Don't blame the Despicable Eight, aka the Cap'n Traitors, for voting in favor of crippling our economy with a multi-$trillion energy tax in the name of the polar bears without even having read the 1,000+ page energy bill that would not only tip our economy into a depression, but allow the federal government to regulate the most picayune aspects of our lives. Not even the Energy Czarina Carol Browner has read it.

She'll know better than to appear again on FNC:

Via Hot Air:

STEVE DOOCY: "[I] know the bill is over 1,000 pages long. Have you have read it?"

CAROL BROWNER: "Oh, I'm very familiar with this bill."

DOOCY: "Have you have read it?"

BROWNER: "We have obviously been watching this for a very long time. I am very…"

DOOCY: "I'm sure you've got an idea of it, but you have read it?"

BROWNER: "I've read major portions of it, absolutely."

DOOCY: "So the answer no you haven't read it. But you've read a big chunk of it."

BROWNER: "No, no, no that's not fair. That's absolutely not fair."

DOOCY: "No, I'm just asking you if you read the thousand pages."

BROWNER: "I've read vast portions of it."

DOOCY: "Ok."

Vast portions. For all Carol knows, the bill bans the internal combustion engine. Al Gore would be delighted.

On a tip from Mandible Claw. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.