Cap and tax liveblog, Pt II: Pay attention to House floor games; 14 undecideds; let’s play “Where’s the Bill?”
(Continuing from morning liveblogging…keep refreshing browser for latest updates…)
At approx. 2:35pm Eastern, GOP Rep. Joe Barton announced that there is now a placeholder in the bill to be determined later.
Barton notes that this is unprecedented. He can’t recall any final passage of a bill that has a placeholder in it.
What the hell is going on?
This is deliberation? This is transparency?
Barton continues: “If you haven’t made your deal yet, come on down to the floor.” Waxman is making deals to pass the cap and trade bill right on the House floor.
Barton: “This is unprecedented…At least he’s doing it out in the open now.”
2:49pm: Corruptocrat Rangel chastises Republicans and praises horse-trading, deal-trading on the floor. “This vote will be remembered by the world.”
2:57pm: Dem Rep Levin calls cap-and-trade a “moral imperative.” What would these thieves & sneaks know about moral imperatives?
3:00pm: Overwrought Dem. Rep. John Larson inveighs against sucking up to Saudi Arabia.
Hey, I agree. Tell it to Barack Bow Wow Obama.
Too bad Rep. Larson can’t summon up half his passion in support for drilling in America to get us to energy independence.
***
Via Andrew Moylan of National Taxpayers Union, the 14 undecideds:
Arcuri, Boccieri, Brown (FL), Carney, Dicks, Donnelly, Al Green, Kind, Kirk, Kirkpatrick, Petri, Space, Teague, Tonko.
***
3:23pm: Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan just invoked 9/11 in support of cap and trade.
Left approves of exploiting 9/11 for national energy tax.
***
3:38pm: Shadegg: The science is not settled.
3:52pm: Sheila Jackson Lee back on the floor to brag on herself for “improvements” to the bill and job loss protection measures.
But, of course, Dems continue to insist no jobs will be lost!
***
4:02pm: Barney Frank on the floor. The placeholder has to do with regulating financial derivatives related to reducing carbon emissions. Says he’s confident they’ll have a good system in place.
Trust Barney Frank?
Criiiiikey.
4:05pm: Excellent exchange between chair and GOP Rep. Louis Gohmert. He asks for a physical copy of the 300-page-plus late-night amendment filed out of public view. Chair cannot tell him where one is. Rules him out of order for not making parliamentary inquiry. Chair stumped.
Barton asks chair if there is any rule requiring copy of bill being voted on to be nearby. Chair: Not that I’m aware of.
Barton asks if official copy is necessary to be at desk for final vote.
Chair says it’s at the desk. Barton says it’s not the official copy. Markey tells him to go to the cloakroom and look it up on the web.
Markey says the full bill and manager’s amendment is on the desk.
Chair rules that all the piles of paper at the desk “in effect” are an “official copy.”
WHO’S ON FIRST?
By the way, the manager’s amendment is in PDF form here.
4:22pm: Shadegg presses on access to bill at desk again. Chair says clerk is “integrating” pages of bill.
Rep. Bilbray: The biggest threat to environment is the smoke coming from the backroom deals surrounding this bill.
4:48pm: GOP Rep. Tom Price asks for moment of silence for all those who will lose their jobs under cap and trade. Heh. Request denied.
Rep. Pence: We can stop this bill. We can do better. And we must!
4:53pm: GOP Rep. Barton refers to suppressed EPA Carlin report. “The science is not there.”
Barton cites Spain’s green jobs boondoggle. Costs 2.2 regular jobs for every green job. “That’s not a revolution I want to be a part of.”
5:09pm: Ed Markey invokes “moral imperative” — pet phrase of the Left today.
Global warming cult at work.
Waxman responds with emotional global warming babble.
5:17pm: Connie Hair reports from top GOP sources that Dems have pulled Patrick Kennedy out of rehab to vote.
Yes, it’s that close.
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who’s on first was funny as a comedy bit. This is one of the biggest taxes on Americans ever and they don’t even have the bill.
now they are arguing where the full copy with the extra 300 pages can be obtained…geeze…Markey says the copy is on the speakers podium…just whip out that library card and check it out….geeze this is government at its worst….
what the heck is in this bill and what was added via backroom deals….few if any have even read a portion of it yet they want to ram it down our throats….arg…………may God have mercy on us…
Our freeways will begin looking like this:
http://www.traveladdicts.connectfree.co.uk/China/Images/Rush_hour_in_Guilin.jpg
Now that is what i call PROGRESS!
