Obama Compares Cap and Trade Bill to Freeing the Slaves

Wonderboy is summoning the ghost of Abraham Lincoln to convince fellow Democrats that the world's largest tax increase is the right thing to do. He doesn't explain why, he just says so. So that's probably good enough.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) enlisted two senior committee members to help assemble the House energy bill... The authors' bottom line was a cap that would gradually reduce greenhouse gas emissions... When Obama entered the fray on May 5, summoning all 36 committee Democrats to the White House, he didn't make a single demand. Rather, participants say, he pointed to a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and said, "He had a chance to affect history. You, too, have a chance to affect history."

Oh. Okay. I guess that leaves us no choice. We're so fucked.