Inevitable: Rick Boucher's Record on Cap and Trade is Coming Back To Haunt Him

-- When constituents asked Boucher about his bill, he "massaged" the truth so hard that it nearly snapped in half --

See the incident in our new Web Video "Fantasy" here.

Rick Boucher's record is beginning to catch up with him. Voters in southwest Virginia are beginning to examine his record and they don't like what they see. Not only does he vote for the radical agendas of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi 96.6% of the time, he wrote and voted for a bill that would cripple Southwest Virginia's economy

Boucher Claim: His cap and trade bill won't cost the coal industry any jobs.

Reality: A CBO report released in May found that of all sectors that will lose jobs, coal will be hardest hit. More than 33 percent of all coal jobs will be GONE by 2025, based on the bill written by Boucher. From the Congressional Budget Office:

"According to the three studies that CBO reviewed, under an emission reduction program, by 2015 employment in the industry would decline by 10 percent to 18 percent relative to employment without such a program. Over the longer term, employment in the industry would decline even further. By 2025, it would fall by nearly 20 percent according to the Brookings study, by nearly 30 percent according to the RFF study, and by more than 35 percent according to the CRA International study."

Boucher Claim: Cap and Trade's impact on electric bills will be "minimal."

Reality: Even President Obama has noted that Cap and Trade would make "electricity rates skyrocket." And he's not alone.

From CBS News:

"A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion a year. At the upper end of the administration's estimate, the cost per American household would be an extra $1,761 a year."

Rick Boucher's claims about Cap and Trade are so far divorced from reality that they'd be laughable - if they didn't represent a coordinated attack on one of Virginia's most economically hard-pressed regions.

The More Rick Boucher Runs on His Record, the More Out of Touch His Record Seems.