/sarcoff
Comrades I’m working on Al Green with all I’ve got, somebody give me a hand please!
on all fours?
They aren’t called PROGRESSIVES for nothing. This is the future envisioned for we prols – commuting on bicycles (made in China) and using public transportation (in vehicles made in China) while the Chinese progress to driving GM cars.
That means NONE of them have read the bill that will re-structure the entire us economy. NONE OF THEM.
WHAT THE FLYING F&*K ARE THEY THINKING????
Un-freaking believable.
That’s all I can think of to say.
This is a crucial day in American history
with the debate suppressed, and the data falsified, this really becomes a Vote to Sink- as swimming will quickly become impossible!
If the clerk is
integrating”, it’s NOT an official copy. I can’t believe that twit stands up with her gavel and tells bald faced lies about House rules.
Shhh, Michelle, I think Cheddar has gone for a nap, don’t wake him up.
Shameful. Just shamefull. They should all be removed from office. How can anybody re-elect any of these clowns?
Has anyone read the freaking bill?
In more ways than one.
Finally got through to Rep. Neil “Quasimodo” Abercrombie’s office.
Left a message:
B A S T A R D !
We’re being snowed big time. I called and asked where I could see the bill. Not yet available.
This should not be legal. They are supposed to represent and they are hiding behind their curtain.
I sure hope there are one heck of a lot of democrat voters who are kicking themselves right now. I know of a couple I mentally kick daily.
AND
Shouting to the world: I hope you dem voters pay out the a$$ in electricity bills!
Would love to see a poll of dems who wish they’d have stayed home in 08.
sooo mad
I simply want to cry that my country has come to this. Horse trading votes on the floor of Congress. Ignoring constituents, suppression of the facts, bill after bill scheming to totally unsettle the constitution and to ensure spreading the wealth of those who have worked hard for years to realize the American dream to those who are politically correct, bow to the almighty Zero and sit on their butts with their hands out.
It seems every week we are fighting another battle and we are losing badly. Now it’s come down to simply putting placeholders in bills where they don’t want the details to get out!
I not only don’t have a President, I don’t have representation because representatives are only voting for their beliefs regardless of my pleas.
And the bottom line: there’s nothing I can do about.
Hubby tried to send a note via house.gov to our rep (Bean D-IL). Site’s down.
There isn’t even a full copy on the house front desk so no way.
I had to turn C-SPAN off. These are the people we elected? I am ashamed that this is what we have for a government. The bill apparently is in 2 parts where amendments were issued at 3 am that override the original bill, yet the original bill is the only item being debated. It has become a circus when Waxman is giving out gifts right on the floor for going with his bill. Again no one has read it. It does nothing to make us energy independent, but will destroy what’s left of this country. I am so mad. I cannot believe that this is our government . You can see the partisan sides fighting it out. The GOP is getting the short end of the stick on every debate. If this passes we are done, but this is what Obama wants. Welcome to the NEW AmeriKA. How do you like this HOPE and CHANGE!
and so of course we can expect that the vote will be about 10 minutes after the first person gets a copy of the vote?
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION..KILL KING GEORGE !
On June 26th, 2009 at 4:33 pm, katablog said:
Cling to religion and firearms.
Guru Tugginmypudha (Ben Kingsley): “Good distraction frees us from emotional pain. Bad distraction gives you a mouth full of whizz.”
I can’t imagine those who are so PRO Cap and Tax would be shutting down phone lines and websites to send their notes of support.. right?
Voting without reading the stimulus and then cap and trade bills.
+
Placeholders
If this isn’t something that needs to be used over and over during the campaigns of 2010 and 2012, I don’t know what is.
We can’t forget this utter disregard for our country and its citizens.
Okay, and what will that do towards the gas and electric bills?
Bilbray is the man. San Diego County, I hope San Diego remains the sane area of the failed state of California. I want to see the faces of the Cali voters who voted for change when they start seeing the price of energy, goods and services. I’m so ready with the I told you so, they will return with how it is Bush’s fault though. Sigh.
