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Cap-and-Tax on the Ropes?

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  June 25th, 2009 at 06:33 PM  | 

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According to Congressional sources, the flood of phone calls and E-mails is working. Faced with mounting opposition to their costly cap-and-tax idea, House Democrat leaders have been forced to call a strategy session tonight to figure out how to win votes. They’ll meet again tomorrow at 10:00AM to push wavering Members to vote with Pelosi and against their districts.

Your calls and E-mails are working. Keep it up!

Scroll down a little for Erick’s 3 posts listing targeted Members.

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  • Swamp_Yankee

    It’s 6:30 P.M. in D.C., I think the phones may be off soon. But write emails all night long. To those on the list and your personal Rep even if he or she isnt. Turn up the heat with everyone.

    And call talk your local drive home radio personality. And then call the morning personality first thing tommorow. Then make some more calls.

    • izoneguy

      the stake has not been hammered into the heart yet. Cap & Trade must die a quick & swift death – never to be resurrected. Our economy is weak – Cap & Trade or National Health Care could deal mortal blows to the American economy. Obama has ruined enough and it will take decades to recover as it is. Hopefully many democrats will be on the unemployment line after November, 2010.

    • DONTREADONME

      looks like I will go after the VA senators and local legislative representatives as well to make sure that there is blowback from the state if it passes.

  • http://www.RedState.com/ETCartman Kenny Solomon

    Please remember, that e-mails to government officials are a matter of public record…… Be prepared for ‘anything’ if you e-mail ‘anything’.

    I am, but then again, I don’t have anything to lose anymore, except my freedom and my nation.

    Cheers !

  • LibRick

    Bjorn Lomborgs, book, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming. The premise of the book is that while global warming/climate change is real science, the degree to which it is occurring and our ability to do much about it have been grossly overblown.

    He really lays out the huge burden and opportunity cost that cap and trade will put on our economy and the minimal benefits it will yield.

    Worth a read for anyone …. especially for Congress.

    • http://www.RedState.com/ETCartman Kenny Solomon
      • bk

         

    • DONTREADONME

      therefore there is not settlement in the science. Nobody to date has put forward a hypothesis that has been proven to be correct; therefore, no agreement in the science.

      Look at how long it took for Einsteins beautiful and succinct relativity theory to be proven by experiment. Quite a long time.

      • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

        the absolute inability to get ANY Climate Modler to back-date to past data and predict/follow ACTUAL Climate Cycle/Shift clearly demonstrates that ANY information that comes from them is a potential but ONLY a “projection OPINION”

        related:
        Climate $cam – Climate $cam
        +Cycles/Shift – Climate Cycles/Shifts
        +AccuWeather cool trend – AccuWeather COOL trend
        +Another Liberal Schmuck recognizes, too late, Failed Democrat Enviro-Terrorist policies – Comedian Paul Rodreguiz’s Family Farm dying of Man-Made (read: Dem. Policy imposed) Drought and here
        +China projects – China gets the Flood/Drought Cycles preperation right
        +tidal-gen – Tidal power generation (finally)
        +Earth 2100 – Earth 2100 TV special (Liberal propaganda)

      • LibRick

        The science I was referring to is that high concentrations of carbon dioxide traps heat. This is just physics. The book works off that basic premise and shows how it cannot be scaled to the whole GW thing.

        By the way, I read your various posts on the Sanford issue and was moved by how well you described the real sanctity of marriage. Though I’m a lib, on that point, I felt you were speaking for me.

        • DONTREADONME

          I was hoping I was speaking for few, usually a topic like that yesterday find commonality amongst those that disagree since it has nothing to do with politics, IMO.

