| Much has been said recently about Rep. Michele Bachmann's insanity. I've come to call her the energizer bunny of crazy. To accompany this endearing trait, is her relationship with the truth.
It's like me and cleaning. I don't like it and I don't like to do it.
Bachmann wrote an editorial in today's Avista Partners-owned Star Tribune. In it she claims that cap-and-trade will raise pay the consequences with lost jobs, higher bills, etc. That's all well and good. She's entitled to her opinion. But she is not entitled to lie.
Any way you look at it, it's low- and middle-income Americans who will pay dearly for this. According to an analysis by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the average American household could expect its yearly energy bill to increase by $3,128 per year. Using an analysis by Peter Orszag, President Obama's budget director, that number would be closer to $4,000.
The guy from MIT didn't say what she thinks he said. In fact, the study said the opposite. The MIT guy even sent Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) a letter telling him to stop lying about his study. That didn't stop Weeping John and his buddies.
I guess Bachmann and her buds aren't really into fact checking. Then again, neither is the Star Tribune. |
