even if the Kansas legislature could pass it with a veto-proof margin at the state level during the next session, the odds of an Obamination Administration letting it happen are about the same as Algore renouncing global warming, The Governor did it to gain points with Obama for a DC job - once she is out of here, she could care less what happens in Kansas other than to do whatever is necessary to prevent Holcomb from ever being built to ensure her legacy with the ecofascists. Maybe some one should plant a tombstone at the Holcomb site: "Here lies Viable Economy, Done in by Anti-Carbon Kathy. - Ed.}
by Chris Dickerson
CHARLESTON - At least one state coal industry leader said he was shocked by comments Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made earlier this year concerning his plan to aggressively charge polluters for carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. "What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there," Obama said in a Jan. 17 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle that was made public today on the Web site newsbusters.org, which calls itself "the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias." MORE..