Posted on 06/29/2009 9:07:25 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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RUSH: You've gotta hear this sound bite from Henry Waxman this afternoon with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, on MSNBC. She said, "Republican leader John Boehner, in explaining  why he was reading the bill on the floor," meaning the cap-and-trade fiasco, "told The Hill newspaper, 'People deserve to know what's in this pile of [expletive.]' Does that indicate what kind of relationship has now developed between the Democrat majority and the Republican opposition right now?"WAXMAN: Since Obama has become president, the Republicans have said no to an economic stimulus bill, are saying no to the global warming bill, they're saying no to health care reform. They're rooting against the country. And I think in this case, they're even rooting against the world because the world needs to get it's act together to stop global warming. I wish they were playing a more constructive role. Some Republicans doubt the whole science of global warming even though the consensus is overwhelming. They don't want to believe it; they don't want to do anything about it. And, meanwhile, the evidence is mounting faster and faster that we're suffering already from carbon emissions. RUSH: I am apoplectic. He could not be more wrong. The consensus has fallen apart. Nations that adopted it at one time and started implementing some of these economic changes have pulled the plug. Australia, Japan, it doesn't work, it only depletes their private sector, it doesn't fix anything, even this bill wouldn't reduce emissions more than two-tenths of a percent did I see, something like that? Henry Waxman is just -- I better be careful. This is just dangerous. It's the Republicans that made the damn thing pass, for crying out loud, Waxman. Eight Republicans -- only four were needed. Eight voted for it, cap and trade. Republicans rooting against Obama, the country, and the world. What do you think he's talking about? They're rooting against socialism. Congressman Waxman, the Republicans are rooting for the country. Republicans are rooting for the world. It is your party, Congressman, that's setting out to destroy what made America exceptional, and in the process, you're going to wreak more damage on the rest of the world than you could possibly imagine. You're an idiot. You are a dangerous idiot. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here is Pat in Chicago. I'm glad you waited. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush. It's a pleasure. RUSH: Thank you. CALLER: You're making me crazy all over again. I watched Congressman Boehner on Friday -- RUSH: Oh, you're going to disappoint me. I thought you meant crazy in another way. CALLER: No, no, no, no. I was crazy because I was sitting here listening to him say all these things and reading their words I'm going, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, and after an hour of this, I'm like, how can anybody vote for this? And this was just the amendment. This created a whole new bureaucracy. RUSH: Boehner did do a great job on Friday, you are absolutely right. I don't know how many people had a chance to hear it, but you ask how can these people vote for it? There's an answer to that question. It depends on whether people want to face it squarely. CALLER: I understand that but, you know, he did what the Republican Party has to do. Not modernize, not socialize, educate, read their own words. RUSH: Amen! CALLER: Don't sit there and say it's gonna do this, it's going to do that -- RUSH: Amen. CALLER: -- that's objective, people say that's objective. RUSH: You're making me crazy here. |
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CALLER: Use their own words because I've been telling people about what he read and people are like, "That can't happen. I didn't hear about that." Talk about going to sell your house. You can't put your house on the market unless it's rated by who? It's gotta be rated. You've gotta have all new windows, all new doors. RUSH: Have you heard about this, folks? When you sell your house, environmental experts have to come in and do a survey to find out if you've got leaky windows, if all the environmental systems are correct, if you have relatively new appliances, and until you modernize in the way they say, you can't sell -- that's in the bill. I'm not kidding, Brian. See, you can't believe it. You can't. It's in the bill. It was in this amendment that Boehner read. CALLER: I said that's not even half of it. I mean he went page by page by page and you're like, oh, my God. This was what's written. This isn't him saying, "Well, this is what they're going to do, this is what's going to happen," this is what they are doing. And they're doing it over and over and over and over again. It makes me nuts. And this is not going to be a country as we know it in the four years it takes him to get outta here. RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: He gets no support, the congressman and the Republicans get no support from anybody. It was nowhere on the news, it was nowhere. It was their own words.  RUSH: Well, now, look. I know that they got no support in the news, but you shouldn't expect that to happen. I'm not trying to depress you. We gotta face reality and we're dealing with an Obama State-Run Media here. Of course they're not going to give Boehner any support or even any coverage or any publicity. But she's right, sell your house, before you can do that, you have to pass an environmental test that some government person is going to come in and make sure you have proper storm windows and if you live in a hurricane area the inspection is even more Draconian. You have to have modern appliances, a kitchen and that sort of thing, energy efficient TVs and this sort of stuff and until you replace all that stuff you can't sell it. Now, normally that would be up to seller and buyer. If the buyer wants to accept some old TVs and a kitchen that's not stainless steel, fine, you negotiate that on price. But now it's not going to be a matter of negotiation. Before you can be approved in selling your house, some government regulator is to come in and give you an examination. Now, just to illustrate how this is going to work, once again I have a piece of property that would pass inspection, right now if this were the law. But do you think some government regulator coming into my house is going to pass me if it's the Obama administration or if it's some Democrat-run bureaucracy? No way. Everything is going to be political and this is how they are going to get people to switch party to become Democrat so that they're not harassed. Folks, consequences are dire here. And all this is happening under this umbrella of this kind soft-spoken very smart president who only wants to save our lightbulbs and save the White House and save the world and who, of course, can be against that, who's for dirty air, who's for dirty water, nobody's for that when that's not at all what any of this is about. Pat, I appreciate the phone call. |
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Anyone who posts a pic of Nostrildamus I’m hitting the abuse button.
