Blunt Assessment: "They just made it up. It’s really crazy."

Via Think Progress, I see that MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post have weighed in on the bogus cap-and-trade numbers that Roy Blunt (R-K Street/Georgetown) was spouting last week.

The St. Petersburg Times' PolitiFact.com called Blunt's claim a bunch of "hot air," and gave the assertion their "Pants on Fire" award. Robinson calls the assertion "really crazy." 

Blunt used the same "crazy" numbers as Crazy Michele Bachmann, and still has the same "crazy" numbers on his website:

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study of cap-and-trade policies less aggressive than those Waxman outlined today estimates out of pocket costs of about $3,128 per household nationwide.  Cap-and-trade is a regressive tax structure on anyone using energy or anyone using a product that required energy to produce.  The proposal forces companies to purchase “offsets” and pass those costs along to consumers.