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1. #741062
   On July 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pm, nail49 said:

   global warming zealots are feeling the heat

   Nice play on words!

2. #741063
   On July 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pm, Fineous Reese said:

   even on ice it stinks (Mel Brooks paraphrase?)

3. #741064
   On July 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

   Hopefully, this idiocy will be permanently shelved.

4. #741069
   On July 9th, 2009 at 1:21 pm, sonofdy said:

   HOLY SHITTE!!! Someone in DC listened.

   checks out the window for flying pigs…

5. #741072
   On July 9th, 2009 at 1:24 pm, sonofdy said:

   Yip, a whole squadron of pigs just flew by my window.

6. #741073
   On July 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pm, verogolfer said:

   Wonderful news. Now if the Senate will just put the rest of Obama’s legislative package on ice…

7. #741074
   On July 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pm, Fat Jolly Penguin said:

   But I thought AGW was a CRISIS, and we have to take action NOW or we’ll all DIE.

   /wait, you mean that’s not true?

8. #741077
   On July 9th, 2009 at 1:27 pm, ClearlyNow said:

   Ha! This happy development, together with the truth about bogus “science” of global warming and the CAFE “nothing in writing” disclosure are celebrations of informed citizenry. How frustrating it must be to be unable to scuttle like they used to do…

9. #741081
   On July 9th, 2009 at 1:29 pm, babbledabble said:

   They are just regrouping so they can come up with something worse & slip it under the table in the darkness of night. You don’t really think they are really going to put it to rest do you?

10. #741084
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:31 pm, Salt said:

    Let’s not get too happy, yet. As Michelle notes, we have to keep the pressure up.

    Senate Dems are probably hoping that the public outcry will die down enough so they can try to ram it through in September. This beast is far from slain.

11. #741088
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:34 pm, Paul Revere said:

    Kay Hagan is too busy trying to learn parliamentary rules to worry about Cap and Tax.

12. #741090
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    I just cannot believe how wussy the Senate Dems are. If you oppose the Obama agenda, you really have to love how ineffective Congress is. And Obama himself.

    I guess we need 70 votes.

13. #741092
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:38 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    #9…you bet…I know my Congressional critters vote against illegal immigration and the other insanities going on but I still let them know how I feel at least weekly…My mailman probably wonders who I am with all the stuff that he delivers…lol

14. #741093
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pm, WarTip said:

    Yeah, I got my hopes up when Congress was voting too but …

15. #741096
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pm, tarpon said:

    Good by September-October the snows of 2009 should be starting up …

16. #741098
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pm, sonofdy said:

    Red state bigot, i guess he will need to appoint another czar.

17. #741101
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pm, nail49 said:

    I just cannot believe how wussy the Senate Dems are

    Red State Stooge: They are NOT wussy’s about anything as they claw, scrape and bite to remain in power. They do that by lying, stealing, cheating, etc., etc.

    We need about 535 rails (not all of them need to go), several dozen barrels of tar and a few hundred pounds of feathers and then we can elect some representatives of the people (not of special interests) to put this country back on track.

18. #741103
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pm, hunter said:

    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:24 pm, sonofdy said:
    Yip, a whole squadron of pigs just flew by my window.

    My feet have been getting colder and colder all day, now I know why!

19. #741104
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:45 pm, wren said:

    If you are calling California Senator Barbara Boxer’s office, be sure to let Sen. Boxer know you will be actively working to vote her out of office in 2010.

    Republican Chuck DeVore is already actively campaigning against Sen. Boxer.
    http://www.chuckdevore.com/index.asp

    And there have been rumors about Carly Fiorina potentially running against Boxer too.

    We have more leverage against Sen. Boxer because we have at least one strong candidate who is already running against her!

    Hold Boxer’s feet to the fire!

20. #741114
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pm, Red State Skeptic said:
    I just cannot believe how wussy the Senate Dems are. If you oppose the Obama agenda, you really have to love how ineffective Congress is. And Obama himself.

    I guess we need 70 votes.

    Ahh the sweet smell of fear.

    You think they are wussy now RSS? We’re just getting warmed up!

21. #741117
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Do not trust them. They have shelved this temporarily because there are more pressing issues, like the upcoming battle with the CIA…we need to be two steps ahead.