Why is that always the mantra these days? What makes you think we can recover from 2009 and all the garbage that has been passed?
Jane Bullard: “Now, Guru Pitka here obviously has a plan. So, Guru, enlighten us. What is your plan?”
Guru Pitka: “Frankly, this is completely unexpected, and I’m scared sh!tless.”
why are they bothering? Oh, I know…to “appear” legitimate. Never mind…
President Dale: “I want the people to know that they still have two out of three branches of the government working for them, and that ain’t bad.”
So, the “financial derivatives” will give them absolute control over every single business in America. The End will then begin. I’d bet my last nickle on it.
You’re right. There’s nothing we can do to keep it from happening, either.
No way out of this but the HARD way.
I called my Congressman Richard Neal’s (D) local office this morning. I could not get through to the DC one. They actually listened to me! They would not state where he stood on the bill but I think he is getting a lot of pressure from his constituents.
Things do not look good for the supporters of the bill. Are some actually starting to listen?
Where’s the proof that this will create millions of green jobs?
Where are the companies?
Where are the lines of investors waiting for their chance to put money into these as of yet, non existing green companies with all of those jobs that the out of work people will need?
These people just spout things off so often that they just see them as fact after a while.
Russ Cargill (Albert Brooks): “I’ve narrowed your choices down to five unthinkable options. Each will cause untold misery…”
President Arnold Schwarzenegger (Harry Shearer): “I pick number three.”
Russ Cargill: “You don’t even want to read ‘em first?”
President Arnold Schwarzenegger: “I was elected to lead, not read. Number three!”
Just called my Representative D. Nick Joe Rahall, and his receptionist assured me that he was planning to vote against this bill. Let’s see if he follows through.
Just don’t throw Glenn Beck out with the bathwater!
You keep dreaming that “won’t state where he stands on the bill” means anything but 1) not popular to tell you where he stands on the bill; or 2) hasn’t made his deal with Waxman yet.
Trust me – they ain’t listening. Turn on the TV!
ya know this mutual pat themselves on the back crapola is so sickening….it makes me want to barf….they are so full of it…
this tune says it all….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHf1iH71JH8
Russ Cargill: “Springfield has become…”
Man in Crowd: “Whoo! Springfield!”
Russ Cargill: “…the most polluted city in the history of the planet.”
Krusty the Clown: “Drama queen!”
Russ Cargill: “To prevent your poisons from spreading, your government has sealed you all within this dome. (Crowd gasps) Believe me, it’s the last thing we wanted to do. I do own the company that makes the dome, but that’s beside the point.”
Moe: “What, are you telling us we’re trapped like rats?”
Russ Cargill: “No, rats can’t be trapped this easily. You’re trapped like… carrots.”
Boy katablog, you may be madder than even me! Mantra?, call it what ever you want but news overlays news and we must not forget the FACTS as we go to vote. I want factual talking points this next go round. No more Ms. Nicegal with my dem associates, I’ll drum talking points, statistics and facts down their throats.
Not that you would katablog, but don’t lose hope (eeeekk, he’s ruined that word).
Wow guy on the floor now says that one paragraph gives the EPA the ability to regulate ANY gas it feels is a green house gas, and makes the rest of the bill moot.
We need to make sure anybody who votes in favor of the Cap & Tax bill is VOTED OUT OF OFFICE!
Step 1
Call AND e-mail your congressperson today at ALL of their offices to tell them if they vote in favor of this bill you will vote them out of office.
Step 2
Find out who is runnning against each congressperson who votes in favor of this bill. Then work hard to visibly support candidates who oppose this bill!
If opposition candidates have not been identified yet, work with your local party leadership to find good candidates now.
It is not the most sophisticated palce on the Web, but look up any global warming article on Yahoo News and read the comments.
I have NEVER seen this much anger. The entry with the most positive votes read, “Pass it and you democrats are out in 2010.”
I have not learned how my Demo Lemming Congressman is going to vote or voted. I can guess. He’s a tool.
Russ Cargill: “And to make sure nobody else gets out, I want roving death squads around the perimeter 24/7. I want 10,000 tough guys, and I want 10,000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher. And here’s how I want ‘em arranged: tough, tough, soft, tough, soft, soft, tough, tough, soft, soft, tough, soft.”
