Nice job, Congressman Dingbat. Staying true to the Democrat mantra of screw the rich.  Wonder what John Edwards thinks of this--his house is 10x over the limit. (Another case of Democratic hypocrisy...do as I say, not as I do).

The Baltimore Sun headline hid this "particular" on their front page, with a non-threatening headline. 

I almost choked on my Breakfast Burrito when I read this particular Info.  You'd think that "predicting" the Future would be very very difficult....but everyone has been predicting that raising "Taxes" was the Real background to Global Warming...and now we see the prediction taking shape, and coming true. 

I predict Dingle won't make it thru the NEXT Mich. election.  He's toast.  Come Winter, Global warming in Mich. is a Myth....you might get away with not being noticed in August....but long cold winters will weigh in with the constituents of this particular GW congressman.

And they say Maliki is incompetent ? ?  

IF Dingle left the USA, and went to Iraq, He'd improve the Average IQ numbers in both Countries.  

What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ?   David Foote  GoE

I'm going to take the Devil's advocat stance on this by saying Senator Dumbell has the right idea of reducing energy consumption for the wrong purpose and means. Most of us here believe AGW to be a hoax and ploy by lib Dems to bring about full blown Socialism to the US. 

Energy consumption is a national security issue not an environmental issue.  It is foolish to place ourselves at the mercy of foreign powers via an embargo as we experienced twice in the 1970s.  I for one insist we should not place ourselves in the position of being blackmailed again given that it was attempted twice on us. Not to mention the balance of payments with the trade deficit, we could use more dollars recycling in our economy instead of foreigners using our dollars to buy up the country. 

I have contended for quite some time that the people who can afford such huge houses like Al Gore, John Edwards, etc. , i.e. the rich 5% who own 70% of the US personal wealth consume half of all our electricity.  As much as the entire electrical output of India!  Now they are entitled to spend their money any way legally they desire on as big a house they can afford.  However, they are not entitled to place the country at the mercy of foreign powers based on their ravenous energy consumption. 

Senator Dingel, if you are really serious about energy consumption deal with the issue directly and not indirectly with mortgage interest deductions.  Slap Al Gore, John Edwards and the rest of the rich who can afford it with an Excess Energy Consumption Tax per property.  Anyone who uses more than 2 or 3 times the average American household should be slapped with a tax equal to the utility charge.  This tax is optional since they have a choice to 1. reduce their electrical consumption. 2. use alternative energy such as solar panels and wind via a net metering solution with the utitlity.  Ordinary Americans, the majority, should not pay for the ravenous appetite of the few.  If Al Gore and John Edwards group would reduce or get off the electric grid, then energy prices would drop for the average American.  Fuel is a limited commodity and as such is subject to the laws of supply and demand, the market will sort out the rest.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius

Actually, this proposal won't hurt the really rich homeowners like Dingell. They don't have mortgages; their houses are paid off. They paid cash. It will hurt the vast number of Americans who are already over-extended on their mortgages because they bought the largest house they could possibly get from rapacious mortgage companies. You know, the ones that Hillary now wants to bail out.

In my part of the country, home construction has been booming for decades and most of the new housing is of the 3000+ sq. ft. variety. I'm continually amazed at how there can be so many people around who can afford such houses. I think the real explanation is that there aren't. They don't have the money; they have these crushingly large mortgages on which they will default the first time they hit rough times.