Democrats' Gang of 16 oppose CAT - Cap and Trade

Because they're in coal-consuming states Democrats are allied with Republicans in opposition to Obama's disgusting Cap and Trade proposal. Cap and Trade is as bad as income tax. If income tax is a tax on work, then an energy tax is also, since it takes energy to work. CAT, Cap and Trade, Carbon Credits, carbon-emissions-based credit are all the same. They are all an energy tax, which is the same as a tax on work.

The Democrats who support Obama on Cap and Trade should be ashamed.

The Democrats who oppose Cap and Trade are the Gang of 16. Ironically, John McCain, former Gang of 14 member against the Republicans, supports Cap and Trade.
One more reason to abandon any McCain support of any kind for 2010.

Typically there is no mention of the Senate Democrat opposition in this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/us/politics/23climate.html?ref=global-home

It's somewhat disturbing that nothing comes up in a Google search on "democrats coal obama" that might indicate WV IN WY OH MO NM depend on coal and that Stabenow MI, Bayh IN, Sherrod Brown OH, Levin MI, Blanche Lincoln AR, McCaskill MO, Ben Nelson NE, Mark Pryor AR, Jay Rockefeller WV, novelist Jim Webb VA, Casey PA, Landrieu LA, Jeff Bingaman NM, Robert Byrd WV, Kent Conrad ND, and Byron Dorgan ND are in opposition to Cap and Trade.