Over on the Corner, Iain Murray notes the lineup switch on the cleanup hitter for today’s Waxman-Markey push. (No denying it’s the Obama Energy Tax now — right, Iain?)

Speaking at the White House just now, [Obama] said that this was a “jobs bill” that would cost the same as a “postage stamp a day.” Now, by my reckoning that means that he has secret plans to put the price of First Class Mail up to $3.40, because according to the best analysis out there, the bill will cost the average family $1241 a year. Moreover, high prices are what the president said he wanted (video evidence here).
As for jobs, look at that Heritage link and particularly Chart I. You’ll see that the effect in 2012 is almost 2,000,000 jobs lost. Over a million more are lost in each of 2013 and 2014, before the “green jobs” — those low-paying, temporary construction jobs the greenies rave about — come online. They never quite stop the effect being negative and then, once the brave new economy is in place, they go away and the job losses mount almost exponentially as industry relocates to China and India, who would never be so mind-bogglingly stupid as to impose such limits on themselves.

The postage-stamp analogy is particularly troubling, since — as Jo Nova has hilariously observed — if history is any guide, such a stamp-price hike promises to raise global temperatures beyond whatever temperature reductions Waxman Markey’s paltry CO2-emissions cuts might eventually achieve.