(2009-06-27) — Senate Republicans today introduced an “innovative alternative” to the 1,300-page cap-and-trade climate change bill which passed the House 219-212 virtually-unread Friday night as the nation sat transfixed by wall-to-wall coverage of the death of an iconic pop singer.
Supporters said the GOP-sponsored ‘Michael Jackson Energy Act’ will clear away a raft of environmental regulations that currently discourage construction of nuclear power plants, and will spark energy independence while reducing emissions of so-called greenhouse gases.
The 1,897-page Michael Jackson Energy bill includes more than a thousand pages of uninformed speculation about the cause of the performer’s death, gossip about the nature of his relationships with various adults and children, along with sweeping statements about his impact on the history of the world.
The bill includes a DVD tribute to Mr. Jackson, as well as dozens of before-and-after photos of his various bouts with cosmetic surgery. In addition, to a full-length foldout ‘Thriller’ poster, the bill contains several pages of language removing government-imposed barriers to the growth of a thriving private-sector nuclear energy industry.
“Although the substantive bipartisan opposition to the House cap-and-trade bill failed to capture the nation’s attention,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-KY, “we’ve learned from our mistakes, and know how to present our alternative legislation in a way that will matter to the mainstream media.”
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1 Dr. Dave // Jun 27, 2009 at 9:30 am
The funny-sad-whacked thing is the cretins in the House actually started standing one by one after voting on this piece of trash — with 8 Republican traitors helping it pass — and gave testimonies to Jacko, as if voting for the single largest tax increase in the history of the U.S. was nothing more than a commercial in between Farrah and Jacko’s deaths. Unfreakinreal.
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 27, 2009 at 10:24 am
It’s devolution—that’s what it is—of human civilization, that is.
I am grateful that Almighty God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Solid ground. Eternal.
~~~~~
I want a background check on all members of the House, and their staffs, and their families, and their pals.
3 R.A.M. // Jun 27, 2009 at 11:25 am
The Obama administration is as dangerous to the American taxpayer as “Jacko” was to little boys!
This bill should have been the one to die a few days ago!
I pray Jackson made his peace with GOD before he went but, like Elvis, there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. (This is where “blabber” would say, “What evidence?”, IF he was “working” today. Then I would have to explain ALL the things people like he chose to ignore like, sleeping in the same bed with other people’s children, saying how much he liked doing that, having a mini “Disneyland” on his property to attract children, and paying the first accuser millions to “go away”, etc.)
As for this bill, anyone, I repeat, ANYONE who cannot see this is just a tax on the backs of EVERYONE in America, is too stupid to deserve a responce when they show their ignorance and try to defend it, (as I KNOW at least a few of the Obama loving trolls will)!
4 R.A.M. // Jun 27, 2009 at 11:29 am
Dr. Dave: I also saw were Je$$e Jack$on Junior said how “blessed” we all were to have lived in “Jacko’s” time!
Sure sounds like he was equating this pervert to Jesus Christ!
BTW, what happened to that investigation on “Junior” for possibly trying to BUY Obama’s Senate seat???
5 RedPepper // Jun 27, 2009 at 11:53 am
I guess actually reading proposed legislation is too much to expect in the Age of Obama.
These bills need to be choreographed and made into videos!
If only they weren’t so long …
6 R.A.M. // Jun 27, 2009 at 12:26 pm
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/26/the-8-cap-and-tax-republicans/
Malkin has the 8 RepubMorons listed. Among them are Mary Bono who was “bequeathed” her seat by Sonny, (Maybe she hit her head too?), and the RepubMoron that thinks he can win a Senate seat in Illinois after this vote.
Patrick Kennedy was pulled out of rehab to vote.
Maybe he and Obama did a few lines of “blow” before the vote?
wv: 11 rewired NO, it was 8 that were “rewired”
7 R.A.M. // Jun 27, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Red Pepper: Perhaps they can’t read?
It is possible. Most of them have never done a decent days work in their entire life, so it IS possible.
I bet MOST do not even cut their own grass. They have illegal aliens do that for them.
8 R.A.M. // Jun 27, 2009 at 12:32 pm
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102271
I had to post this even though within MINUTES of the story being posted, the “item in question” magically disappeared from the ebay site.
Wonder “who” caused that to happen?
9 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 27, 2009 at 12:52 pm
It’s a travesty and a sham. Someone referred to this affront as a “millstone” yesterday.
