Cap and trade liveblog, Pt II: Pay attention to House floor games
By Michelle Malkin • June 26, 2009 02:42 PM (Continuing from morning liveblogging…)
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 is deliberation?
Barton continues: “If you haven’t made your deal yet, come on down to the floor.” Waxman is making deals to pass the cap and trade bill right on the House floor.
Barton: “This is unprecedented…At least he’s doing it out in the open now.”
It sounds like Waxman is trying to buy his way to victory right on the floor of the House.
>>Barton notes that this is unprecedented. He can’t recall any final passage of a bill that has a placeholder in it.<<
I am watching c-span and caught that, what is a placeholder?
I just saw that. The speaker admonished Barton to “address all comments to the chair.” I guess she doesn’t understand the difference between addressing someone and referring to him in the third person.
They put in a placeholder? In other words, nobody knows what they’re voting for? This is awful. Who wants this bill, and what are the Democrats doing in trying to ram it through? I mean, what are they really doing, not what the title of the bill says.
Elsewhere, earlier:
To: AKSurprise
Carbon ‘credits’ for purchase and credit default swap trading like sub-prime mortgages.
Ever-increasing US dollars for the UN corruption (carbon for food)
Oh, and China and India don’t have to play, either.
Now they’re just voting on a blank page for 0bama to write in whatever the demons behind him put on paper? Hey, Soros, how ya’ doing today?