EPA Official (Dan Castellaneta): “Sir, I’m afraid you’ve gone mad with power.”
2012 – EPA has designated Barney Frank a green house gas.
I claim temporary insanity for my previous hopeful thoughts.
Ditto that! Maybe it’s because O’Reilly’s background is in celeb news. What did he used to do ‘Inside Addition’ or something like that. EEEEGGAAADDSS! Least we forget the daily update on Britney Spears we had to listen to from Shephard Smith for a year running.
Man in Booth (Harry Shearer): “Welcome to Alaska. Here’s a thousand dollars.”
Homer: “Well, it’s about time, but why?”
Man in Booth: “We pay every resident a thousand dollars to allow the oil companies to ravage our state’s natural beauty.”
Homer: “I’m home.”
I was going to say….
You know they are going to pass this bill.
Oh, the image that invokes! That is so wrong!!
Tom Hanks (Himself): “Hello, I’m Tom Hanks. The U.S. government has lost it’s credibility, so it’s borrowing some of mine.”
Let see you cannot contact your rep nor senator, yet they cramp more taxes down our throat. The voting on the floor is a circus. Seems like a throw back to 1766. Charles adams quotes,
No modern revolution was deeper rooted in taxation than the revolt of the Thirteen Colonies in British North America. British taxation not only caused the revolution, but perhaps most important, it acted as a unifying force in the colonies. The once disorganized and squabbling colonies rallied around the cause of taxation without consent, took up arms against the British, and finally formed the United States of America. The American independence movement was not deep-rooted; it began in 1766 when colonial leaders met to protest British taxes under the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act Congress, as it was called, was the real birthplace of the United States
Homer: “Listen to me, all of you. We are staying. We have a great life here in Alaska, and we’re never going back to America again!”
Nancy Pelosi is presiding over the Group “W” Bench.
Russ Cargill: “Your government has realized that putting you inside this dome was a terrible mistake. Therefore we’re commencing with Operation Soaring Eagle… (Crowd chears) …which involves killing you all. (Crowd groans)”
***UPDATE****
Our freeways will begin looking like this:
http://gallery.venturacountystar.com/Images/21232.jpg
Now that is what I call PROGRESS!
/sarcoff
Sorry about the false alarm earlier.
Still stocking up on beans & rice!!!
The details don’t matter when you belong to a party where the only thing that counts is “good intentions”. Arthur Caplan, in his mindless rantings on msnbc.com, makes that perfectly clear. He’s talking about health reform here, but it could just as well apply to the climate bill or any bill the Democrats put forward:
Later Caplan lets his true biases slip in when he refers to the “well-intended Obama administration.” Details don’t matter, but intentions do. If there’s a clearer expression of the liberal/progressive mindset than this article, I’d like to know about it.
I have called, emailed and FAXed my Rep, Joe Courtney CT. He has a ultimatum form me, vote no or I will not support you for re-election.
I would like to have a job thank you very much.
****UPDATE***UPDATE***UPDATE****
Our freeways are going to be filled wuith these cars:
http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2008/08/13/wind-car-2_3ejGX_7071.jpg
Now that’s what i call PROGRESS!
/sarcoff
I shouldn’t mention Group “W” Bench. I’m always dating myself. Must be a Freudian petticoat.
Any update on the 14 who are still undecided?
I’d like to see if we could target them quickly.
What’s Al Green’s (TX) number?
Al Green 713-383-9234 or to get a busy signal 202-225-7508
Does Obama-care cover that rehab?
Thx Dan!
Redstate.com has the names and their numbers.
Looks like Patrick Kennedy was in rehab because of “stress”.. Would be a shame for him to have a relapse of “stress” getting thrown into the middle of this mess..
If the GOP had any nerve at all they would simply walk out of the Capitol and go home. I wonder if that might send a message to the nation.
This is not representative government. This is corrupt, Marxist, anti-American, insanity!
This cannot end well…
Patrick Kennedy’s rehab ~
He’s the Congressman who crashed his car at 1 a.m. while “possibly” drunk. That little problem disappeared!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_J._Kennedy
I’m sure his rehab is for “stress.”
