McCain lies about cap-and-trade on Meet the Press
March 29th, 2009Just now on Meet the Press, McCain was listing off wasteful spending, and claimed that the proposed cap-and-trade program in Obama’s plan was an “earmark” of some $600+ billion dollars, nothing that this was nothing like the sort of cap-and-trade that he favors. Of course, Obama’s cap-and-trade program will instead generate $650 billion in revenue. It’s not an earmark by the remotest definition of the word.
He returned to the subject of cap-and-trade later and said some largely unintelligable stuff that at least included the word “revenue” before jumping to, “oh and by the way; it’s not cap-and-trade, it’s cap-and-tax.” McCain used to be so much better at seamless transition into one-liners; the campaign ruined him.
Update – Thanks to a mysterious commentor for McCain’s exact remarks: “They’ve earmarked $634 billion for cap and trade; by the way, a betrayal of everything I’ve ever believed in about cap and trade, which I’m a supporter of.”