With 212 traitors in the U.S. House of Representatives.br /br /Paul Krugman a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/opinion/29krugman.html"didn’t mince words yesterday/a in discussing last week’s Waxman-Markey climate vote, talking about “treason against the planet.”br / br /And, if we don’t want to stop at calling the 212 traitors against the planet, folks in more northern states might call any of the 212 in their area traitors against their home states:br /blockquoteTemperature increases on the scale predicted by the M.I.T. researchers and others would create huge disruptions in our lives and our economy. As a recent authoritative U.S. government report points out, by the end of this century New Hampshire may well have the climate of North Carolina today, Illinois may have the climate of East Texas, and across the country extreme, deadly heat waves — the kind that traditionally occur only once in a generation — may become annual or biannual events./blockquotebr /Hope you downstate Illinois “Little Egypt” Republicans like 40 100-degree days a year. And six months of chiggers. And tiny, but 24-hour swarming, skeeters. And fire ants moving north. Want anything else from down here?div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-6689552221301204772?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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