the rightwing czar

No, this isn’t the Lefties latest campaign slogan. It’s actually good old America-loving WWII propaganda.

When Pelosi and crew narrowly passed their piece of garbage cap and trade bill last week, lots of conservatives railed about how no one voting for the bill has actually read it. In fact, Ed Morrissey at Hot Air pointed out that Obama’s energy czar hadn’t even read the bill.

Turns out the stink of cap and trade is worse than we thought. Apparently there are provisions in the bill that will require homeowners to “retrofit” their homes to be environmentally friendly before they can sell them. Reread that sentence and let that soak in. If you are a homeowner and want to sell your house, under this bill you would have to pass an environmental inspection before you can:

The 1,400-page cap-and-trade legislation pushed through by House Democrats contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that.

This means that homeowners, for example, could be required to retrofit their homes to meet federal “green” guidelines in order to sell their homes, if the cap-and-trade bill becomes law.

The bill, which now goes to the Senate, directs the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement a national policy for residential and commercial buildings. The purpose of such a strategy – known as the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) – would be to “facilitate” the retrofitting of existing buildings nationwide.

So much for any semblance of respecting the private sector by the Democrats. This is disgusting – to suggest that the home you currently own – which already passed every thinkable inspection necessary for it to be built – would be required to meet some new absurd environmental standards before you could sell it.

Welcome to Obama’s American: where some arm of the federal government has a say in just about everything you do.

At least this bill looks to die in the Senate. That’s good news for now.

Of course, it’s the Republicans that hate science, right?