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Senate Democrats Put Reconciliation for Cap and Trade National Energy Tax in Budget Language by Connie Hair 04/21/2010 Senate Democrats have included language in their 2011 budget resolution that would allow Democrats to try to ram through the massive cap and trade tax increase with only 51 votes in the Senate, according to a report in The Hill newspaper today. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), top Republican on the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee told HUMAN EVENTS this morning that votes for the enormous and unpopular new tax are going to be very hard to come by this election year....

WASHINGTON � Sen. Barbara Boxer left little doubt she was having a particularly good time Wednesday. Wearing sunglasses, California's junior Democratic senator made her way to a stage on the east lawn of the Capitol, then stood in front of a huge U.S. flag and waved to a throng of supporters as U2's "It's a Beautiful Day" roared through the loudspeakers. "What a great day!" enthused the senator. "This is like giving birth again!" Boxer was celebrating her alliance with Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry to introduce a long-awaited bill that, if approved, could land her in the history books....

Every year, a revised federal budget estimate is published. This is to adjust for any fiscal changes that have occurred since the last budget six months prior. However, instead of releasing the ballooning budget deficit numbers as planned, the Obama administration will deceitfully delay releasing the report until mid-August.

BLOWBACK FROM THE ENERGY TAX VOTE BACK HOME LEAVES HEARTLAND DEMS “RATTLED”

Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth - normally solid allies of the Speaker from San Francisco – called out the House Democrats’ special-interest handouts last month, stating that Pelosi’s energy tax is “the triumph of industry influence over the public interest.” And Clive Crook, writing in the Financial Times this week, noted that Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax “creates a vastly complicated apparatus, a playground for special interests and rent-seekers, a minefield of unintended consequences – and the bottom line for all that is business as usual.”

Listen to delusional Congressman Dave Reichert (RINO-WA) explain why he voted for the Cap and Trade, or National Energy Tax, which passed Congress by a slim 219 - 212 margin last Friday. The bill now goes onto the Senate for final passage. Below are the eight Congressional Republicans, complete with contact information, who voted for the behemoth 1,300 page bill:

The American people deserve to know what’s in the legislation their representatives in Congress are voting on.

VIDEO: House Democrats didnt want the American people to understand the true impact of Speaker Pelosis 1,500-page national energy tax. So House Republican Leader John Boehner took to the House floor and read portions of it to the American people, explaining how it would to raise electricity prices, increase gasoline prices, and ship American jobs overseas to countries like China and India. House Democrats didnt much like it either, and they tried to shut him down. But Boehner asked Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and other Democrats: Dont you think the American people expect us to understand whats in the bill...

Inhofe said the bill, if passed, would constitute the largest tax increase in the history of the country.

This was back during the "Hope and Change" cult-like phenomenon when people weren't (still aren't in my opinion, but I digress) listening to his words, but how he said them:

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today released a new chart underscoring the bureaucratic nightmare that is Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax. The chart highlights the slew of new government programs Democrats will create in order to take and redistribute trillions of dollars from family budgets and workers payrolls in the form of allowances – all overseen by a confusing web of government agencies.

"If you oppose the national energy tax, I say call your congressman. If you think the Democrat cap and trade bill will cap growth and trade jobs, call your congressman. If you believe the American people deserve an all-of-the-above energy strategy that will create jobs, achieve energy independence and a cleaner environment then endorse the Republican alternative, call your congressman.