Be sure to tell your senator you intend to pay Obozo's carbon tax with these.
Posted on 06/27/2009 5:28:14 AM PDT by Zakeet
Hours after the House passed landmark legislation meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create an energy-efficient economy, President Barack Obama on Saturday urged senators to show courage and follow suit.
The sharply debated bill's fate is unclear in the Senate, and Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to ratchet up pressure on the 100-seat chamber.
"My call to every senator, as well as to every American, is this," he said. "We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past. Don't believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth."
Obama said the bill would create jobs, make renewable energy profitable and decrease America's dependence on foreign oil.
"It will spur the development of low-carbon sources of energy — everything from wind, solar and geothermal power to safer nuclear energy and cleaner coal," he said.
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The White House and congressional Democrats argued the bill would create millions of green jobs as the nation shifts to greater reliance on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar and development of more fuel-efficient vehicles — and away from use of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal.
It will "make our nation the world leader on clean energy jobs and technology," said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who negotiated deals with dozens of lawmakers in recent weeks to broaden the bill's support.
Republicans saw it differently.
This "amounts to the largest tax increase in American history under the guise of climate change," declared Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.
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Be sure to tell your senator you intend to pay Obozo's carbon tax with these.
I know there are people on this board who are bent that 8 Republicans sold out their country....don’t forget there were 211 Democrats who sold it out as well.
I believe him. It’s not like he was wrong on that stimulus package, is it? I mean, just today I got ten job offers and I’m not even looking for work!
“We cannot be afraid of the future”
Well Mr. Prez., I am not afraid of the future but I am afraid of how you are messing it up.
Someone with the last name of Gore has set us all straight about this at factcheck.org!
AEP, Southern pulled out of clean coal project:
Obama doesn’t have the first clue about economics, the environment, creating jobs - you name it. This bill is just another national disaster foisted on us by a Congress that pees in its pants every time the “environmental” lobby makes a stink. They are more interested in maintaining themselves in Washington than in what is good for the American public.
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Even if your senator is currently listed as against the bill, give them plenty of ammo to stay that way. Therefore:
WRITE EARLY! CALL OFTEN!
Hours after the House passed landmark legislation meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create an energy-efficient economy, President Barack Obama on Saturday urged senators to show courage and follow suit.
Great wording. MEANT to curb. Not will curb or should curb or even could curb.
The GOP needs to say this: “If you want a Great Depression, pass this bill”
The future doesn’t scare me as much as the Federal government does. What a bunch of out of control idiots! “What was in that bill we just passed?”
Just because you call a dog's tail a leg doesn't mean you've got a five legged dog.
Cap & Trade got 219 Democrat votes last night. Those 8 MoC with an R after their name are Democrats as sure as the sun rises in the east.
“Hours after the House passed landmark legislation meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create an energy-efficient economy”
There is so much editorializing in this first sentence! No wonder nobody trusts the media anymore.
My two Senators are Casey and Specter...no point in wasting electrons with them.
I think this is all a dog and pony show. The Democrats have no intent on passing this bill. They are just trying to make their liberal base happy. But they are going to create a group a Democrat Senators who the far-left is going to be pissed at.
Time to curb Obama.
He’s been shitting all over us.
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