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Henry Waxman (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Controversial legislation like the just passed Cap and Trade bill HR2454 are often passed on a Friday. The more the majority and sponsoring Democrat party knows the bill is unfavorable among the people, the more strategizing they must do in terms of timing.
A June poll by the Washington Post-ABC News shows that only 52% of the respondents support cap and trade. That is a decline in support from earlier polls.
Moreover, within the Democrat Party itself, passage was very uncertain. Final passage was secured with a very narrow margin of 219 to 211. 44 Democrats voted against the bill, while only 8 Republicans voted for it.
This Friday was especially opportune given that the weeks surrounding Independence Day are typical vacation weeks, when fewer viewers are watching the news. But the Dems’ stroke of luck was the surprise passing of superstar Michael Jackson on Thursday which eclipsed the bill passage plus any subsequent commentary that would naturally follow.
The details of the plan are controversial enough, without the fact that the 1,200 page bill was amended by an additional 310 page amendment which was not introduced until the wee hours of Friday morning. Late Friday afternoon, Republicans on the floor of the house were asking where the official copy of the bill resided. It took about half an hour to get to the answer and discover that the amendment was still being collated into the official version of the bill.
Did they really do it again? Did they really pass yet another Obama bill without reading it? Aren’t there laws against bringing a bill to vote without providing adequate time for review and debate?
It is being predicted that the bill will not pass the Senate. The time is now to begin calling and emailing our Senators, Cardin and Mikulski (click on the hyperlinks). Opposition expressed from Democrats would be especially meaningful to our liberal senators. See the article from my colleague, the Montgomery County Libertarian Examiner, for impact on Maryland. Let’s not leave any doubt that if the senators make the unfortunate choice to vote in favor of cap and trade, they will be ignoring the will of the people.
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Lies, manipulation, intimidation and bribes were used to force the House to pass Obama’s economy killing bill! House members were not given time even to read the bill! Corruption and coercion have reached levels previously seen only in Marxist dictatorships like those of Cuba or Venezuela.
Obama’s Cap and trade is another giant step towards Marxism — and the corruption, poverty, enslavement, destruction and despair that Marxism entails.
Obama is working much faster than Hugo Chavez at destroying the economy and imposing Marxism. No wonder the Russians are gloating:
From Pravda: “…the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people…”
We must do whatever is necessary to support those ready to defend us and push out all those selling us out to Obama and his accomplices.
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As a nation we need clean, cheap energy -- not clean, expensive energy. I am a Democrat and think Congress is overplaying its hand. I fear cap and trade legislation will double our cost of energy over the years -- even faster for gasoline. Plus, unintended consequences will abound. The bill is too complicated, with too many moving parts. Why? There are 880 lobbyists registered to lobby on climate change and their fingerprints are all over the bill.
Cap and trade will enrich a new class of financial speculator at a cost of billions of dollars to American consumers. It will also drive-out manufacturing of every description. Even non-polluting Microsoft says it will move jobs overseas because cap and trade "makes U.S. jobs more expensive." Cap and trade is worse than a tax because only 15% of the proceeds from auctioned permits go into our national treasury.
And the kicker? We'll never even know if cap and trade ever worked.
--Robert Moen, www.energyplanusa.com
Kerry, Boxer: U.S. ‘Needs’ Cap-and-Trade on Carbon Emissions Even if Energy Costs Rise
www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=45330
“It’s a win-win in so many different ways, we can’t afford not to do it,” Kerry said.“There could be some (price) increases,” Kerry admitted, adding that the “costs of doing nothing could be greater,” including a decline in the food supply. “But there’ll be higher rises if we don’t do it and start to curb these emissions because you’re going to pay more for the adaptations, the loss of food, all the other problems that come along with it.”
Boxer also acknowledged that energy prices will rise.
“In the short run, in the transition, there’s always an up-tick (in prices)”
Watch this and you will see where we are going. Straight from the horses mouth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
From his mouth WITHOUT a teleprompter!
This bill is being touted as the Obama bill.
“The problem is can you get the American people to say this is really important and force their representatives to do the right thing, that requires mobilizing a citizenry…..
Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas you name it whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations, that will cost money and they will pass that money onto the consumers.”
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