The economy is free-falling into a sheer, bottomless ravine—via the premeditated shove of the Manchurian [wolf in sheep's clothing] (the luau-meister)—on its way to the very core of this planet.
Matthew 6:25-34
10 Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » The axis of misunderstood thugs, the cap and tax 8, and the roundup // Jun 27, 2009 at 12:57 pm
[...] Speaking of thugs, Mystery Surrounds Alleged Hezbollah Links to Drug Arrests in Curacao ————————————- Michael Yon asks a question on The road to hell, part II ————————————- Scrappleface merges two headlines into one story: GOP Offers ‘Michael Jackson’ Cap & Trade Alternative. [...]
11 onlineanalyst // Jun 27, 2009 at 2:09 pm
FYI alert: The citizens are upset enough about the CapNTr8ors who allowed the passage of a destructive bill based on faux science and not even read, much less understood in its ramifications.
More events are being planned to raise our voices in protest. Check out where gatherings are taking place in your area.
Call, email, and fax your senators in order to defeat this taxation without representation.
12 camojack // Jun 27, 2009 at 2:34 pm
On a certain level, I felt sorry for Michael Jackson; with all his wealth and fame, he was still an obviously unhappy person…based upon his behavior. It just goes to show that money can’t buy happiness. Probably growing up (such as he did) amidst all the demands of his show business career messed him up, as it has done to so many other child stars.
As for him being a child molester, it says in the Bible that “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
(Matthew 18:6 - KJV)
Not having actually witnessed the alleged events, I’m not saying whether he was or wasn’t a child molester, but the evidence that he was seemed pretty damning…
13 Laughing@You // Jun 27, 2009 at 3:31 pm
“I want a background check on all members of the House, and their staffs, and their families, and their pals.”
Yes dimwit, and I would like a pony!
Everthink?
14 Laughing@You // Jun 27, 2009 at 3:39 pm
“with 8 Republican traitors helping it pass “,
Who needs’ them? Listen, if yer congressmen want to they can just stay home, and save their carbon tax money. The way their all acting, they are just annoying the busy Democrats with all that hooting and hollering any way.
Everthink?
15 samuel // Jun 27, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I have read through the bill several times and can’t seem to find the ‘Thriller’ foldout. Very frustrating. I see there are two versions of the Bill. Maybe I am looking at the wrong one, the version I read only has 1,092 pages. I’ll check the other one. What is the difference between (Introduced in House) and (Reported in House)? Confusing.
16 MJFinSC // Jun 27, 2009 at 4:57 pm
There were 44 D’s with brains, or at least they were afraid of their constituents, and 8 R traitors. I don’t blame the traitors, I do blame the House leadership for not being able to control these people. This is obvious bad legislation, or should be, to anyone claiming to be a Republican (unless, of course, you’re from Maine). Instead of reading the damn bill, Boehner should have gone around smacking these 8 clowns.
17 R.A.M. // Jun 27, 2009 at 7:19 pm
re #13: I hope you get your pony, I have never seen a jack@$$ riding a pony before.
re#14: You say, “Who needs them”? Again, you are NOT too smart moron. Without the 8 Repubocrats the sham bill would NOT have passed.
Pretty ironic hearing Obammy said that the Repubs against the bill were not telling the truth about it.
This coming from the “Lyin’ King”!
18 Libby Gone // Jun 27, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Sad STATE of affairs…………
Have a candlelight vigil for your wallet. Anyone for this tripe is an IDIOT.
19 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 27, 2009 at 8:50 pm
The enemy planted its moles deep.
We now have the grown-up version of the SDS running the show.
20 onlineanalyst // Jun 27, 2009 at 9:25 pm
The Dems were heard cheering, following the passage of the biggest stealth tax hike on America on Friday. It’s a sad day when our own countryment threaten our nation with taxation and regulation that the House has not even read, much less vetted. The cost in rising prices for goods, food, transportation, and heating and lost jobs/homes will sink us further into a Depression.
It’s not much of an eyeopener to learn which congresscritters are heavily invested in “green technologies” and carbon-credit business scams. How different is this self-serving legislation from insider trading.
The Obamabots cannot be happy with another of the Deceitful One’s latest Friday night news dumps, however. Obamao continues to delude his blind sheep with more “rank hypocrisy.” George W. Obama, indeed! And for all of the blathering that the Apprentice did on the campaign trail about President Bush, how many of W’s national security programs has he continued?
