Raw Story:

At the end of a week-long Memorial Day Congressional recess, the Republican party ramped up their attack on the Democrat’s House climate bill with a three-minute internet and radio address by Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana, calling the bill “a poster child for government that cannot work.”

Gov. Daniels, in his address, portrayed the proposed cap-and-trade legislation as a conspiracy of the coasts against the lifestyle of the Midwest. “Even if one believes the administration’s own computer models, which they claim can predict temperatures 50 years away, the CO2 reductions from their bill could not budge the world thermometer by a tenth of a degree. It has become clear that the Pelosi bill has little to do with a cooler planet and everything to do with raising money for the out-of-control federal spending now underway in Washington. Please, excuse us Midwesterners for feeling a bit like the targets of an imperialistic policy, devised in places like California and New York and Massachusetts for their benefit and our expense.”