If you head tune in to CSPAN (and let’s admit it: what better way is there to spend a Friday evening), you’ll see House Republican Leader John Boehner reading the Democrat energy bill. We have received the following statement from Boehner’s office:
Subject: The “Fili-Boehner” on Speaker Pelosi’s National Energy Tax
Folks - Last night, at 3 AM, the House Democrats released a 300-page amendment to their 1,200-page national energy tax legislation. No one - not one single Member of Congress - has read the bill that the Democratic Leadership is bringing up for a vote today. Speaker Pelosi promised the American people at least 24 hours to read a bill before a vote in her “New Direction for America” document distributed in 2006 that remains on her website today. Another broken promise from Washington Democrats.
So House Republican Leader John Boehner is reading portions of it to the American people. By tradition, three Members of the House have the right to deliver unlimited floor remarks - the Speaker, the Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader. This is the House equivalent of the filibuster in the Senate. We expect it may take a while, but Members of Congress, and - more importantly - the American people have a right know what the House is voting on.
If Democrats manage to muster the votes to pass this monstrosity, let’s at least make it uncomfortable for them. I mean, it couldn’t be as uncomfortable for them as their re-election runs in 2010, but it’s a start.
And one minor note: how important is this to the Obama agenda? House Democrat leaders are risking Patrick Kennedy’s sobriety on it:
it is not a goof, its true, that Rep Pat Kennedy, D-RI, was imported in from rehab to vote for the energy bill
Don’t Democrats claim to care about getting sick people they help they need? Perhaps they just figure he’s a lost cause.
Great post
victor_cocchia Friday, June 26th at 6:38PM EDT (link)Thanks for keeping us up to date on the goings-on in the house.
In case anyone missed one particular tidbit that is going to kill middle class America in the future anyone selling their house will have to have an energy inspector come out to certify it. Doors, windows, heaters, appliances. Will all have to be government approved and meet government standards or be replaced before being sold. As well this bill will even control painting your home.
All of this will cost many homeowners enough to prove it not feasible to sell their homes, or if they do, pass the cost on to the buyer, thereby Inflating costs.
Just another example of how little this adminstration, the leadership of the house and the left in general cares for middle America.
..but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 29
Watched the filibuster...
grumpy_old_soldier Friday, June 26th at 6:43PM EDT (link)Called Perriello (D-VA), his office said that he favors the bill. I asked her to inform the Congressman that we would be voting him out of office at the end of his term.
All Peloski could say after all the boo's recorded for Waxman was this bill create JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS
bobojake Friday, June 26th at 6:49PM EDT (link)Sorry Nancy but in rambo the vulgar obamas’ buddy I did not see any freakin JOBS in your forney fraudulent legislation. Just loss of Freedom.
How many Amercian Voters can be on unemplyment pay at one time 60,000,000 million. What a fraud.
All Peloski could say after all the boo's recorded for Waxman was this bill create JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS
bobojake Friday, June 26th at 6:49PM EDT (link)Sorry Nancy but in rambo the vulgar obamas’ buddy I did not see any freakin JOBS in your forney fraudulent legislation. Just loss of Freedom.
How many Amercian Voters can be on unemplyment pay at one time 60,000,000 million. What a fraud.
She means government jobs
TNJim Friday, June 26th at 6:57PM EDT (link)Gotta have the bureaucrats in place to try to administer this beast if it gets passed.
“No. You can’t” -Moe Lane
The last thing America needs is more government drones
izoneguy Friday, June 26th at 7:01PM EDT (link)We need to be getting rid of drones….
The next conservative president should not be compassionate.
They need to be ruthless and slice the federal workforce to the bone.
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
Amen nt
TNJim Friday, June 26th at 7:04PM EDT (link)“No. You can’t” -Moe Lane
As a Polock, I am Offended By This Comment
Swamp_Yankee Friday, June 26th at 6:58PM EDT (link)… she aint one of ours !!!
Not Dead Yet!
JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS
izoneguy Friday, June 26th at 6:58PM EDT (link)As Biden said a three letter word….
JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS
Like the ones the “stimulus” was supposed to create?
JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS
Like the ones we will lose under Cap & Trade
JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS
Like the ones we lose to the tune of 500,000 each month???
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
I just love how
Steph C Friday, June 26th at 6:54PM EDT (link)the Dems keep saying we’re leaving a legacy to our children. I’m trying to figure out what exactly that legacy is.Homelessness? Starvation? Any other ideas?
I suppose if cow poots can be legislated, beans, onions, garlic, and cabbage will be outlawed foods as well.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics
Kinda like the legacy
izoneguy Friday, June 26th at 6:59PM EDT (link)that Radical Islam has left the children of Iran
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
55555 nt
TNJim Friday, June 26th at 7:02PM EDT (link)“No. You can’t” -Moe Lane
Death by radical Islam?
Steph C Friday, June 26th at 7:26PM EDT (link)Or death by radical environmentalism?
Some choices, huh?
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics
same thing really
kyle8 Friday, June 26th at 7:29PM EDT (link)both are radical, coercive, irrational hate filled religious movements.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Steph, you won't have to outlaw what no one will be able
janis Friday, June 26th at 7:02PM EDT (link)afford or, possibly, grow legally. Yes indeed, the idea of there being a black market for cabbages and beans is quite the legacy, isn’t it? Sounds about right for serfs some 600 years ago.
Democrats, they’re all about what’s good for us……..even if it kills us.
I'll keep my produce growing till after the Senate vote. nt
Steph C Friday, June 26th at 7:27PM EDT (link)“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics
John Boehner for President!
Ausonius Friday, June 26th at 7:03PM EDT (link)He has the looks, the voice, and as of right now at least, the correct notion on what constitutes leadership!