      • TNJim

        At least not proof that will satisfy the GW skeptics. As I’m sure you know (yeah, I have a firm grasp on the obvious :) ) it’s all about power and money. They know they’ve overextended on TARP, auto company buyouts, trying to wrestle everyone’s health care from private control, so they need Cap and Tax as a means to raise money, if there’s any left. They don’t need no stinkin’ facts, beyond the ones they think they already have. But again and again, I ask “Where’s the debate?” Al Gore certainly is not interested. But science is supposed to be concerned with facts. As Lazarus Long would put it:

        What are the facts? Again and again and again — what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” — what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

        :Sigh: We may find out those facts, getting Congress to listen will be the hard part, since they’re so bent on a big power grab.

        • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

          and they’ll still be on about GW

          Maybe there is something to all this environmental hype – cuz there has GOT to be something in the Water keeping so many fools asleep at the switch

          • DONTREADONME
  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    we all know what that means… Time to pick a new name to bamboozle it through in some usual Liberal Incremental-ism fashion…. What Bill will they be hiding pieces of it in next is the real question? That, and the “Local-ism” (Fairness Doctrine), Card Check, etc, as well.

  • izoneguy

    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/dan-hannan-leading-europes-dramatic-shift-to-the-right/

    Dan Hannan: Leading Europe?s Dramatic Shift to the Right

    Advice for American conservatives? Only this. The Republican Party?s success depended on its becoming a popular party ? that is, a party that was for the people against the governing elites. Half a century ago, it was a party of big business and old money, and it kept losing: it was in permanent opposition in both houses, and tended to win the presidency only when it fielded a non-partisan Ike-type candidate. Then it changed: it embraced localism, small government and states? rights. It went from being a New England, preppy, country club party to being a Sun Belt, anti-Washington mass movement. And you know what? It started winning.

    My worry is that, in recent years, the party has gone into reverse. It has become, as in pre-Goldwater days, the party of federal spending, budget deficits, external protectionism (the steel tariffs), overseas garrisons, the denial of states? rights (the gay marriage amendment) and, latterly, bailouts and nationalizations.

    I speak as someone who has a more uncomplicated loyalty to the GOP than to my own party, and I desperately want it to start winning again. But that means getting back to basics: to the basic idea that informed the U.S. Constitution, namely that decisions should be taken as closely as possible to the people they affect.

  • izoneguy

    http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/

    The Environmental Protection Agency apparently thinks that manufacturing jobs are too dirty to consider when assessing the cost of the Waxman-Markey energy-rationing legislation that should come to a House vote tomorrow.
    (snip)
    Those steel jobs that have arrived in Kentucky and Alabama already ? and those others that were slated to come to Louisiana ? to escape the EU’s version of cap-and-trade? Forget about them if Waxman-Markey passes. You can probably forget about a lot more jobs, too, that might otherwise have headed for the coal-friendly and job-hungry Midwestern states.
    (snip)
    EPA didn’t bother considering that when telling us how much this program ? which they really really want, by the way ? would cost the U.S. economy.

    Accept behavior like this from your civil servants ? let your elected officials get away with passing laws like this ? and deserve what you get. Or, in the case of manufacturing jobs, don’t get.

  • http://www.RedState.com/ETCartman Kenny Solomon

    I wouldn’t put it past Pelosi, Reid and Congress for a nanosecond to call an “emergency” roll call and vote on whatever they want to ram through.

    PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR “GOVERNMENT”.

    Don’t let up for one second…..

    Keep calling, e-mailing and faxing your Congress Critters and tell them……
    NO on Cap & Trade, NO on ObamaCare and NO on any amnesty for illegal aliens.

    Mark my words, the bulk of the American public is completely distracted by the death of a talented unconvicted pedophile.

    • Karina

      I don’t mean to sound cold but our freedom is at stake.

      • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

        we have to have people understand, we are sorry for recent losses – we don’t want any family in pain – but we have to focus on all things at the same time to prevent all Americans from suffering the pain/sorrow they will suffer if Democrat’s have their way and people suffer physically (HC rationing), financially (Cap and Tax), etc….

    • leftylurker

      I used to love him.

