Detroit’s even more liberal paper published a bizarre editorial (even by the Freep standards) calling for passage of the flawed Kerry-Liberman “Energy”  bill in the Senate because doing something is better than what we have today. Via the aforementioned Freep:

Flawed energy bill beats current policies

Congress should tune out the naysayers and skeptics who suggest the timing is all wrong for an energy bill that includes controls on global warming emissions. Continued dithering will do more harm than almost any change in policy could.

Senate action on the Kerry-Lieberman bill, which was introduced this week to meet up with a bill that the House has already passed, would end the uncertainty that is delaying decisions in some cases and prompting rash actions in others. The bill attempts both to cut down on global warming gases and to limit the country’s dependence on oil, and, with some quickly inserted new safety provisions, even includes offshore drilling in U.S. waters. (emphasis added)

Global warming is so 2008. Besides if it isn’t warming in my back yard, you can’t say the entire planet is warming.

And the Free Press dutifully pushes on with the the official  DNC scripted talking points.

In other respects, the American Power Act is a sort of feeding frenzy for energy interests, with chum for the nuclear power industry, farmers, natural gas producers, spurious clean-coal development and alternative energy boosters. It is hardly a well-orchestrated policy, although Americans probably would rebel at anything that smacked of more detailed planning.

Americans, at least as Congress perceives the country, also are allergic to anything that threatens access to cheap energy. Hence the costs will be routed through subsidies, research grants and tax credits. This disguises the economic impact without giving consumers the price signals that might actually help them modify behavior – but it apparently is the best that can be hoped for.

I have a hard time believing that the proceeding two paragraphs were actually published in an American news paper. Compare the Detroit Free Press editorial to this op-ed in Pravda (yes, that Pravda).

That brings us to Cap and Trade. Never in the history of humanity has a more idiotic plan been put forward and sold with bigger lies. Energy is the key stone to any and every economy, be it man power, animal power, wood or coal or nuclear. How else does one power industry that makes human life better (unless of course its making the bombs that end that human life, but that’s a different topic). Never in history, with the exception of the Japanese self imposed isolation in the 1600s, did a government actively force its people away from economic activity and industry.

Even the Soviets never created such idiocy.

Even the writers at Pravda get it.

And with Editorials like this, it is no wonder the Detroit Free Press can’t publish a paper every day of the week.