Posted on 06/24/2009 4:43:21 PM PDT by blueyon
Late last night, during yet another closed-door meeting in the House of Representatives, the liberal Majority maneuvered to bring the highly unpopular 946-page energy-rationing bill, better known as the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill, to the House floor for a vote by the end of this week!
Sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, H.R. 2454 imposes a system of "cap-and-tax" in order to combat so-called "global warming." This massive, across-the-board household energy tax is being disguised by congressional liberals and is being sold under the slogan "cap-and-trade," which simply means giving the government power to put a cap on the amount of carbon emissions (CO2) produced by the production of electricity, gasoline, and heating oil, and forcing businesses to actively lobby Congress for higher cap levels and to buy permits for the emissions they are allowed.
Rather than calling it "cap-and-trade," it should be called "cap-and-tax"-as it caps Americans' standard of living and taxes our use of products whose manufacture emits CO2.
(Excerpt) Read more at capwiz.com ...
COntact other congresscritter in CA and encourage them or give the Rs support.
maneuvered to bring the highly unpopular 946-page energy-rationing bill, better known as the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill, to the House floor for a vote by the end of this week!
CBO Grossly Underestimates Cost of Cap and Trade (Waxman-Markey)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278721/posts
Vote Set on House Climate Bill (Waxman-Markey, this Friday)
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Waxman-Markey Climate Cap & Trade Bill - A $1.9 trillion tax hike
FR Keyword: Waxman-Markey Ping Lists: Waxbag-Malarkey Carbon Cap & Scam | Beam me to Planet Gore!
06.24.09: House Vote set for this Friday on fraudulent Waxman-Markey Climate Bill
06.24.09: CBO Grossly Underestimates Cost of Cap and Trade
06.23.09: An Inconvenient Truth: Waxman-Markey Climate Global Warming Bill in Trouble
- - (Al "Fraud" Gore to the Rescue)
06.15.09 Jim Inhofe: Democrats’ Cap & Tax Rush Job: All Economic Pain, No Climate Gain
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Thanks for the ping. I’m on it.
You know, I hear the word ‘emissions’ and I think, how long before this Congress tells us how often we can exhale C02? And,, aren’t they (collectively) a huge waste? I have heard of Ponzi schemes, I think we should call this one a Pelosi scheme. I mean, come on! The woman deserves an illegal scheme to be named after her,,well,,or a disease. I’d settle for that.
And yet- the only topic in town is Gov. Sanford.
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Damn him. His timing sucked. Affairs always trump policy. Most people don’t have a clue what Cap and Trade is. But they are obsessed with an affair in a steamy South American country.
Am I the only one that saw “Time Toilet” in the headline? Sorry! It took me a couple of glances before I got it right. I’m sleepy. That’s my excuse. Carry on!
Have you made your calls, sent emails, got anyone else to ping to these threads? Please do!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m still working on it now.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.I'm sad to say we're rapidly approaching a tipping point ... again.
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
However, we'll burn up the telephone lines and email inboxes to stop this Bill.
Couple of ohio congressmen on the list above..Is there an Ohio ping list?
I will call, email and do whatever I can to stop this destroy America agenda. These people do not live in the real world. I am totally disgusted with the current state of affairs in Washington. I am not sure we will have a country left by the 2010 elections. If we do not change the control of Congress in 2010 the bastards will probably find a way to adopt the tactics of the Iranian government to deal with all those who do not support their destroy America agenda.
I hope they get this.
I really do.
When those energy prices SPIKE, the libs will be finished....
bookmark for morning duty!
Bumping this thread to call in the a.m.
It's all part of the Vision of the Anointed. The Imperial Federal Gov't are the ultimate resolvers of all crises, and thus a friend of the people.
Those who oppose more programs to help the needy are the enemies of society and polarized as such.
Basic Alinskyist/Marxism 101.
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