Mark Kirk is doing what?!
GOP Cap-and-taxer Mark Kirk voted on Friday with the Democrat majority to impose a massive national energy tax on Americans in the name of stopping global warming. Rep. Kirk and his fellow capntraitors ignored EPA’s suppression campaign and supported increasing your utility bills and killing jobs despite mounting doubts about both the science and cost-benefit wisdom of draconian greenhouse gas regulations.
So, what did GOP Rep. and aspiring Senate candidate Mark Kirk do today when he returned to his district?
He hosted a job fair! Seriously. From his Twitter account:
Mark Kirk: He killed the jobs to save them.
Chicago pols are really something else.
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John Ruberry has a report on the cap-and-tax protest at Rep. Kirk’s office today — organized overnight and attended by dozens who represent a much greater discontent.
There’s already a Mark Kirk Kills Jobs website.
And the #capntr8ors hashtag at Twitter has taken off.
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Kirk just linked to his latest press release defending global warming science.
Rep. Kirk, meet Alan Carlin.
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Some people are way beyond clueless!
“Congress” is the system by which we identify and send the 535 stupidest people in the nation to Washington, DC every two years!
Stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. Vote for CONSERVATIVES!!!
Those 535 people could not get out of jury duty either
The only people who will give to see he is elected are the d’s, bho, and or wall street. mark you have the gonads bigger than a bull to think R’s will support you.
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I know, I know, I’ve used this quote before, but evidently it even more relevant than before!
Samuel Cemmons was never far off the mark…Same with Will Rogers.
I got his press release in response to an email I sent him. I live in his district. I let him know exactly what I think.
His “Job Fair” is only a mile away from where I live. Unfortunately, I am currently working 250 miles from home. At a power plant.
He is cooked as far as support. He has been a RINO and he won’t change.
Lusting for power, Mark Kirk. What a fool.
The more I think about it we would be better off selecting CongressCritters through a lottery. If you vote, you would be on a Congress Pool that would work just like a jury pool. When it is your turn you go for two years. When you are done you come home and have to live with the consequences of your decisions.
Frankly, it couldn’t work any worse than what we have now.
Kirk’s jobs:
1)Need 100 people to stand still and flap arms – make wind.
2)Need 5 people to pick metal out of land fills.
3)Need 99+ people to replace incandescent bulbs with AlGore light bulbs. 3 people per bulb.
4)Need many to file reports of energy waste/infractions in your community – paying 5$ per infraction found.
5)Need mirror holders for radiant energy kitchens in our communes.
Speaking as one who looks forward to voting against Mark kirk in the Senate primary next year: kirk is an a@@!
There reasoning is their own. I suppose they use the Obama ruse think — As long as they say it, it’s all the dopes here.
Are they all as stupid as Kenyans?
I am so embarrassed to be a resident of Illinois. Even though I had nothing to do with any of this BS in Washington, I feel like I owe the rest of the country an apology. If it’s any consolation, I’m a down-stater…
I think Mark Kirk should have talked to his Illinois DEMOCRATIC counterpart Bill Foster, a former Physicist from Fermi Lab who voted NO on the Cap & Trade bill. Geez a respected scientist who voted NO on the bill, do ya think he knows what he’s talking about, and a Democrat to boot! This guy makes me sick!
Hopefully that little drag queen will need to attend his own job fair after the next election.Illinois does have a lot to answer for with Chicago and Cook County and East Saint Louis. Some of the harshest gun control laws in the Nation and two cities in the top twenty murder rate.
DavidHughes–cubbiegal -move to Arizona, carry a sidearm when YOU want and help us neutralize the Kalifornicator influence here
Hell lad and laddess if you don’t own a pistol or revolver I’ll loan you one of mine.
“I voted against 85 million jobs, before I voted for them!”
Should I ‘invoice’ him for this slogan?
Know how many people it takes to change a light bulb in California?
Seven: one to set up the ladder and the safety harness, one to file the environmental impact statement, one to do the deed, one to apply for a federal grant for future endeavors, one to open the wine in order to let it breathe, and two to just “experience it”.
ArizonaNeanderthal, With ya!…my friend in Chino Valley owns the largest gun/humidor in Northern AZ…smokin’gun and cigars!!! We will be moving to the desert shortly, and…ps.. my fax machine is worn out!!!
How much cap & tax will accrue from the carbon rich hot air and flatulance generated in the capitol building?
If a collector were installed on the capitol dome, they could heat the entire east coast for 50 years, then tax themselves for it, and pay for Obambicare. Just a thought.
Makes more sense than Rep Kirk et al.
