Tide changing on cap and trade, fight moves to Senate

June 28, 3:32 PMColumbia Conservative ExaminerAnthony G. Martin

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In one of the closest Congressional votes since Barack Obama took office, the Cap-and-Trade energy tax bill was approved by a very thin margin, thanks to the defections of 44 Democrats who voted against the President and the House leadership.

The final vote in the House was 219 for and 212 against.  All but 8 Republicans stood firm for the American people and voted against this ghastly piece of legislation.  All but 44 Democrats voted in favor of this onslaught on our money and our sources of income. 

8 turncoat RINOS (Republicans-in-name-only) voted in favor of the Democrat-led battle to declare war on American jobs and income.  Here are their names and phone numbers, via Michelle Malkin:

Bono Mack (CA) (202) 225-5330
Castle (DE) (202) 225-4165
Kirk (IL) (202) 225-4385 (And he’s seriously considering running for Senate!)
Lance (NJ) (202) 225-5361
LoBiondo (NJ) (202) 225-6572
McHugh (NY) (202) 225-4611
Reichert (WA) (202) 225-7761
Smith (NJ) (202) 225-3765

Each one of these turncoats should be voted out of office the next time they run for reelection.

The 44 Democrats who broke ranks with their Party and voted against the bill are as follows:

Altmire, Arcuri, Barrow, Berry, Boren, Bright, Carney. Childers, Costa, Costello, Dahlkemper, Davis (AL), DavisTN), DeFazio, Donnelly (IN), Edwards (TX), Ellsworth, Foster, Griffith, Herseth Sandlin, Holden, Kirkpatrick  (AZ), Kissell, Kucinich, Marshall, Massa, Matheson, McIntyre, Melancon, Minnick, Mitchell, Mollohan, Nye, Ortiz, Pomeroy, Rahall, Rodriguez, Ross, Salazar, Stark, Tanner, Taylor, Visclosky, Wilson (OH)

It would be a big mistake to assume that each of these Democrats who voted against the bill are friends of conservatives.  For example, Dennis Kucinich voted against it.  Kucinich is anything but a conservative.  His reason for voting against the bill is that he did not think it was strong enough.  Such is the case with many of the Democrats who voted no.  It is essential, therefore, that you do your homework in researching the voting records of these Democrats before assuming they are to be congratulated.

The conservative 'blue dog' Democrats were split roughly 50-50 on cap and trade.  According to Truth and Reason, out of the 52 so-called 'blue dog Dems, 22 voted YES on this monstrosity.  Here are the names and phone numbers of these turncoat blue dogs:

Baca, Joe (CA-43)  225-6161
Bishop, Sanford (GA-02)  225-3631
Boswell, Leonard (IA-03)  225-3806
Boyd, Allen (FL-02)  225-5235
Cardoza, Dennis (CA-18)  225-6131
Chandler, Ben (KY-06)  225-4706
Cooper, Jim (TN-05)  225-4311
Cuellar, Henry (TX-28)  225-1640
Giffords, Gabrielle (AZ-08)  225-2542
Gordon, Bart (TN-06)  225-4231
Harman, Jane (CA-36)  225-8220
Hill, Baron (IN-09)  225-5315
Michaud, Mike (ME-02)  225-6306
Moore, Dennis (KS-03)  225-2865
Murphy, Patrick (PA-08)  225-4276
Peterson, Collin (MN-07)  225-2165
Sanchez, Loretta (CA-47)  225-2965
Schiff, Adam (CA-29) 225-4176
Scott, David (GA-13)  225-2939
Shuler, Heath (NC-11)  225-6401
Space, Zack (OH-18)  225-6265
Thompson, Mike (CA-01)  225-3311

Citizens believed they were getting conservative Democrats when they voted in good faith for these turncoats.  Each one should be voted out of office in the next election.

The battle now turns to the Senate, where the bill is purported to have even more opposition.  Some insiders claim that the bill has no chance of passing the Senate.  But some Senators can be bought, just as some Representatives were in the House.  For this reason citizens should bombard Senate offices with phone calls, emails, and faxes to protest this bill that will kill over a million jobs and cost households an extra $1300 to $3000 per year in energy costs.

Why bother to put forth such effort on cap and trade?

One thing is for sure, it is NOT a Republican or Democrat issue.  It is a pocket book and jobs issue.  And it is based upon an outright lie concerning 'climate change.'

Despite the outright lies of Al Gore, Barack Obama, Henry Waxman, and others on 'man-made carbon pollution' that supposedly leads to 'global warming,' hard science tells us otherwise.  Gore and Obama claim that 'the science is settled.'  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The only thing settled in the environmentalist extremist wacko movement is the politics.  The movement has nothing whatsoever to do with hard science.

The International Climate Science Coalition is a highly valuable source of current information on the hard science of the causes of fluctuating global temperatures.  It's contributors are some of the world's most highly regarded scientists who vehemently deny Al Gore and Barack Obama's assertion that 'the science is settled.'

For anyone who cares to discover the facts, there is a wealth of information available, including studies, scientific papers, satellite data, etc. that show there is no such thing as man-made global warming.  Temperature fluctuations are caused by a multiplicity of factors outside the control of human beings, such as activity on the sun. 

In that particular report, Dr. Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics stated:

When you have a lot of sunspots, there is a lot more light energy coming from the Sun and that tends to warm the Earth," added Dr. Soon."When the Sun produces less sunspots, it essentially gives up less energy to the Earth's climate system."

And less energy means a cooler planet.
 
"There were very few sunspots in 2008 and by all measures, 2008 was a cold year," said Dr. Soon. And that link between temperatures on Earth and sunspot activity can be picked out many times from past history.

"For example, from 1645 to 1715 there were no sunspots and it was a very, very cold period for our planet. Most call it the "Little Ice Age," said Dr. Soon. "Based on my research, I tend to be in support of a very, very strong role by the Sun's energy input as a climate driver. If you were to ask me about the role of CO2, I would say its very, very small," he added.
 

Indeed, the ICSC reports that satellite data indicate that 2008 temperatures were the coolest in 30 years.  In addition, 2 investigative reporters from the Financial Post totally debunked a report from MIT that claimed without massive government intervention 'global warming' could be twice as bad as predicted.  And then there is This Story , totally ignored by the mainstream media, that reports that 100 top scientists from around the world corrected Barack Obama's many misconceptions and misinformation about 'climate change.'

And for those inquiring minds that wish to dig deeper still into the real truth about the climate, there is this report, issued by Dr. Jay Lehr of the Heartland Institute, entitled, 'Mankind Has An Insignificant Impact on the Climate of Planet Earth.'

The point is that with cap-and-trade, the Obama Administration, the Democrat-controlled Congress, and the United Nations is attempting to shove an oppressive tax increase down the throats of Americans, forcing us to give up our choices, based upon a pack of lies concerning human impact on the climate.

This bill MUST be defeated in the Senate.

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