Barbara Boxer’s eco-power grab
Welcome to the era of “bipartisanship.” Republican participation be damned. Welcome to the most deliberative body in the world. Full deliberation be damned, too:
Six ranking Republican U.S. senators Monday warned the head of the environment committee that pushing ahead with a vote on a landmark climate bill this week would “severely damage” the chances of passing the legislation.
Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) has said she’s prepared to begin consideration of the climate bill Tuesday despite objections by GOP committee members who want a full economic analysis of the proposal.
The six panel members said they would try to block passage of the bill through committee by not attending the scheduled markup. Under committee rules, at least two members of the minority are needed to vote on legislation.
Ms. Boxer then indicated she may try to push the bill through committee without the Republicans: Senate rules allow bills to be approved in committee by a simple majority. The chairwoman urged her GOP colleagues to reconsider their decision and “come back to work.”
“This bill has had comprehensive legislative hearings, with 54 expert witnesses in nine panels,” Ms. Boxer said in a statement Monday. “No climate bill has ever had this level of review and the Obama Administration stands behind the EPA’s analysis,” she said.
The ranking members of the six committees responsible for considering different provisions of the bill — including the environment, finance, foreign relations, agriculture, energy and commerce panels — said in a letter to Boxer they are “deeply troubled” by the chairwoman’s plan to move ahead without the comprehensive analysis.
Although the Environmental Protection Agency has issued a short analysis of the Senate bill, the agency said a comprehensive analysis wouldn’t be finished for a few more weeks.
Like the Tea Party sign says…
FYI: Boxer’s GOP Senate opponent is Chuck Devore. Lend him your support.
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Gee, what a novel idea.
I really am having a hard time trying to say anything nice about d’s! They are slimes.
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Memo to Babsy Boxer:
The economy STILL SUCKS! This is not the time to unilaterally handicap our manufacturers (the few that haven’t moved to China).
They’re all demented.
Her record on illegal immigration:
(”F” ’s on Amnesties and Interior Enforcement)
Oh I feel better all ready. 54 experts plus the Big O, who can argue with that?!
To: Senator Boxer Shorts
From: America
Dear Mam,
Ram that bill through and see what happens.
No Love,
Your Average Citizen
All I can say is there must be some huge $$$ incentives behind the push for this pile of crap that has nothing to do with the environment.
IT IS ALL ABOUT WORLD GOVERNMENT, and NOTHING about climate!
Barack Hussein Obama, Mmmmm-Mmmmm-Mmmmm!
Gotta love all of our stimulus created green jobs:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-10/huge-texas-wind-turbines-will-be-made-china
With a record like this, why wouldn’t we vote in this boondoggle?
I’ll find her 108 expert witnesses in 18 panels to offer opposite testimony.
I think they’re worried about the comprehensive analysis. If real scientists at EPA are providing their input, then there might not be “consensus.” A lack of consensus would severely damage this bill’s chances.
In fact, I wonder if she’s heard something about the EPA work-in-process. Maybe rumors are circulating that it might actually be a balanced report.
Boxer is a joke. She thinks she’s better than everyone else.
“Ram it down our throats and we’ll ram it up your donkey“? Sounds right and any ANY Republican attending
Trophy Wife-My Husband Paid Big Bucks for My Seat so Call Me Senator, would you General- BaBa Boxer’s Committee meeting needs to have that donkey shoved up their’s.
When they say “Republican participation be damned” all I can say is YES, damn trying to moderate fascism, moderate junk science, Just Say No, boycott the Environment and Public Works Committee and watch the news: we are hoping the voters in NY 23, Joisy and Virginia are loud enough to shake the wax out of deaf ears.
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Boxer’s GOP Senate opponent is Chuck Devore. Lend him your support. Would “Vote for DeVore, defeat the Horror still be too tacky? I cleaned it up a little.
So in one week they’ll manage to destroy America’s economy, industry, and health care system with two stones.
Gotta love those Democrats! At least Obama will be able to organize us all into fabulous housing because we’ll all be too broke to afford anything more…
More politics and sausgae making.
Yes, follow the rules, don’t exploit them, but do get the best bill out of committee. Europes opinion, if indeed that is the motive, should not enter into the equation.
Get the reports, all the reports, do the markup, and then vote. Follow the rules, make the suasage, make accommodations and get the best bill.
The best bill is… NO BILL! That’s the point! Everything about this bill is WRONG! The whole concept is based on junk science, it will hamstring American industry, raise energy prices for EVERYONE, … and all this during a recession! It’s not even stupid. It’s suicidal!
Exactly!
You beat me to it.
Kudos to you!
From the New York Times-and only five or six years late:
Gore’s Dual Role: Advocate and Investor
Pay ManBearPig big money him do good work save planet. Now we all live in mud hut, eat grass and live happy happy. Loin cloth in winter not good must ask ManBearPig for buffalo blanket.
Babs Boxer needs to be slammed wherever the opportunity presents itself. We have to stop the Democrats from throwing our country down the crapper, and they are determined to do so.
The big enchilata of the man-made global warming scam is ‘positive feedback’ which is built into the computer climate models from supposedly learned climate scientists in the IPCC camp. Most if not all of those computer models assume that there is a positive feed-back in the earth’s radiation budget and this very assumption is the lynch pin argument they have been foisting on both the skeptical scientific community and the public at large to advance their hysteria that our climate is somehow unstable in regard to increasing greenhouse gases. This profound assumption is the very basis for Al Gore’s ‘tipping point’, the idea that once we reach some ‘magic number’ of greenhouse gas concentration the earth will start heating up uncontrolably and there will no hope of turning it off no matter what we do. Run-away global warming due to a positive feedback senario is the very heart and soul of their climate ‘boogie man’.
