I’m consistently mesmerized by denial…Idiocracy…and my current favorite, euphemisms.
How fitting that the very word itself sounds so much better than, say, obfuscation.
Cap industries’ emissions of the gases blamed for climate change? Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, who leads the House Energy and Commerce Committee, will have to contend with dissent on a panel with Democrats from coal and manufacturing states.
“The legislative process requires compromise and being open to different alternatives,” Mr. Waxman said.
In defense of Henry though, I’m not sure I’d want to say, “We’re copping out on this one.”
