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Tea Party Watch: Protesting the cap-and-tax cramdown
Photoshop: Leo Alberti
It’s not just what’s in the bill. It’s the way they rammed it through the House.
Just like the porkulus: Under-handed, transparency-defying, and stuffed with earmark payoffs and bribes concocted in middle-of-the night, backroom deals.
Taxpayers are mad again. And they’re not going to sit still.
Impromptu flash protests are taking place today at state capitols [...]
The 8 cap-and-tax Republicans…and the 44 Democrats who voted no
Introducing the GOP’s Cap-And-Tax 8…
Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
I listed them earlier tonight, but am breaking out a separate post to spotlight them again.
The 8 cap-and-tax Republican turncoats again are:
Bono Mack (CA) (202) 225-5330
Castle (DE) (202) 225-4165
Kirk (IL) (202) 225-4835 (And he’s seriously considering running for Senate!)
Lance (NJ) (202) 225-5361
LoBiondo (NJ) (202) 225-6572
McHugh (NY) (202) 225-4611
Reichert [...]
Cap and trade liveblog, part 3: (Mini)-Filibuster; Vote time; Final vote – passes 219-212
Scroll for updates…7:17pm Eastern – Monstrosity passes 219-212 with 8 GOP turncoat votes…needed 218 votes…GOP turncoats made the difference…roll call vote link below…
It has been a wild day on the House floor. GOP leader John Boehner is going to read the entire 300-page late-night manager’s amendment into the record. Good to see some fight left [...]
Cap and trade regulations: Do you trust this man?
This is a red flag. On the House floor this afternoon, Barney Frank explained the “placeholder” in the cap and trade bill that apparently will deal with regulations of financial derivatives market associated with reducing carbon emissions.
Frank says he is confident a “good system will be in place.”
In other words: Trust him.
Hello?
Trust him?
Are you [...]
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 [...]
Twisted priorities
Members of Congress don’t have enough time to read through the 1,200-page cap-and-trade (truth in advertising: cap-and-TAX) monstrosity that will radically alter the economy in the name of the environment…
…but they have time to pause for a moment of silence to mark the death of Hollyweirdo Michael Jackson.
Can we have a moment of silence to [...]
What will happen next if cap-and-tax passes? Updated
Glimpse of the future.
Cap and tax liveblog: Democrats limit debate, stampede toward national energy tax
GOP Rep. Pence: “What’s the hurry? What are they hiding?”
Melt the phones: Cap-and-tax target list
The House will vote on the cap-and-tax bill today. Make your voice heard. Phil Kerpen at AFP has compiled a very helpful list, which I’m reprinting in full here. Check AFP site for latest updates and alerts.
Ask ‘em how they can ram through this eco-boondoggle with EPA hide-and-seek games on global warming science going on [...]
EPA plays hide and seek; suppressed report revealed
My syndicated column below slams the EPA for suppressing inconvenient truths about Obama’s politicized global warming agenda. As I blogged early Wednesday afternoon, the Competitive Enterprise Institute released e-mails detailing how eco-bureaucrats stifled a senior researcher who challenged the agency’s reliance on outdated data to support its greenhouse gas “public endangerment” finding.
Breaking late tonight, CEI [...]
ManBearPig to the rescue: Gore lobbies for cap-and-tax; Update: Pelosi tells Gore to stay home!
He’s super cereal.
The climate change e-mails EPA doesn’t want you to see
“[Y]our comments do not help the legal or policy case for the decision.”
Bogus cap-and-trade statistic of the day
Conn Carroll does the math:
Most problematic is their complete omission of economic damage from restricting energy use. Footnote three on page four reads, “The resource cost does not indicate the potential decrease in gross domestic product (GDP) that could result from the cap. The reduction in GDP would also include indirect general equilibrium effects, such [...]
The 60th anniversary of 1984
Doublethink.
Waxman clueless about his cap&trade bill: “You’re asking me?!”
Enviro-nitwit of the week.
Eco-hypocrisy of the day
Consume as they say, not as they consume. Today’s eco-hypocrisy of the day comes to you via the Toronto Star with a schadenfreude-licious hat tip to Don Surber:
How much packaging does it take to promote energy conservation?
Lots, evidently, if you’re Toronto’s Better Buildings Partnership.
The partnership, which provides incentives for energy conservation in new and existing [...]
Obama’s $1,300 car tax
Nobody in the White House is going to call the president’s “mileage and pollution” plan what it is.
It’s a $1,300 car tax. On the working class. On the middle class. On everyone who has responded to the government’s consumption-mania incentives — loosened credit, tax deductions — and bought/planned to buy a new car without taking [...]
The ever-increasing cost of c(r)ap-and-t(i)rade
If you haven’t phoned your congressional reps yet over the ever-increasing cost of the Dems’ c(r)ap-and-t(i)rade global warming proposals, what are you waiting for? Call 202-224-3121.
As I’ve noted before, the national eco-taxes are in trouble with nervous Blue Dog Democrats. But the plan isn’t going to go down without the mobilization of tens of thousands [...]
Stop Al Gore and the eco-taxers
Nightmare.
Support the Cap-and-Trade Tax Disclosure Act
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, one of the bright lights of the GOP in the House, has a terrific idea to let the sun shine in on the Democrats’ massive national energy tax proposal.
He’s looking for co-sponsors of a measure that would require full disclosure of the impact of “cap-and-trade” on ratepayers.
The details via the Republican Study [...]
Why the national eco-tax is in trouble
Tea Party Alert.
Waxman shortcircuits debate to ram eco-taxes through Congress
What do you do when dissenting opinions are dragging down your massive government expansion plans disguised as environmental do-good-ism?
Shortcircuit the debate and skip past all that messy procedural stuff:
Democrats in the House of Representatives said on Tuesday they were still working to pass a climate change bill by year’s end as they scrambled to get [...]
Eco-hypocrite of the week
Prince of Rising Tides
The Thrilla in Vanilla: Gore vs. Gingrich in Global Warming ‘Showdown’?
It’s on! Or maybe not so much:
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has added Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to the roster of witnesses for its hearing on a climate bill today. He joins former Vice President Al Gore on the witness list.
The Hill is reporting the meeting of these two as a [...]
Humans make Earth Day better
From the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a human-centered Earth Day public service announcement:
Make sure to share the vid with your children and help immunize the next generation against enviro-nitwit-ism. Meghan Cox Gurdon surveys eco-fear-mongering in children’s literature:
If you have somehow missed the fact that April 22 is Earth Day, it’s probably because you are grown [...]
Eco-fuzzy math: Debunking a cap-and-trade debunking
Pants on fire!
Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real
Yesterday, Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled:
Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.
The “report” (PDF file here) was one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I’d ever read out of DHS. I couldn’t believe it was [...]
Spain’s green jobs boondoggle
Ay caramba. Look what the green job boondoggle in Spain bodes for the porkulus green jobs here in the U.S. Confirmation of what we already knew, but extremely useful nonetheless:
Every “green job” created with government money in Spain over the last eight years came at the cost of 2.2 regular jobs, and only one in [...]
Obama’s weather czar: Goodbye, thermostat control. Hello, “climate geoengineering”
Photo source: Project Earth
This is not a joke:
The president’s new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth’s air.
John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. [...]
Photo album: mm.com reader’s dispatch from eye of G20 storm
Reader J. is in London and wrote me this morning. She witnessed the “anti capitalist (seemingly anti just about everything) protest taking place in front of Bank of England/London Stock Exchange” and snapped some photos. This morning, folks were trying to conduct business as usual. J. writes, in fact, that there were “businesses on Fleet [...]
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