GOP Rep. Louis Gohmert is a good man. I spoke with him for about 15 minutes in the cloakroom when I was there for the “Texas Tea” Party last August.
There are a few good men and women in the House of Representatives. And thank God they are not taking this travesty lying down.
Called the office of Rep. Green. The lady who answered was very polite. She asked my name after I told her why I called and then wanted my zip code. I explained that I was not from Texas but Nevada and that I was calling because he was undecided and I was hoping to help persuade him to vote against this bill.
I then told her that even though I was not from Texas, I am from Nevada and that is in the United States and so his vote is important to me as we are all citizens of the same country and will be affected by this.
My own reps are pretty well set on their vote. Shelley Berkley is a solid Dem vote, Dean Heller is a solid Republican vote and Dina Titus has her head so far up Obo’s butt that she has no clue what is going on, but she’ll vote the way Harry Reid tells her.
God help us.
Okay. I bought more stripper clips for my M1938 Mosin-Nagant carbine, and I’m sitting here loading 7.62x54R rounds into them as we speak. One thing about the M-N: it always works.
If anyone reading this considers the above paragraph a threat, they don’t know me. I don’t make threats; I make promises.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force! Cap-and-trade, anthropomorphic global warming…excuse me – climate change, and “stimulus packages” are criminal scams. Anyone wondering why our Founding Fathers included the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights are invited to review the coverage of the protests in Teheran. The resistance is here; the resistance is now! RESIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ECS
Boehner on the floor now.. firing it up..
fun.
http://c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx
Waxman the worm just tried to cut of John Boehner’s speech where is he reading parts of the 3am amendment and doing a pretty good job of showing the holes and ridiculous provisions in this bill.
I don’t understand all of the procedures, but he has been allowed to continue.
John Boenher just handed Henry Waxman his Lunch. Boenher is reading through the 300 page ammendment “dropped” in the hopper at 3:09am.
Does it do any good to call if the Congressmen/women are not from your state?
God… PLEASE help us!!!
They’re pulling an active druggie/alkie out of rehab as a tie-breaker?!?!?!?
- Friend of Bill W. 20 years
Boehner is awesome! Waxman tried to shut him down but, the secratary gave him the floor. He is kicking butt on Waxman and his 300 page amendments
I noticed the seats are filling up behind Boehner. They are animated and clapping and laughing at the sheer inanity in this BS bill. I hope the right people are getting it.
Well, I couldn’t get through on the phone, and the Write Your Rep site is hosed and just throwing an error. I hope that means that more than a few people are calling and writing.
Republicans seem to be putting forth a united front against this. If it passes, there will be no doubt how and who passed it.
Please God … is there really some hope for we the people? Think a letter from the Philippines would be any good? Anyone in Nevada that could send a letter of thanks from my addy there?
I’m from Nevada
FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Boehner nailed it.
Waxman, the PUTRID worm.
FIFM
My sincere apologies to putrid worms everywhere.
Boehner ~ FREEDOM!
Mark Levin just said that Queen worm Pelosi wouldn’t have come to the floor if she doesn’t have the votes so I guess it’s on.
Patrick Kennedy is still in rehab??? Why does RI keep sending this c*** back to DC?
I tape what I watch on FNC so I can fast forward through the junk including the political spin misters. It’s much more fun.
Actually the MJ stuff has parallels to our current economic crisis. Just like MJ, the economy will be DOA thanks to all in DC.
Maybe it’s time for a national strike. The economy doesn’t work at all without the rest of us!
Would you be willing to send a letter to Boehner from your IP on my behalf? I can legally vote again now. IP addresses from the Philippines do tend to get ignored or blocked it seems.
How?
Hard to be optimistic about our future when the leaders of out country pretend that a scam even more devious than the “Oil for Food” scam is a real program for mankind.
Hard to be optimistic about our future when the leaders of our country pretend that a scam even more devious than the “Oil for Food” scam is a real program for mankind.
Well, this is it. Not looking good.
Ok, does anybody see how ludicrous this senario is:
Dems are calling a Kennedy back to the house from REHAB for crying out loud..to vote. Oh My Gosh!
Who are the 7 Republicans who voted yes???
I WANT NAMES!