Growing resistance in the US to Cap and Trade...John Key in the WSJ...

"The Obama budget did more to help us consolidate and coalesce the business community than anything we could have done. It's opened eyes to the fact that this is about a social welfare transfer system, not about climate..." ...more here... Williamk Kovacs, US Chamber of Commerce, interviewed in the Wall Street Journal... There in a nutshell from Mr Kovacs is what global warming hysteria is about, not just in the USA but internationally. "The climate" is the excuse, the reality is an unprecedented wealth transference. The deceived Obama supporters will respond with great anger when the truth becomes evident...
...and John Key and Helen Clark hit the bigtime in the same issue...
...in the 1980s, New Zealand's government implemented a wide-ranging program of economic liberalization, including deep reductions in tariffs and subsidies, and privatization of state-run industries. The plan, nicknamed "Rogernomics" after then-Finance Minister (now Sir) Roger Douglas, was akin to Reaganomics, and the island nation grew smartly.
But while the U.S. and Australia broadly continued their economic liberalization programs under both right- and left-wing governments, New Zealand didn't -- until now. Over the past nine years, Helen Clark's left-wing Labour government rode the global economic expansion and used the revenue surge to expand government welfare programs, renationalize industries, and embrace causes like global warming. As a result, the economy stagnated while Australia took off. "We have been on a slippery slope," Mr. Key says...
...more from The Wall Street Journal here...

Free at last...

...from 9 years of maternalistic, self righteous political smothering..."Helen Clark's uncharacteristic failure to read correctly the court of public opinion on Winston Peters and his party's litany of political abuses has received its jury vedict.
In sticking with NZ First to save itself Labour was guilty on all counts...When governments see power as an end to itself rather than a means to an end, voters usually withdraw it." NZ Herald 10.11.08.
Prime Minister elect John Key now needs to present the country with his timetable to implement his vision and his goals. Among those goals should be a rise in our OECD rankings, significant tax cuts, scrapping of the loathsome Electoral Finance Act, a review of MMP, a withdrawal from the Kyoto agreement and review of prison sentencing for violent crime. All up, the election result is almost perfect... if Stephen Franks had succeeded in Wellington Central total bliss would prevail...

Memo to John Key...a prayer before each Paliamentary session ?

How about this from the UK House of Commons ?

"Lord, the God of righteousness and truth, grant to our Queen and her government, to Members of Parliament and all in positions of responsibility, the guidance of your Spirit. May they never lead the nation wrongly through love of power, desire to please, or unworthy ideals but laying aside all private interests and prejudices keep in mind their responsibility to seek to improve the condition of all mankind; so may your kingdom come and your name be hallowed.Amen." More from Cranmer here...