The Obama Energy Tax Hike May Not Be Dead

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Townhall:

Cap and trade may not be dead. President Obama plans to be hiding an energy price hike in the tax code.

After the 2010 midterm elections, President Obama said in a press conference that the liberal shellacking wasn’t about his policies, but was simply the failure of communication about his policies that caused massive Congressional turn over.

Now, President Obama is prepared to bring his cap and trade scheme back from the dead. Same agenda, different hidden message.

Senator-elect Joe Manchin of West Virginia shot the current Cap and Trade bill with a rifle in a campaign ad, assuring constituents he would not be voting for the legislation in the next Congress and came out this week with a statement saying Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would not be pushing it through during the lame duck session or in the next Congress.

"I got his commitment that cap and trade will definitely not be on the agenda and won’t be on the agenda during the next Congress,” Manchin told reporters following his swearing-in. “I have a deep commitment and a personal commitment from him that cap and trade is dead.”