Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, June 27, 2009 10:15:22 AM
The global warming nutters have taken over. With the
passage of the 1300 page cap and trade bill that most of our representatives have not even read, we have now only to wait for passage in the senate to fully realize the devastating effects of junk science and the transfer of more of our wealth to the nanny state.
Some senators are confident that the bill will die there, but the house had eight defecting republicans; how many republican senators will defect? Here is a list of the House republicans that decided to tax the american people:
Mary Bono Mack (CA), Mike Castle (DE), Steven Kirk (IL), John McHugh (NY), Leonard Lance (NJ), Frank LoBiondo (NJ), Dave Reichert (WA), and Chris Smith (NJ). (New Jersey sure has a bunch of strange republicans?!)
"My call to every senator, as well as to every American, is this," he said. "We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past. Don't believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth."
Even if that were true, we will be taxing energy and business by charging them to pollute so as to generate dollars in hopes they build more renewable types of energy that are less effecient and more costly to operate. Makes sense. Add in the current economic environment and we have a recipe for disaster. More people will need help paying their energy bills, forcing the energy companies to raise there rates even further to make up the difference. And yet we are one step away from passing one of the largest tax increases in the nations history; without even reading or understanding what is in the bill.
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised that once a bill was passed by Congress, the White House would post it online for five days before he signed it.
Now, in a tacit acknowledgment that the campaign pledge was easier to make than to fulfill, the White House is changing its terms. Instead of starting the five-day clock when Congress passes a bill, administration officials say they intend to start it earlier and post the bills sooner.
Of course, the problem with that is like what they did with this bill...
at three in the morning! The democrats added three hundred pages to the climate bill in the middle of the night to be voted on later that day. No five days there either.
It is a big sham and the American people will be the losers.