    MMW

    You think they are wussy now RSS? We’re just getting warmed up!

    Get Ready RSS – we haven’t begun to fight.

22. #741119
    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:57 pm, California Red said:

    Red State Skeptic said:
    …you really have to love how ineffective Congress is. And Obama himself.

    Actually Congress and the President have been pretty effective at usurping Federal authority and control over private enterprise. And in addinng exponentially to our national debt. And in undermining American interests in Europe, the Middle East, and South America.

    Overall the Democrats are being quite effective at sociializing our country.

23. #741122
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:05 pm, Veretax said:

    What’s PVI mean?

24. #741123
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:07 pm, Socky said:

    …you really have to love how ineffective Congress is. And Obama himself.

    Congress has been ceding its power to the bureaucracy and the judiciary for decades. It’s how left-wing Democrats impose their agenda without being accountable to the voters.

25. #741126
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:14 pm, WarTip said:

    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pm, Red State Skeptic said: I guess we need 70 votes.

    Well, according to Duh One, you already have 57 states (of Islam?) that are available to run things don’t you? Maybe you need to see what he is doing to get their Senators and Congress-Critters into DC so that they can vote too?

26. #741128
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:15 pm, tre said:

    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pm, Red State Skeptic said:
    I just cannot believe how wussy the Senate Dems are. If you oppose the Obama agenda, you really have to love how ineffective Congress is. And Obama himself.

    I guess we need 70 votes.

    I guess all of that “will of the people” and “elections have consequences” stuff only matters when you choose for it to.

27. #741130
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, Salt said:

    On July 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    I guess we need 70 votes.

    Pesky thing that whole voting thing is. Perhaps they should just name a few more czars to make it happen outside of public scrutiny. An unpopular bill remains unpopular no matter how many liberals are in the Senate.

    Who will be the first Democratic Senator to announce that he’s against it (after he was for it)?

28. #741134
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:19 pm, Hangfire said:

    I was surfing online for pitchforks and torches.

    I can’t believe how expensive a pitchfork is, but I’m ordering one for me and one for the boss wife.

29. #741137
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:22 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Everyone close their eyes and imagine…
    Pelosi, Reid, Fwank, Obama, Dodd (now that’s a good one), covered in tar and feathers hanging on a pole…

    Photoshop please

30. #741141
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:25 pm, cheapseat said:

    what happened to that LANDSLIDE obama and congress recieved just 6 months ago. only liberals could delude themselves to believe a 4 – 5% spread is a landslide, and only chucky shumer and howard dean could delude themselves into believing they could find “conservative” democrats in all these republican areas, run them for office, and control them once they are in office. shumer may have a safe seat, but they don’t, and as they see the winds blowing against these commie policies obama and pelosi are putting forth, they are stepping back and looking out for themselves. warm up the 2010 speaker change.

31. #741146
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:27 pm, Salt said:

    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, Salt said:

    Who will be the first Democratic Senator to announce that he’s against it (after he was for it)?

    I shouldn’t answer my own rhetorical questions, but I was curious…

    Looks like McCaskill might be the first jumper on the “nevermind” bandwagon.

    Furthermore, even though the House made a number of concessions to polluting industries — agreeing to give away as much as 85 percent of the cap and trade permits to companies, rather than putting them up for auction — moderate Senate Democrats like Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) say the price on carbon is still too extreme.

    “I’m going to make people, my friends on the left, very unhappy and I’m going to make those who don’t think global warming is real very unhappy because I’m probably going to be working with a group of moderates in the middle to try to come up with a bill that doesn’t punish coal-dependent states like Missouri,” McCaskill said Wednesday on a radio show. “We need to be a leader in the world, but we don’t want to be a sucker. And if we go too far with this, all we’re going to do is chase more jobs to China and India, where they’ve been putting up coal-fired plants every ten minutes.”

    source

32. #741159
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:35 pm, Oink said:

    I emailed my senators yesterday and reminded them that voters in Indiana put them in office NOT colleagues in DC. I also reminded them that we get to vote again. LOL.

33. #741167
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:36 pm, Oink said:

    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:27 pm, Salt said:

    Want to be a leader and not a sucker. That’s a good one!

