text: In Hollywood, there's no business like show business. Inside the Beltway, there's no show like the business of sound-bite showboating. In the president's speech there appears the phrase "carbon pollution" no fewer than 30 times. In the Orwellian language of the environmental left, "carbon pollution" is carbon dioxide a natural substance that is not toxic to humans at many times greater than current ambient concentrations and that protects plants from various environmental stresses. It is unlike any other effluent regulated by the EPA for which less is better. Too little carbon dioxide would make life difficult, and in the extreme case, the Earth uninhabitable. That obviously will not be the result of the president's proposals if implemented. But the large expansion of government power and centralized planning authority inherent in the proposals is not an end to be pursued.