“A study last year from The Heritage Foundation predicted CO2 regulations could cost up to 800,000 jobs per year in some years. Even in a ‘good’ year, our economy would lose more than half a million jobs every year from 2015 through 2026. (These are net job losses, by the way. The Heritage estimate takes into account all the ‘green’ jobs the government is supposedly going to create, and still shows hundreds of thousands of lost jobs each year.) 

“Manufacturing would be hit especially hard. As many as 3 million people could end up unemployed. That’s because business owners, faced with a massive carbon tax, would pack up and move their plants to China, India or some other location where the government doesn’t impose exorbitant costs. 

“Congress hasn’t helped matters with its latest attempt at ‘cap and trade’ legislation. Expect significantly higher energy costs if the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, which recently passed the House, becomes law.”

“Since the Reagan era, some conservatives have hoped to shrink government by ‘starving the beast.’ Refuse to raise taxes, they figured, and eventually spending would have to fall.

“It's beginning to look as though the new team may have a similar strategy, in reverse: Increase spending, and eventually taxes will have to be raised.”

“Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., promised Americans that when they took over Congress in 2006, they'd restore accountability and transparency. 

“They didn't say anything about intelligence. 

“When the current Democratic Congress isn't busy shoehorning financial giveaways to their union friends and business partners, when they're not busy ramming unread, horribly written thousand-page bills into law, they're busy on matters of vital import like resolutions praising Michael Jackson and pricey vacation ‘investigations.’ They're bad — they're bad — and they know it.”

“ABC News has abandoned all pretense of journalistic integrity in its bid to be the administration’s official salesman for ObamaCare… this ‘news special’ becomes nothing more than an extended infomercial designed to scare and manipulate the American people into supporting a trillion-dollar government takeover of the highest quality health care system in the world.”

“In a previous Forbes column, I decried President Barack Obama's insistence that empathy would weigh heavily in the scales when it came to his next Supreme Court nominee. And reading the arguments that were put forth to justify the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit to the Supreme Court, it appears that all the bad chickens have come home to roost. 

“Evidently, the characteristics that matter most for a potential nominee to the Supreme Court have little to do with judicial ability or temperament, or even so ephemeral a consideration as a knowledge of the law. Instead, the tag line for this appointment says it all. The president wants to choose ‘a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in Bronx public housing projects to become the nation's first Hispanic justice.’”