Radio talker Dennis Prager says there are two parties in the USA: the dumb party (GOP) and the destructive party (Democrats). I think it’s possible to be destructive because you’re dumb.

Witness the climate change bill that passed the House without anyone reading it — there wasn’t even a printed copy of the bill to be read before the vote.

From the AP’s story on the climate bill.

“It fundamentally will change how we use, produce and consume energy, ending the country’s love affair with big gas guzzling cars and its insatiable appetite for cheap electricity. This bill will put smaller, more efficient cars on the road, swap smokestacks for windmills and solar panels and transform the appliance you can buy for your house.”

Laws will not end Americans’ preference for larger, safer vehicles, it will only thwart their efforts to get them. And, pray tell, who does not want cheap electricity?

UPDATE: EPA apears to have suppressed a skeptical report on C02

The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages.

Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty “decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data.”

The EPA official, Al McGartland, said in an e-mail message (PDF) to a staff researcher on March 17: “The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward…and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.”

From the preface: