John Kerry and Barbara Boxer have an Op-Ed in today’s Washington Post rebutting Sarah Palin’s piece in last week’s WaPo attacking Cap and Trade.

Here’s a little taste of their stupidity:

Palin argues that "the answer doesn’t lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive!" The truth is, clean energy legislation doesn’t make energy scarcer or more expensive; it works to find alternative solutions to our costly dependence on foreign oil and provides powerful incentives to pursue cutting-edge clean energy technologies.

Palin asserts that job losses are "certain." Wrong. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and American Clean Energy and Security legislation will create significant employment opportunities across the country in a broad array of sectors linked to the clean energy economy. Studies at the federal level and by states have demonstrated clean energy job creation. A report by the Center for American Progress calculated that $150 billion in clean energy investments would create more than 1.7 million domestic and community-based jobs that can’t be shipped overseas.

Kerry and Boxer are living in the land of Oz. The left doesn’t give a damn about “breaking our dependence on foreign oil” they don’t want us to depend on any oil. They’re using phony climate change as an excuse to gain a vice-like grip on every aspect of our lives.

If Kerry and Boxer really gave a damn about ending out dependence on foreign oil they would let us use our own oil. They would allow us to build more nuclear plants and experiment with oil shale. They would allow off-shore drilling, drilling in ANWR, and drilling anywhere else we have oil.

We have a enough oil, natural gas, and nuclear potential to be completely self-sustaining if we really wanted to be. But that’s not what this is about. It’s about environmental extremism and phony science being used as a rationale for stopping human development and destroying our country.

John Kerry and Barbara Boxer are nothing but contemptible jerks who should be thrown out of office.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has an excellent Op-Ed in today’s Washington Post about the Obama “Cap & Tax” energy plan. She lays out the clearest arguments yet for why the Obama plan is a disaster that will destroy our economy.