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Cap & Trade Phone Calls. Here are your marching orders

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 26th, 2009 at 10:10 AM  | 

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Here is the list of swing Democrats on Cap and Trade.

Here is the list of swing Republicans on the issue.

If you don’t see your Congressman on the list, go
here, put in your zip-code, and find your Congressman.

You need to call right now. Tell your Congressman to vote no on the Cap & Trade legislation, H.R. 2454. It is coming to a vote today.

Brian notes in the comments that the legislation requires us to “unilaterally reduce our emissions without being contingent on China or India reducing theirs.”

It is also a giant tax increase on working families. Energy costs are going to soar.

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  • briancobbs

    His office STILL wouldn’t say which way he was voting on it, so I called them on it, and said that he’s just waiting to see if there are enough votes so he can oppose the bill for political purposes.

    Keep the pressure up!

    Erick – you might want to note a good talking point against the bill, is that it unilaterally reduces our emissions without being contingent on China or India reducing theirs. We need to use this bill as a bargaining chip to make sure that other countries reduce their emissions too – if we just pass this on our own, they’ll have less of an incentive.

    (Of course, I don’t really hope other countries hurt their own economies like we are doing, but it’s a good talking point so you can sort of attack this from the left as well).

  • TxCon

    lose to this clown?

  • djemi

    I called his office this morning about that 300 page add on and they said he was still undecided. You reach him at 202 225 6276. Think I’ll give him another call now see if he has decided yet or not.

  • briancobbs

    His office actually tried to convince me that he was still undecided on the issue. Unbelievable.

    Even if he votes against it, I’m writing a letter to the Daily Progress explaining that he was still undecided as of Friday Morning because he wanted to make sure the bill would pass anyway so he could oppose it for political reasons.

    What a coward.

  • lmiller25

    Which office did you call, Brian?

  • briancobbs

    Called the district office first, they suggested I call the DC office.

    (202) 225-4711

    Call them. He’s a scared first- term rep who wants to keep his seat.

    The guy answering the phone was a bright guy, but don’t let him pull the CBO “it will only cost 100 dollars per family per year” BS on you.

    Three responses to that:

    1. That analysis is absurd on its face, because if it hardly had any cost, it wouldn’t alter anyone’s behavior and would have no effect on consumption/emissinos.

    2. Obama himself said that it will “skyrocket the price of electricity”

    3. The CBO study didn’t take into account GDP loss, and also stopped counting costs after 2020, when most of the restrictions kick in.

  • Jack_Savage

    Hopefully Virgil Goode will strip the bark off the little bastard in 2010.

  • Jack_Savage

    Once a great town, now a haven for granola eating communists.

  • briancobbs

    I’m only there for a few years. There certainly are plenty of granola-eaters though. You should have seen the area around election day.

    Perriello’s not a bad guy, as far as Congressmen go. He has an impressive background and is very down to earth. But he ran as a moderate democrat, and votes like this put him WAY to the left of the district.

  • Jack_Savage

    While my wife was doing an internship at UVA.
    Bodos, Wine Warehouse and Hotcakes were great, and anything at The Corner is cool. I do the tour of the Rotunda and Lawn about once a year too, and have been to Monticello numerous times. Route 20 is a favorite drive up to Orange, and James and Dolley Madison’s graves, in a field with a simple iron fence, fascinate me.

    I miss it and hate it all at the same time. A very,very blue area in the last election, as was Nelson County.

  • AyeChihuahua

    is a “NO” for today’s vote.

    Thank goodness.

  • Next93

    “Please inform the congressman that those of us who loose our jobs because he voted for this bill will be working very VERY hard to make sure that HE will loose his job because he voted for this bill. And those of us who can’t afford to heat our homes next winter because of this bill will be making every effort to make sure that HE won’t be able to afford to heat his home next winter because of this bill.

    Thanks for your time.’