34. #741177
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:39 pm, spaceycakes said:

    sonofdy said: a whole squadron of pigs just flew by my window

    Ahhh, that explains the cooling of the atmosphere.
    Excessive avian porcine wind!

35. #741187
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:44 pm, coffee said:

    #9 On July 9th, 2009 at 1:31 pm, Salt said:

    Senate Dems are probably hoping that the public outcry will die down…

    Salt, you took the words right out of my mouth. Don’t let it die down, folks! They’ve tried this tactic before with ‘immigration reform’.

36. #741199
    On July 9th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, spaceycakes said:

    This just in…gasoline on a fire!

37. #741202
    On July 9th, 2009 at 3:09 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Here is some interesting research on how to move people between liberal and conservative positions on issues. I would say when you write and call your Reps, remind them that China will gain the upper hand, Americans will be out of work, and voters will be angry with incumbents at the polls.

38. #741204
    On July 9th, 2009 at 3:12 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    I hate to be a party pooper again but keep in mind that the GOP is not interested in stopping Cap and Tax but rather, they just want to add nuclear power and shale natural gas incentives added to it. How do I know that? I listen to the lobbyists. So far, very few Republicans are saying that they are against Cap and Tax but that they feel that THIS bill has gaps in it. Ask your congressman to make him/herself clear on where they stand. Rhetoric is a slippery weapon.

    So call your Republican congressmen too.

    Go Sarah!

39. #741235
    On July 9th, 2009 at 3:30 pm, Flyoverman said:

    So call your Republican congressmen too.

    AGREED!!

    Carpet bombing instead of precision weapons is certainly warranted on this issue.

40. #741249
    On July 9th, 2009 at 3:43 pm, nail49 said:

    Carpet bombing… …is certainly warranted

    Flyoverman: I prefer the nuke option. Let fly with a couple of crowd pleasers!

41. #741251
    On July 9th, 2009 at 3:48 pm, stillontheroad said:

    What bothers me is, I see a shell game happening – Knee Cap and Trade iced for now while the Death to Old people bill gets ramped up and in the mean time something else gets passed under the radar while all out attention is focused elsewhere. These, I hesitate to use the word people, individuals are masters at deception.

42. #741266
    On July 9th, 2009 at 4:11 pm, bjc said:

    *Is that “so call your Republican congressman”, or so called Republican congressman?; It is because of the actions of one John McCain in 2008, along with other RINO’s like Corker, in even giving credence to this myth of man made global warming, that the Dems have seized on the opening and now we have what we have; We need more Inhofe’s and NONE of the others; Sleeping with the enemy or abandoning your principles, one and the same, except everyone gets screwed.
    *Whether it is crap and raid, universal premature death care, Government Motors, or illegal alien amnesty, the GOP should be out there expressing the fact that P-BO and his Clown Cluster have usurped Bin Laden as the fanatical believers in “Death to America”; It fits.

43. #741273
    On July 9th, 2009 at 4:25 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Cap and tax can be reversed if and when Obama and the Demonrats get swept from office.

    Obamacare is designed to drive private insurers out of business, and get employers to dump their workers on the government, so putting that crap omelette back in the egg shell will be a different story.

    That is what scares me more.

44. #741278
    On July 9th, 2009 at 4:42 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On July 9th, 2009 at 4:25 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Ed, you are dead on with your analysis.

    That is why Healthcare is the issue we have to “die on the hill” for.

    Stimulus, TARP, Cap and Trade, can all be reversed. Obamacare goes through and it will be darn difficult to reverse. A lot of time, money and lives will be wasted before it does.

45. #741288
    On July 9th, 2009 at 5:06 pm, right_on said:

    Beware!!!
    
    Global Warming is viewed by as a cash cow for them, their friends and family…it will not go so easily away. Second in importance for them, is the issue of control, and power.

    Look for back door shenanigans, and midnight surprises by these robber barons. Freedom loving Americans need to keep up the pressure, and hold every one of these “people’s representatives” accountable.

46. #741297
    On July 9th, 2009 at 5:25 pm, mattm said:

    Would Algore care to explain how we have only had two 90 degree days in CT so fat thsi year and those were back in late April. We seem to be lucky if it hits 80 and no rain. I want some global warming NOW!