Congressman Tom McClintock (R) California on Cap and Trade:
The Biggest Economic Mistake Since The Days Of Herbert Hoover
Rep. McClintock gave the following floor speech in opposition to the Cap and Trade legislation on June 26, 2009.
I had a strange sense of Deja Vu as I watched the self-congratulatory rhetoric on the house floor tonight, and I feel compelled to offer this warning from the Left Coast.
Three years ago, I stood on the floor of the California Senate and watched a similar celebration over a similar bill, AB 32. And I have spend the last three years watching as that law has dangerously deepened California’s recession. It uses a different mechanism than Cap and Trade, but the objective is the same: to force a dramatic reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.
Up until that bill took effect, California’s unemployment numbers tracked very closely with the national unemployment rate. But then in January of 2007, California’s unemployment rate began a steady upward divergence from the national jobless figures. Today, California’s unemployment rate is more than two points above the national rate, and at its highest point since 1941.
What is it that happened in January of 2007? AB 32 took effect and began shutting down entire segments of California’s economy. Let me give you one example from my district. The City of Truckee, California was about to sign a long-term power contract to get its electricity from a new, EPA-approved coal-fired electricity plant in Utah. AB 32 and companion legislation caused them to abandon that contract. The replacement power they acquired literally doubled their electricity costs.
So when economists warn that we can expect electricity prices to double under the cap and trade bill, I can tell you from bitter experience that in my district, that’s not a future prediction, that is an historical fact.
Gov. Schwarzenegger assured us that AB 32 would mean an explosion of new, green jobs — exactly the same promises we’re hearing from cap and trade supporters. In California, exactly the opposite has happened. We have lost so many jobs that the UCSB economic forecast is now using the D-word – Depression – to discuss California’s job market.
M. Speaker, the Cap and Trade bill proposes what amounts to endlessly increasing taxes on any enterprises that produce carbon dioxide or other so-called greenhouse gas emissions. We need to understand what that means. It has profound implications for agriculture, construction, cargo and passenger transportation, energy production, baking and brewing – all of which produce enormous quantities this innocuous and ubiquitous compound. In fact, every human being produces 2.2 pounds of carbon dioxide every day – just by breathing.
So applying a tax to the economy designed to radically constrict carbon dioxide emissions means radically constricting the economy.
And this brings us to the fine point of it.
When you discuss the folly of the Hoover Administration – how it turned the recession of 1929 into the depression of the 1930’s, the first thing that economists point to is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act that imposed new taxes on over 20,000 imported products.
Waxman Markey is our generation’s Smoot Hawley. In fact, it’s worse because it imposes new taxes on an infinitely larger number of domestic products on a scale that utterly dwarfs Smoot-Hawley.
Let’s ignore for the moment the fact that the planet’s climate is constantly changing and that long term global warming has been going on since the last ice age. Let’s ignore the fact that within recorded history we know of periods when the earth’s climate has been much warmer than it is today and others when it has been much cooler. Let’s ignore the thousands of climate scientists and meteorologists who have concluded that human-produced greenhouse gases are a negligible factor in global warming or climate change.
