Taxing the air we breathe -- or exhale

So some horse's ass like Van Jones or Carol Browner-n-browner was sitting around having a beer one day and said to themself:  We've got to find a way to tax the air people breathe. No way out of that one. The entire world will be hock up to elbows if we can only find a way to get that through.

Enter Al Gore -- the monumental idiot looking to make a fast buck on environmentalism, since his political career failed.

I know! CO2 is the culprit. If we can compel some reputable scientists to actually support this bullshit, we can run the world! And see if we can't find a way to get around congress on this, because they won't want to raise taxes quite that high without offering any tangible benefit for it.

So they got some British dumbheads to fake some supports and then toss whatever "hard" evidence they ever had for it (their dog ate it), and got the kind of Sweden or someone all upset about the oceans rising, and Al Gore went out and dummied up a very stupid and sensational movie design to scare the crap out unsuspecting citizens.

Then some butthead from some US agency seeking funds (they're all, always seeking funds), decided that, Yeah, if we pretend the CO2 is dangerous, and swear up and down we need massive studies on it, etc etc., I can get enough funding to expand my little agency and grow my power base. Let's do it!!

So this agency declared that CO2 is dangerous. Like toxic to the planet.

So everytime you breathe out, you're exhaling CO2, and you're poisoning the planet.

Well, someone apparently said, "What are you people, sitting on your brains? Let's take it to the Supreme Court."

And the Supreme Court, most of whom ARE sitting on their brains, decided to uphold the really shaky and untenable contention that CO2 is a danger to the planet.

Then someone else said, "What are people nuts? Let's get congress to vote on it."

And congress, of course, is just anxious as Van Jones and Carol Browner-n-browner to tax the air we breathe -- after all, congress has run the nation into $14 TRILLION of debt -- so yesterday they voted, "Yeah. CO2 will kill us all. It's OK if the EPA fines people for being caught for possession, manufacture, and distribution of CO2." The crime is BREATHING.

Mark Levin was all upset about this last night. I'd gotten a couple emails in preceding days to contact my senators to tell them to vote "no" on penalizing breathing. However, my senators are Dick(head) Durbin and Yes-man shuck-n-jive Roland Burris, so what would be the point?

So apparently congress authorized the EPA to tax the simple act of breathing in and out.

First of all, according to the US Constitution, only the House of Representatives can originate a tax bill. I'm not so sure they can "authorize" an agency in the executive branch to take on this responsibility without a constitutional amendment.

I don't know. Any constitutional scholars out there?

And hey..... we may all have to just hold our breath until we can boot this jackasses out of office, then another couple years to clean up the wreckage they leave behind.

Save the republic.