Looks like a little day trip to Chino Valley is in order…Like that guy in Flagstaff with a liquor/gun store combination. Gotta love it…getting closer and closer to the ATF as a convenience store.
They kill coal and oil jobs to create wind farm and solar jobs.
The bill shouldn’t have been called Cap And Trade, it should’ve been called the Blow Sunshine Up Yours bill.
and when we regain control in 2010(being positive 50% of 40 % fence sitters wake up) all these bureaucrats are gone, fire ‘em all. Don’t leave any of these kool aid drinkers with in a 1,000 miles of D.C.
Hey Mark, you and your buddies should lay off the drugs and booze before talking to Pelosi.
This guy has been bought and sold.
To People of Illinois,
Please vote this asshole out of the office in 2010.
Let him exhale CO2 inside his house, so that there is less of Global Warming from him!
The sphincter obviously doesn’t read…anything! What? He’s from the Chicago area? Um, never mind….
I FINALLY got through to a number for his re-election campaign and did pass my message regarding my invitation to my mother’s funeral. Bet he has no reply!
I’m still stuck on voting on a bill before it’s read. This seems to be the norm these days since Congressional bills run longer than a Michener novel. Next they will be voting on bills before they are written!
Congress is becoming more irresponsible by the day.
Do we need a Constitutional Amendment that states any proposed legislation must be read by ALL members (not staff), and must be in printed form at the clerk’s desk before it is voted on?
I would even support making them swear under penalty of perjury that they read said proposed bills, after the vote, and add enforceable penalties for perjury, like expulsion from office, and prison time.
The morons we elected will not do it themselves…pass a bill that makes them do their job, that is…
ArizonaNeanderthal:
I have a Cobra FS380 that I bought shortly after the November election; I’m saving for a Springfield XD .45 or a Smith & Wesson M&P .45 right now. Thinking of going through a training session with Front Sight to get a 30 state CC permit (not that it will do me any good in Illinois). I lived in Texas for awhile, and may end up heading back down that way in the near future. With any luck, they’ll have open carry there by the time I’m ready to make the move.
If nobody is going to read legislation anymore, then let’s stop printing these monstrosity-sized umptee-thousand page bills and just submit the signature page. It seems as if congress just parades the stack of paper around for photo opportunities anyway, as an attempt to show that they are actually performing something akin to work. Just submit the signature page with a yellow sticky on with pelosi’s approving initials. That way Barack the empty-headed can just scribble his name on it and get back to reading “teleprompters for dummies”.
I just found out that the dems added a 300 page amendment to the cap and trade bill just hours before the vote. Now is that what they call transparency, huh?
I am not surprised that Rep. Kirk had a job fair. He must be a quick study, adopting the hocus-pocus employed by Democrats.
Here in the Central Valley, CA, there are signs proclaiming job openings are the result of stimulus money when we have not seen one cent of it. One valley congressman with a (D) after his name claims the cap & tax legislation would reduce the (very) high unemployment we have! Btw, he was the only Central Valley representative who voted yes Friday. The other Democrat voted NO together with our two Republican congressmen.
Democrats are very imaginative. How they could intone the same fluff Obama used: that the legislation passed Friday would open up high-paying Technical jobs in the Central Valley, is beyond me.
Our farmers and farmhands are idle. The Feds cut our water supply. The Democrats have put Valley agriculture in jeopardy and effectively added at least 20,000 to the unemployed!
Political disagreements are not treason. Treason is a high crime like murder. Don’t go casually accusing people of murder.
The so called suppression campaign was one guy not in a science department writing a science report he was not qualified to write. The boss told him it could not be released because it relied on too much data that had not been peer reviewed. Correct decision.
Actual economic projections show a very small effect on the economy. Less than a percent in the long run. A small price to pay for saving the planet.
Read Krugman’s column today. The science is not in doubt. Global warming is proceeding faster than predictions.
So’s how is your Kool-Aid, lgm? Got enough ice? Would you like a coaster?
Maybe climatologists should write columns on the economy. Paul Krugman is not a scientist and probably couldn’t understand a scientific paper if he read it. In the 80’s, global cooling was going to freeze us all and that didn’t happen.