Ignore all of that and still we are left with one lousy sense of timing. In the most serious recession since the Great Depression – why would members of this house want to repeat the same mistakes that produced that Great Depression? Watching how California has just wrecked its economy and destroyed its finances, why would they want to do the same thing to our nation?
M. Speaker, this is deadly serious stuff. It transcends ideology and politics. This House has just made the biggest economic mistake since the days of Herbert Hoover.
If this measure becomes law, two things are certain.
First, our planet will continue to warm and cool as it has been doing for billions of years.
Second: Congress will have delivered a staggering blow to our nation’s economy at precisely that moment when that economy was the most vulnerable.
Please send this to your personal address lists and ask that they forward this message to their address list.
RUSH: Have you heard about this, folks? When you sell your house, environmental experts have to come in and do a survey to find out if you've got leaky windows, if all the environmental systems are correct, if you have relatively new appliances, and until you modernize in the way they say, you can't sell -- that's in the bill. I'm not kidding, Brian. See, you can't believe it. You can't. It's in the bill. It was in this amendment that Boehner read.
Henry Waxmoth is just acting on his “principles”.
RUSH: Have you heard about this, folks? When you sell your house, environmental experts have to come in and do a survey to find out if you've got leaky windows, if all the environmental systems are correct, if you have relatively new appliances, and until you modernize in the way they say, you can't sell -- that's in the bill. I'm not kidding, Brian. See, you can't believe it. You can't. It's in the bill. It was in this amendment that Boehner read.
What would anyone expect?
The government wants total control of everything, and people continue to be surprised, stunned and amazed.
How stupid is that?
What's it take to wake people up? These control freaks running government clearly see the citizens of this country as total complete morons, that couldn't buy a clue.
The last president was so bad he was replaced by a Communist from Africa...So bad he literally made citizenship all but pointless, as the insiders run the likes of McCain.....By that time, conservatives were physically ill, watching the economy slide into an abyss, as they hand power over to another puppet in chief...And all the inner city minorities/communist/socialist/ professional consumers and illegal aliens think is just fantastic.
wow...
10 years ago, all the party insiders and party groupies told everyone that the one world order, globalism, world banks, transfer of wealth to world governments, elimination of our borders was just what tin foilers spouted...It was all just conspiracy, black helicopter stuff that should be ignored. lol...
It's all very real....Too bad so few believed it, or just failed to see what was coming.
Nostrilities is the very definition of a vile scoundrel. Truly despicable.
And vulgar as well as vile!!!
ping
RUSH: Have you heard about this, folks? When you sell your house, environmental experts have to come in and do a survey to find out if you've got leaky windows, if all the environmental systems are correct, if you have relatively new appliances, and until you modernize in the way they say, you can't sell -- that's in the bill. I'm not kidding, Brian. See, you can't believe it. You can't. It's in the bill. It was in this amendment that Boehner read.
Sigh..
Good thing I like where I live.
Our elected public serpents should actually read the bill before voting on it.
Than again, their constituents should actually know what they are up to before they re-elect them.
Reminds me of the line from Naked Gun after Drebin accidentally lets out the zoo animals while trying to apprehend a suspect.
Mayor (to Lt. Frank Drebin); Thanks to you, this city has been overrun with baboons.
Drebin: Uuuuhhh, isn’t that the fault of the voters?
Good post. I didn’t realize that was in this bill.
Hello all, join me in building an outdoor fire pit and burning as much trash and yard waste as you possibly can. Emancipate the CO2! Become a Carbon Sasquatch.
Maybe that’s what ‘creating green jobs’ is all about? Force the owners to make expensive (and useless)modifications to their properties before they can put the property on the market?
Should this garbage actually become law, accidental house fires are going to increase 100 fold. Then, of course, all of our insurance premiums will go up to cover those losses.
RUSH: Have you heard about this, folks? When you sell your house, environmental experts have to come in and do a survey to find out if you've got leaky windows, if all the environmental systems are correct, if you have relatively new appliances, and until you modernize in the way they say, you can't sell -- that's in the bill. I'm not kidding, Brian. See, you can't believe it. You can't. It's in the bill. It was in this amendment that Boehner read.
After all the Democrats’ idea of environmental urgency has priority over private citizens ownership rights.
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