So, Harry Reid has revealed that he will avoid the committee process to bring a cap-and-trade — plus the new gas tax/”carbon linked fee”– to the floor without the unpleasant side effects of transparency and open deliberation. This surely is in great part because of the necessary involvement (and possible reluctance) of the Finance Committee, whose involvement is critical for any tax and who must be hoping to avoid talking up the taxes, both direct (gas tax) and indirect (cap-and-trade, or “lightswitch tax”).

And of course this latest stunt to carve backroom deals, buying constituencies’ political support at your expense, comes just in time. As of today you can buy I Told You So, er, wait, Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America. As you’ll read, below, this pulls the rug out from far more than cap-and-trade, but that scheme gets the treatment in all its gory detail.

Now, we also understand that the Dream Team of John Kerry and Lindsey Graham have decided to hold off introducing their energy-rationing scheme to serve as the Reid/Obama vehicle, preferring to wait a week and avoid the originally intended association with the loopy Earth Day crowd.

On a pivot, we’re told instead that their “global-warming” bill – written and designed as a “global-warming” bill though to no one is ready to claim that it would detectably impact the climate; it’s a legislative Maginot Line against a slightly more illusory threat — well, it’s really about jobs and national security now. Of course it is, dear.

“Power Grab” will make sure you’re instead armed for every such rhetorical stunt. Here’s a feel for the contents:

CHAPTER 1: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America

CHAPTER 2: Renewable Fools

CHAPTER 3: Van Jones Was No Accident: The Obama Administration and Radical “Green” Activists

CHAPTER 4: Obama’s “Global Warming” Power Grab: Taxing and Stealing Your Liberties

CHAPTER 5: Picking Your Pockets for Political Payola

CHAPTER 6: Green Eggs and Scam: The Wholesale Fraud of “Green Jobs”

CHAPTER 7: Obama’s “Baptists and Bootleggers”: Unions and Greens Selling Out America

CHAPTER 8: Domestic Disturbance: Locking Our Resources Up and Shutting the Economy Down

CHAPTER 9: Insecurity Complex

CHAPTER 10: Lights Out: Our Dim Bulbs Guarantee Blackouts