Key Democrats turning against Obama's Cap-and-Tax economic suicide plan

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Ben Nelson (D-NE) recently joined two North Dakota Senators, Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, along with Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) in rejecting Obama's illegal, economy-crippling attempt to seize power and control over the means of production in this country via the left's Cap-and-Trade scam.

The four Democrat defectors now say their party should abandon all efforts to pass such senselessly devastating legislation this year and concentrate instead on a narrower bill on renewable energy.

As Lincoln put it, "The problem of doing both of them together is that it becomes too big of a lift...I see the cap-and-trade being a real problem.” Kent Conrad added, "We should separate the energy bill from the climate bill,” thereby allowing liberals to propagandize for each individual attack on America without people connecting the dots.

While ordinary people may understand health care (hence them increasingly rejecting Obama's backwards, time-disproven ideas in droves), only 24% of Americans even realize what cap-and-trade is, let alone what it would do to this economy. So if Democrats could somehow separate it from all other legislation, drive down the price tag a bit, and keep spoon-feeding voters their absurd anti-science climate hysteria long enough to railroad it through, then they would at least have salvaged something from this otherwise sweeping public rejection of their disastrous policies.