      I have an autograph and photo of me eating dinner with him when I was six or so somewhere at my mom’s place.

      I used to love that memory, until the whole pedophilia thing .

      Sorry to digress. You’re right, there are a lot of WAY more important things going on right now, but man, to some of us of a certain age, Michael was just amazing.

    • Return to Revolution

      Had foxnews on, Arthel Neville said (may have been quoting someone else), “Michael Jackson was to music what Oprah is to tv what Obama is to the people”. *gag*

      Don’t know how much this will distract people who wouldn’t bother calling congress anyway but I’ll be starting my next round of emails….

    • Finrod

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      • 6eorge Jetson

        So the Dem’s end-zone dance gets preempted. Not much effect.

        The effect of Cap-and-Trade if signed into law, OTOH, won’t just fade away with time.

    • George Claghorn

      The whole “You Give Us 22 Minutes, We’ll Tell You More About Michael Jackson” thing is getting very old, and is, quite obviously, an MSM-generated distraction.

      I don’t mean to sound callous, but we really need to get the word out about this.

  • LibRick

    “… the bulk of the American public is completely distracted by the death of a talented unconvicted pedophile.”

    It reminds me of the movie Idiocracy. These people are not drinking the kool-aid anymore, they’re chugging BRAWNDO! (its got electrolytes)

    • LibRick

      for Kenny

      • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

        as I’ve said to others… (see: They Live movie ref)… I used to keep some Idiocracy embeds handy during the Election discussion to put in, pathetic we are living it sooner than we’d expected we would be.

  • redneck_hippie

    http://marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=1383201&spid=32364

    And, as y’all know, every rep and sen vote on this legislation affects every citizen. I’m never timid about calling congressmen who do not represent my state/district. I have no representation in the senate and my house district is safe. I believe in bipartisan beatching.

  • smitch61

    They are going to pass this while the country is focused on Michael Jackson… sad loss, rest in peace…. but we have work to do.

  • briancobbs

    And remind people to call both the DC office AND the district office!

    We can beat this thing…

  • zoltanne

    This Bill will be an economic disaster for America:
    1. higher energy costs for Americans
    2. personal income loss which will reduce consumer spending
    3. negatively impact non-farm jobs with even higher unemployment
    4. negative impact on local economies within the first year

    The hyped illusion that this Bill will create new jobs in the “green industry” does not outweigh the decrease in jobs elsewhere. In fact, this Bill will negatively impact the current industry-related employment for millions of Americans. CAN AMERICA AFFORD MORE UNEMPLOYED?

    My Congressional Rep Frank Wolf, R-10th District, is getting HAMMERED on the phones. Today when the Intern still gave me another dose of her daily-stoopid, I reminded her that she represented a Congressman and needed to be versed in this legislation in order to answer the phones to me, a citizen and taxpayer and constituent to Wolf. She frickin’ hung up on me!

    No matter….when you feed fuel to the fire, you burn….I called back. :-)
    She wouldn’t answer. I had a more enlightened chat with a well-versed staffer and he believes Wolf is leaning towards NO.

    CALL YOUR REP!!! Keep the pressure on. Use the financial facts in lieu of any science because most of these guys can’t think scientifically.

  • janis

    he hasn’t given them his position yet. I politely asked if the young lady had any idea which way he might be leaning and she declined to answer that. Then I gave her my reasons why he should vote “No.”

    And concluded our little chat by reminding her that he’s up next year and she might not have a job anymore if he keeps voting for stuff that ruins our lives. I shall call back again in another hour.

    • pilgrim

      http://www.afphq.org/062509-we-need-your-help-stop-cap-and-trade-energy-tax

      • janis

        Gordon has voted fairly conservatively during the Clinton years and the Bush years as well. Apparently having a radical for POTUS, along with Pelosi and crazy Harry, has given him the freedom to go with his liberal little heart. I will work feverishly to help defeat him in 2010.