Sorry lgm, it would seem you’re contradicted by the the MSM releasing the reports that temperatures have dropped for the past 11 years and the average temperature is no more than at the middle of the century. Again, temperatures will rise and fall, but the “BAD” science that is being practiced is for people to state conclusively and forego debate! Our very short period of record keeping (in contrast to the extremely long period of time climate has existed) in no way gives us the ability to say anything for sure! You are a very closed minded person who has foresaken his pragmatic roots in mathematics, for the mindless passion of the latest fad. Don’t trade what is of most importance (serious thought and debate) for what is offered at the moment (closed minded conjecture). From one math teacher to another, you should know the follies of picking and choosing your variables. This is an equation where we simply don’t know all of the variables and the magnitude that each one carries! So with that as a basis I side in favor caution as opposed to a rush to judgement in passing a bill that could not have been read, and has not been debated (at least by our hasty congressmen).
This gut at EPA is not a schentist, so anything he writes on Global Warming is meaningless. But Krugman is qualified to opine on the subject?
So Krugman is an authority on Science!
I thought he is a book-keeper (ok ok he is an economist). People who flunked basic sciences go on to become economists where you can make a living even if you are wrong on your economic theories most of the time. That’s your Krugman.
lgm, I was surprised that you mentioned both treason and Krugman in the same comment until I read his column. Sure enough he uses the T word against those evil climate change deniers:
So, lgm, you condemn Michelle for doing the same thing Krugman does in his column. Yet, when Krugman does it, you see no problem with it. Hypocrisy thy name is lgm.
But there is a difference. When Michelle speaks of “capntraitors”, she is referring to the eight Republicans who betrayed their party. When Krugman speaks of “treason”, he’s refering to EVERYONE who didn’t vote the way he thought they should. Wouldn’t you say that is turning “political disagreements” into treason? Climate change has become like a religion to Krugman, and deniers are blasphemers.
Krugman goes on to say that the Bush Administration was guilty of “hyperbole” when claiming that terrorism posed an “existential threat” to America. But that doesn’t stop Krugman from using hyperbole, himself, to claim that “deniers” are betraying America:
Now, if by “deniers” he meant “terrorism deniers”, his statement would actually make sense. It would also put him in full agreement with Bush and Cheney. Isn’t it funny how the same people who accuse Republicans of using scare tactics and hyperbole have no problem using scare tactics and hyperbole themselves? The difference is 9/11 happened. Climate Change has yet to kill a single polar bear.
You Know…I read Krugman’s little story…And than I sent him an e-mail with a link to meet Alan Carlin…still waiting on a reply….
lgm said:
Yeah……. Ah Huh…….Yeah!!
Really? Lets see these “projections”
With all this global warming ( hot air ) coming out of Washington DC,I think the tax rate on politicians should be 125%. Just to stay in operation they would have to buy up all the carbon credits in the country. But then the taxpayers would have to pay for that too.
The science is always in doubt. That is the essence of science.
Richard Feynman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGAuKjDlUDw&feature=related
The money quote is at the end — “We can never be right, we can only be sure we are wrong”
Science is never settled, questions must always be asked and so called truths challenged otherwise you do not have science you have a religion.
seamusmeboy said (#36):
That MSM would be Fox. When scientists are convinced, I’ll listen.
vatodio said (#37):
He’s qualified to report what they’re saying. He’s not qualified to contradict them, or to make their case on his own.
Papa Louie said (#38):
Point taken. We all should back off from the t-word.
jah (#43): OK. Maybe there’s a 1% chance that the scientific establishment is wrong on global warming. I would rather act on the 99% chance that they’re right.
I see lgm is till treating “global warming” as islam – AND DEATH TO THE UNBELIEVER!!
I wonder if lgm uses a windmill to power the computer while posting on this site.
This lgm chap has to be a troll who just likes to stir the pot. Nobody is that ignorant.
It’s good to see that lgm’s mind is only 99% closed…
One problem I have with the “scientific establishment” is their poor track record for predicting the future, especially whenever they proclaim “the end is near.” They have proven themselves to be terrible prophets.
From dire predictions about overpopulation destroying the world (see The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich) to DDT creating a “silent spring”, the science of the day has been wrong. We didn’t follow the advice of Ehrlich and wipe out millions of people to prevent the mass starvation he said was around the corner. But we did take the advice of Rachel Carson to ban DDT. That resulted in the deaths of millions of children to malaria. DDT is now legal again for some uses because the science used to ban it was flawed.
We have yet to die from depletion of the Ozone Layer, or from pollution, or from genetic engineering, or from global cooling, or from the “accelerated” global warming that scientists say is occurring right now. We’re still here. These scientists have yet to get one single gloom and doom prediction right. So lgm puts 99% confidence in people who have a track record of being 100% wrong. And we’re supposed to believe them without question. Sorry, but the odds are with the “deniers.”
On June 30th, 2009 at 6:10 pm, lonewolf said:
Bingo! Just scroll on by his disingenuous ramblings.