21 onlineanalyst // Jun 27, 2009 at 9:49 pm
More on the double-talk of Obamao: http://reason.com/news/show/132541.html
22 MajorDomo // Jun 27, 2009 at 11:34 pm
They say that stupidity is not only the most dangerous thing, it is also the most difficult thing to eradicate. I believe it. The only way to get rid of it in the Congress is to have a complete turnover of residents, beginning with the upcoming congressional election!
23 Laughing@You // Jun 28, 2009 at 12:22 am
“Who needs them”? Again, you are NOT too smart moron. Without the 8 Repubocrats the sham bill would NOT have passed.”
I doubt this true, without those eight, the Democrats would have been forced to see the light, and vote in lockstep like Bush Republicans.
Everthink?
24 Laughing@You // Jun 28, 2009 at 12:27 am
If you poor folks here aren’t whining about about one thing, it well be another. Major, what you’re asking is extremely unlikely, better be concerned with holding the seats you now have.
Everthink?
25 R.A.M. // Jun 28, 2009 at 12:38 am
http://www.voe.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=152&Itemid=91
This link is to Perry Stone’s most recent program MannaFest. Perry is hands down the best Preacher of where we are in Bible Prophecy today.
After a few weeks of special “alert” programs, he is back teaching from Israel. I Tivo the episodes because I hate when the program is over and by having more than one episode, I can watch another.
He may not be the first to equate Jesus’ return to “birth pains” of a woman giving birth, but it really is a good analogy because there have always been “wars and rumors of wars”, as “earthquakes in diverse places”, but as he says, when these things happen more often and closer together, as with a woman having labor, HE is about to RETURN!!!! Praise GOD!!!
The episode is about 22 minutes. I would say one of his best but, ALL his teachings are EXCELLENT!
26 onlineanalyst // Jun 28, 2009 at 7:25 am
More telling about Friday’s Cap and Trade vote is that 44 Democrats voted “No” for its passage. Pelosi knew ahead of time that she had the numbers to take the bill to the floor, so that some of the Blue Dogs who voted against the bill were “covered” in “proving” their conservative credentials in their home districts.
She would have cracked the whip of withholding campaign moneys for them if the vote had been jeopardized.
I have the sense that a number of Representatives are going to get an earful when they return to their home districts over the recess. People are waking up to the fact that this bill will negatively affect their pocketbook and their jobs is a deep and lasting way.
27 onlineanalyst // Jun 28, 2009 at 7:37 am
NRO’s Andres Stuttaford offers this observation and links to a longer piece that calls into question the validity of the Waxman-Markey bill:
” EU Referendum’s Richard North:
This passage of this bill does not signify any great “green revolution” or “growing” climate “awareness” on the part of Congress. Instead, the methods and manner that the Pelosi-led House achieved final passage, represents nothing more than unrestrained exercise of raw political power, arm-twisting, intimidation and special interest handouts.
The House of Representatives passed a bill it did not read, did not understand. A bill that is based on crumbling scientific claims and a bill that will have no detectable climate impact (assuming climate fear promoters are correct on the science and the bill is fully implemented – both implausible assumptions).
Proponents of the bill made spectacular claims in their efforts to impress the urgency of the bill on their colleagues. Democratic Congressman G.K. Butterfield reported claim that the bill “will literally save the planet” reveals just how out of touch scientifically, politically and economically many of the bill’s supporters have become.
“Think what you will about the Waxman-Markey bill (I’m not a fan, to put it mildly), but the way it has been pushed through (the whole ‘unread’ thing, to start with) reflects extraordinarily poorly on the American political system. Are the techniques that were used unprecedented? Of course not, but the fact that they apparently bother Obama so little ought to worry just a few of those who believed that his election would usher in an era of more open government and a more democratic political process.”
28 MJFinSC // Jun 28, 2009 at 11:58 am
One thing for certain is that if only 4 R’s voted for this abomination, then there would have been only 40 D’s who would have been against. The “Wicked Witch of Northern California” would have been slapping some of them silly to make sure they got that thing passed.