Good-bye Mark Sanford: Hello John Boehner!
Six REPs voted for the bill so far
Common_Cents Friday, June 26th at 7:07PM EDT (link)I hope they are walking or riding their bike to work.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.” Napoleon - Well, unless he is ruining your country! Common Cents
A cult of personality arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships.
I pray the margin of victory is more than the number of republicans that vote yea - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine Friday, June 26th at 7:08PM EDT (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson
Are Republican Congressmen eligible for unemployment insurance? nt
redneck_hippie Friday, June 26th at 7:09PM EDT (link)“We must not lose our faculty to dare, especially in dark days.” - Churchill in March, 1942.
Remember NY-23.
No, they'll just have to content themselves with their
janis Friday, June 26th at 7:20PM EDT (link)Golden Parachute Health and Pension Plans. Too bad we can’t rescind those benefits for anyone on either side of the aisle for being a traitorous, scum-sucking crap weasel who’d sell out the country just to keep their place on some committee.
My patience with these people is pretty gone for good.
we might have to have a revolution before there
kyle8 Friday, June 26th at 7:26PM EDT (link)can be any justice. But if we do have a revolution and everyone else gets squeamish. Just let me light up the traitors and class warriors.
I don’t have any conscious anyway so it wont bother me.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
kyle8, you have no conscience? And you're not a politician?
janis Friday, June 26th at 7:34PM EDT (link)Wasting a golden opportunity, you know. As to the revolution thing, I only have one question– is your aim true?
ok you got me
kyle8 Friday, June 26th at 7:55PM EDT (link)turns out that I guess I do have some sort of conscious, since I can’t imagine being a slimy politician.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
I Hope You Mean REPresentative and not REPublican n/t
Swamp_Yankee Friday, June 26th at 7:13PM EDT (link)nt
Not Dead Yet!
Reichert Mercer Island Washington was one of them
bobojake Friday, June 26th at 8:00PM EDT (link)We will be in his backyard barbacue explaining to the ecofreaks over there they can’t live on Microsoft forever. If this bill passes the
Senate Microsoft has said its moving its operation out of the United States. If course Nancy wants 60,000,000 on permetment unemployment as the bill specifies.
We will explain to Reidhert constituents what this vote meant to them.
Eastern Washington here
EIGHT REPUBLICANS voted for crap and trade. nt
Common_Cents Friday, June 26th at 7:16PM EDT (link)219-212 1 Dem 2 Rep not voting
“Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.” Napoleon - Well, unless he is ruining your country! Common Cents
A cult of personality arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships.
Eight who MUST be eliminated
kyle8 Friday, June 26th at 7:19PM EDT (link)Right now I am pledging some dollars to whoever wants to set up an ad hoc committee to work for their ouster.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
I'm in.
tadams1138 Friday, June 26th at 7:24PM EDT (link)Someone give me a mailing address.
“I’m not a malefactor, I’m a lagomorph”
One Frakking Vote - Is This For Real
Swamp_Yankee Friday, June 26th at 7:19PM EDT (link)w/ eight Republicans
Not Dead Yet!
only needed 4 of the 8 Reps for 216-215 defeat nt
Common_Cents Friday, June 26th at 7:24PM EDT (link)“Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.” Napoleon - Well, unless he is ruining your country! Common Cents
A cult of personality arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships.
or for the 8 to vote present
bk Friday, June 26th at 7:26PM EDT (link)Naming Names
Common_Cents Friday, June 26th at 7:32PM EDT (link)Reps voting for crap and trade:
Bono Mack
Reichert
Kirk
Castle
Lance
LoBiondo
Smith NJ
McHugh
“Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.” Napoleon - Well, unless he is ruining your country! Common Cents
A cult of personality arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships.
Anybody got states and districts? nt
Achance Friday, June 26th at 7:34PM EDT (link)In Vino Veritas
States and districts
George Claghorn Friday, June 26th at 7:39PM EDT (link)Chris Smith - NJ-04
Bono-Mack - CA-45
Mchugh - NY-23
Reichert - WA-08
LoBiondo - NJ-02
Lance - NJ-07
Kirk - IL-10
Castle - DE-at large
“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.
For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.
You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline
Louie Gohmert R-TX
Common_Cents Friday, June 26th at 7:36PM EDT (link)Just called it Crap and Trade bill on the floor and told the yes voters how they are going to hurt the poor.
Of course, this was after Sheila Jackson Lee took a couple minutes talking about Michael Jackson.
Priorities people!
“Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.” Napoleon - Well, unless he is ruining your country! Common Cents
A cult of personality arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships.
states and districts, as requested....
chuckie Friday, June 26th at 7:58PM EDT (link)Bono Mack Cal 45th
Reichert Wash 8th
Kirk Ill 10th
Castle Del At Large
Lance NJ 7th
LoBiondo NJ 2nd
Smith NJ 4th
McHugh NY 23rd
……….you’re welcome…..THEY are NOT……
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Britcom Friday, June 26th at 11:43PM EDT (link)Boehner’s Chart
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Waxman is a dweeb
jeepnpat1 Saturday, June 27th at 1:17AM EDT (link)I tried very hard to find this as all other news outlets were carrying the Jack-O story. In watching CSPAN, which I never thought I would end up watching instead of Fox News, I laughed at the dolt Waxman. After Boehner finished ’skimming’ the 300 page addition, Waxman asked if the Speaker would confirm how long his allotted time was. He said it was supposed to be a minute. Then the speaker (not Pelosi) stated that Boehner spoke in the proper amount of time allowed for the minority leader. The shouts and hurrahs for Boehner was great!
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