47. #741302
    On July 9th, 2009 at 5:40 pm, jrgdds said:

    January 7, 2007 2006, Nobel laureate, Al Gore famously said that we only have 10 years to save the planet from irreversible global warming. Dolphins are already realizing how hopeless the situation has become, and many of them are are committing suicide by heaving themselves into tuna nets. If Cap and Trade is not passed and implemented within the next 6years 6months and 18days, we,like those poor Dolphins, are doomed. Its so sad.

48. #741305
    On July 9th, 2009 at 5:45 pm, jrgdds said:

    January 7, 2006 sorry for the typo. I was just distracted thing about the Dolphins.

49. #741401
    On July 9th, 2009 at 8:08 pm, dtestard said:

    I got this (hopeful) letter from Jim Webb (Va.) regarding Cap and Trade:

    Dear —–:

    Thank you for contacting my office with your concerns regarding climate change and legislative proposals for addressing it. I appreciate your taking the time to share your views with me.

    Legislation to address climate change has potentially large repercussions for our economy, and as such, it deserves to be fully vetted and debated. Some of the current proposed mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including cap and trade, suffer from inefficiency, potentially high consumer costs, and would require excessively large bureaucracies to administer. These concerns should be addressed prior to the enactment of cap and trade legislation.

    The centerpiece of any climate policy must encourage the development of clean energy sources and carbon-mitigating technologies. We should explore mechanisms to combat global climate change that will incentivize factory owners, manufacturers, and consumers to become more energy efficient. We should also fund research and development for technologies that will enable clean use of this country’s vast fossil fuel resources.

    Climate policy must also be fair. This problem is global, and a comprehensive solution must include all major emitters. Whatever climate policy we pursue, it should not undercut and displace American workers in the global marketplace. Here at home, we must ensure that the policy is fair across all regions of this nation, does not disadvantage the citizens of one state against another, and does not become a regressive tax on those facing economic hardship.

    As the U.S. Senate considers various proposals, I believe strongly that these principles can be applied in a way that preserves our environment while simultaneously fostering jobs and economic growth. Please be assured that my staff and I will keep your views in mind. Thank you for your correspondence on this issue of national and global importance. Please do not hesitate to contact me and my staff in the future.

    I would also invite you to visit my website at http://www.webb.senate.gov for regular updates about my activities and positions on matters that are important to Virginia and our nation.

    Thank you once again for contacting my office.
    Sincerely,
    Jim Webb
    United States Senator

50. #741443
    On July 9th, 2009 at 9:22 pm, purplepeep said:

    Delaying the vote is good in that it gives more time to really drive a stake through the foul heart of Capentaxstein.

51. #741447
    On July 9th, 2009 at 9:27 pm, jangar said:

    Yea, well, my two democrat senators both sent me email replies saying that they will not support crap2tax the way it is written.

    In other words, this will come up as frequent as amnesty.

52. #741450
    On July 9th, 2009 at 9:32 pm, jangar said:

    Is there, like, a reason these morons can’t understand that global climate change/crap2tax bill is nothing more than a wealth grab of the US economy?

    HELLO…there is NO GLOBAL WARMING!

    Therefore, grow a pair and stop talking about it! It doesn’t need debate, it doesn’t need revision, it doesn’t need a re-write. Burry the damn thing and let it rot.

53. #741474
    On July 9th, 2009 at 10:09 pm, madmonkphotog said:

    At the urging of the Houston Tea Party Society, I placed 14 calls today, 7 left, 7 right, to senators about this very issue.

    I have more calls to make tomorrow.

    BTW… Barbara Boxer’s D.C. number is auto-answered, but the outgoing message says her voice mail is full.

    Figures.

54. #741578
    On July 10th, 2009 at 4:17 am, corkie said:

    On July 9th, 2009 at 9:27 pm, jangar said:

    Yea, well, my two democrat senators both sent me email replies saying that they will not support crap2tax the way it is written.
    In other words, this will come up as frequent as amnesty.

    That’s ok. Time is on OUR side.

    AGW is losing scientific support everyday.