I’ve been doing my little part to spread the truth that there is ZERO physical evidence to support that assumption. There are PLENTY of periods in earth’s geologic past when greenhouse gases were MUCH higher than they are now, (10X to 15X), yet no evidence that any such ‘tipping point’ ever occured during those periods. Looking at that temperature record it appears that if anything there is a natural hard ceiling in place that limits temperature to remain under a 22C value, (10C above where we are now), no matter what else is going on with GHG’s or plate tectonics or earth’s orbit/tilt, etc.
Enter Dr. Richard Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi who recently published results examining the Earth Radiation Budget Experimeent, (ERBE), satellite data showing what ACTUALLY happens to earth’s net radiation when it get warmer/cooler – and it appears to be OPPOSITE of the assmuption made by those IPCC camp modelers. Where the models assumed that ‘reflected’ solar radiation would decrease with warming temperature, an unstable system, Lindzen and Choi have found that it actually increases, a more than STABLE system,(sigma>1) – just like a thermostat.
The discovery of climate STABILITY in place of assumed instability renders the ‘tipping point’ idea complete NONSENSE.
First was direct contrary evidence to the climate model ‘hot spot’ which modelers claimed was ~inconclusive~ on the basis of data reliability. Now we have a whole new area of evidence contrary to postive feedback and I can only guess how the alarmists will squirm to dismiss it. Stay tuned…
Oh, scheisse! I wouldn’t have pegged Angela Merkel as an AGW zealot. But, here she is addressing a joint session of Congress and telling them to get on board with an agreement at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.
Unglaublich!
Can’t wait to vote this hag out next year.
Man Bear Pig speaks:
SAWYER: “Alright. Cannot let you go. In the New York Times this morning, we pick it up. Front page story, “Spotlight on Gore’s Dual role.” And they do not- They do not question your commitment to these issues about the environment. But they say you are about to become, perhaps, the world’s first carbon billionaire because of the amounts of money that you’ve made from your investments, from your green investment.”
GORE: “They don’t say that. That quote is from one of the deniers and that, certainly, is not true. But I am proud to put my money where my mouth has been for 30 years. And though that’s not the majority of my business activity, I absolutely believe in investing in accordance with my beliefs and values.”
I am a proud member of the DENIERS club.
“Come on guys, there’s billions of dollars we can funnel to our family businesses!”
Is there a day-by-day or month-by-month temperature chart out there somewhere? That should be a regular feature somewhere saying: “And in other news, the world is still cooling. Sorry Al Gore”
Does anyone remember the SNL skit (when they were still funny) : “And this just in, General Francisco Franco is still dead.”
Boxer, meet Wedgie.
My mother lives in CA and loves Senator Boxer, especially her stance on the climate bill. Mother has dementia and just barely functional enough to not need a guardian, Boxer’s perfect constituent.
On November 3rd, 2009 at 12:28 pm, SpeakEasy said:
Weekend Update, with Chevy Chase (when he was still funny)
How about a Point/Counterpoint with Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi ala
The whole issue of manmade global warming strikes me a roughly akin to two fleas arguing over why the dog has a fever.
Yes! All AGW models rely on positive feedback in order to demonstrate catastrophic warming.
The IPCC has finally been forced to acknowledge that no data exists to quantify the existence of positive feedback.
In other words, the IPCC is now admitting that global warming scientists are simply guessing.
The wheels are coming off the track!
Yes, presumed instability was always stupid, but they couldn’t sell fear any other way.
the nyt finally noticed that eco-whores like gore are getting rich off this scam. times really must be tough at the times. are they trying to drum up a few people who can read by going conservative? gore left office with 2million and now is well on his way to billionaire status. guru of hype gets money from dipsh*ts like google boys and liberal morons.
I love the Tea Party sign! It couldn’t be more true.
I wonder if one of those “expert” witnesses was Dr. Richard Lindzen testifying that the climate models used by the IPCC are all wrong about the relevance or lack thereof of carbon dioxide on the climate. One would suppose that if he did testify, the climate bill would have been pigeonholed by now.
If the Dems think they can ram this legislation through, they got another think coming. It will be their undoing is they use ecoterrorism to undermine the economy. They’ll regret it if their bombastic egos even acknowledge such changes of heart.
Yes, let’s be accommodating because that’s a true reflection of the workings of our Republic. Yes, let’s be like Europe that ceded everything to political correctness and fake science than actually hearing what the people want.
There is no best bill that comes from this committee. None. I’m tired of the gradualist, let’s sneak things through, or give a little at a time guise to what passes as “good” legislation.
She’s a squish and always has been. She may be a “conservative” but it’s a label she conveniently uses to win elections. She still is bent on maintaining Germany’s onerous welfare state at the cost of real innovation and jobs.
Europe’s “conservatives” are our lite Dems. It’s just a label.
In related stupidity, some students at my school, inspired by the 350 PPM figure that was pulled out of you know where, are sleeping outside from now to the end of the Semester/Copehagen to protest using buildings with “dirty energy.” Who says they don’t want use ALL living like that?
That is one of the coolest posters I’ve ever seen. Would love to see Boxer knocked out in 2010!