We are watching government morph into something very strange. Benito Mussolini said, "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." The real driving force behind this session is something I bet most of you have never heard of -- ALEC. ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-funded, extremely right-wing group that sponsors conferences for state legislators and draws up model bills that are introduced all over the country. ALEC is particularly interested in privatizing government services and deregulating everything, and is anti-environment to an extent that's almost loopy.
Here's ALEC's site: http://www.alec.org. Quote:
Carbon dioxide is not a scientifically proven air quality reducer. The task force is very concerned that this attempt to validate the Kyoto Protocal at the state level will severely limit fuel diversity for energy production in all of the states.