[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

capntrade passed by 7 votes. if all the energy put into birth certs and ghost authors was brought down as pressure on those reps capntrade would have never made it out of the house..AND IT WOULDNT HAVE BEEN CLOSE! and you know it.

You don't seem to understand how the House works. If all eight republicans had switched their votes, a sufficient number of democrats in vulnerable districts would have switched their votes and it would have passed anyway. The republican votes did nothing but provide political cover to an equivalent number of democrats in competitive districts.

Besides, no one was talking about the BC or "Dreams" authorship last week. We were all 100% focused on cap and trade.

And oh yeah... welcome to FR. Glad you managed to sign up in time to lecture us on what's really important.