29 samuel // Jun 28, 2009 at 12:19 pm
I wonder what percentage of legislation complainers (myself included) who claim to be so ‘non-moronic’ actually read more than one non-title/ non-index page of the legislation we complain about? Since HR-2454 was introduced on Cinco De Mayo 2009 so we (the Boss) had 50+ days to rally before it came to a vote and 6 days since it came out of all committees. Just wondering: How many pages have you read since it passed the house? Zero? Two? That is my guess.
30 onlineanalyst // Jun 28, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Samuel: I am not sure what point that you are trying to make, but we do live in a representative republic, where our elected leaders and their staffs are expected to read and study the legislation that they craft.
When a 3:00 am amendment drop is made by Rep. Waxman and no copies are available for inclusion in the bill that is to be voted on, Rep. Boehner is correct to take the time to read it to the House members in order to demonstrate its absurdity. The original bill itself is unwieldy enough.
I have seen bits and pieces of the bill and read about its negative economic impact in studies by assorted think tanks that are more knowledgeable than I. I trust their expertise, for like most Americans I spend my day earning my daily bread and paying my bills and taxes. I am not a professional politician.
FYI Here is a source with a variety of links that explores the ramifications of the Cap and Trade bill.
Also, be aware that Congress was working with deeply flawed information that was dependent on out-of-date and refuted data provided by the EPA, an agency which repressed those findings. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant; it promotes plant life, the basic stuff of food production.
One of the provisions of the bill that should raise hackles regards the building, buying and selling, and home improvement areas of the housing industry. Costly “green” and arbitrary impositions are placed on owners, buyers, and sellers before a transaction can take place. For example, a home seller will have to install new, energy efficient windows or furnace before a home can be placed on the market.
The bill actually destroys industries that would make our nation energy independent because it penalizes drilling and refining oil, mining shale, drilling for natural gas, and building of nuclear facilities. All of these resources are plentiful in our nation, and we have the best record worldwide in clean production of them.
With the royalties in leases for this production, our country could use the funds to explore alternative energy sources and fund our federal programs handsomely.
The “geographic footprint” of windmills and solar panels is huge and inefficient. The NIMBY crowd would be screaming over their ugliness.
The Cap and Trade bill will put us into another “dark” age of rolling blackouts. We will have insufficient heating as we move into a cooling period, which is just a natural phenomena anyway, not one caused by human activity.
One has the sense that the “jobs” being “created” in this boondoggle will only be government jobs, clerical and bureaucratic jobs that involve intrusive inspections, record-keeping, assessment of fines, etc.
31 SGT USMC 1ea // Jun 28, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Michael and Farrah in one night. The 70’s- 80’s and my childhood are officially over. I have glanced at the title and/or a few hundred pages of this legislation and have come to the conclusion that it is a punishment act, designed to curtail our energy (read comfort) usage and level us out with the rest of the world in a communistic fashion.
Deus est Semper Fidelis
32 Newsman // Jun 28, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Gee RAM, did you know that the bible is a big scam. It was only written 237 years ago !
That’s as valid a statement as your assertions/implications above about the EBay bit.
BTW, is it true, as the rumor goes on the net, that you come from the lower end of the gene pool ?
33 R.A.M. // Jun 28, 2009 at 9:02 pm
You can sell anything on ebay, except a document proving the “usurper” posing as the U.S. President is NOT eligible to be POTUS!
Three times the person auctioning the item has had it taken down, and with THREE SEPARATE reasons why.
ebay allows even soft porn under the “everything else” listing. They, (as I said), allow almost anything to be auctioned off. I bet you could even find and bid on “proof” that newsboy once was a comedy writer for “Saved By The Bell”.
Off topic but, I thought of a defense for Gov Mark Sanford. He should use the “gay excuse” for his infidelity and say,
“God made me this way! I really wish I had a “choice” but I don’t. God made me want more than one woman. I realized this after my visit to an Internet blog called “Scrappleface”. It was there that I read a post from a “boberinyetagain” who defending gays said, what would make a person “choose” to be gay with the negative things consequences of being that way.
I thought about how my family, my wife and 4 boys are being hurt and then realized, he is right, NO ONE would “choose” to be an adulterer, so it MUST be that God made me this way!
My eternal thanks to boberinyetagain for his valuable help putting the blame where it belongs. With God and NOT me!”
34 R.A.M. // Jun 28, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Sorry, forgot to post the link:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102370
You should check out ebay newsboy, you might find a brain there, or if not maybe some integrety.
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