Awesome! We get to step back in time 200 years and go back to dim, lights or oil lamps, all because some environmentalist wacko decided that Thomas Edison sucks! How long will it be before we’re talking about the evil LED lighting companies who are making gross profits off of us? Just watch, when the tax revenue from utility taxes goes in the toilet, they’ll either raise the tax on electricity, or they’ll tax LED lig*

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Claim: Environmentalists think Thomas Edison sucks. This article says that the government will make you pay $50 for lightbulbs.

Me: No, and only for really expensive LED lightbulbs. Read the damn article, not just the headline.

Rebuttal: Okay, fine, but I hate the arbitrary date that someone decided on. And my lighting options are no light, bad fluorescent light, or $50 bulbs.

Me: You will have had five years to make the transition from when this was passed by Congress in 2007 to 2012. And CFLs come in m any different sizes and colors, and they’re cheap.

Rebuttal: Well, something is being forced on me that doesn’t work as well as the original thing. I don’t like the government telling me what to do.

Me: The government exists to do things the people cannot; ensuring clean air, for example.

Rebuttal: China pollutes more than we do; why should we care?

Me: BANGS HEAD ON FUCKING WALL.

In a scripted segue that requires Ms. McCain to refer to her notes (thankfully, they were not written on her hand — the horror! [/sarcasm]), she says:

McCain: Congressman Tancredo went on TV and he was the first opening speaker and he said, ‘People who could not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House whose name is Barack Hussein Obama.’ And then he went on to say that people at the convention should have to pass literacy tests in order to be able to vote in this country, which is the same thing that happened in the 50′s to prevent African Americans from voting. It’s innate racism and I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement. And I’m sorry, but revolutions start with young people, not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English.

Granted, in his speech, Tancredo took some potshots at John McCain, so Meghan was probably pissed off about that. Still, I’m glad to finally see someone within the conservative ranks calling out the Tea Party for what it is: a seclusionist, isolationist, xenophobic, racist, nationalistic movement motivated by fear — not pride or patriotism — and the desire for status quo. Frankly, I hope the producers of The View hire her and jettison that other blond host whose only contributions are talking points from O’Reilly’s show that aired the night before.

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(I fear that my post-football depression is going to manifest itself in more political rants. Great.)