What the hell are House Pubs doing signing on to nanny-state "green" advocacy?

With all the pressing issues before post-America, why was H.R. 2126, which the House passed yesterday, even on anyone's plate?  It's a pustule of corporatist-statist feel-good / give-out-awards-for-energy-efficiency piece of busywork and soft tyranny.

It was co-sponsored by a Pub, David McKinley of West Virginia, and a Vermont Freedom-Hater, Peter Welch.

This opens the door to the government collecting data on construction of private buildings and incentivizing specific behavior through green venture socialism.  As always, these things start out as voluntary propositions, but quickly morph into full-blown mandates.

Also, like most green energy programs, the DOE will carefully craft the grant programs to benefit liberal crony capitalists who can’t sell their sub-par product or service in the free market without the extra boost from government.

Moreover, why are we adding another program to a department that Republicans [were supposed to] believe serves no constructive purpose?

At some point we need to ask why Republicans feel so uncomfortable being in the majority that they have to fill their time passing Democrat bills.

And unlike some of the other suspension bills, this is not an isolated measure that will stall out in the Senate.  The Welch/McKinley bill overlaps with a broader Shaheen-Portman bill that has been percolating through the Senate for the past few years.  They recently introduced another iteration of the bill and can now point to the fact that 86 percent of House Republicans supported much of the foundation for their legislation.  Rep. Welch has already said that passage of this bill “provides a clear path to conference” with the Senate.  They might take up this bill as early as next week.

Has anybody reading this ever been stoned on marijuana while driving and become preoccupied with some button on the dashboard - the radio, perhaps - only to look up and see that you were ten feet from an immutable tree trunk?  That's where where post-America is.