Comments on: Cap & Trade Phone Calls. Here are your marching orders

By: Next93

Next93 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:54:22 +0000

“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.’

By: AyeChihuahua

AyeChihuahua — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:25:36 +0000

is a “NO” for today’s vote.

Thank goodness.

By: Jack_Savage

Jack_Savage — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:52:41 +0000

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.

By: briancobbs

briancobbs — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:11:10 +0000

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.

By: Jack_Savage

Jack_Savage — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:56:23 +0000

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

By: Jack_Savage

Jack_Savage — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:55:17 +0000

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

By: briancobbs

briancobbs — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:53:01 +0000

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.

By: lmiller25

lmiller25 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:48:12 +0000

Which office did you call, Brian?

By: briancobbs

briancobbs — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:42:44 +0000

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.

By: djemi

djemi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:32:46 +0000

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.

By: TxCon

TxCon — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:23:45 +0000

lose to this clown?

By: briancobbs

briancobbs — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:17:57 +0000

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).