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The Yes Votes on Waxman-Markey

When you've lost your job.

When you can't pay your energy bill.

When you've lost your job and you can't pay your energy bills.

When that happens, here is the link listing the US Representatives who voted yes on the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill.

Won't be seeing these folks in 2010.
Abercrombie (D, HI)
Ackerman (D, NY)
Adler (D, NJ)
Andrews (D, NJ)
Baca (D, CA)
Baird (D, WA)
Baldwin (D, WI)
Bean (D, IL)
Becerra (D, CA)
Berkley (D, NV)
Berman (D, CA)
Bishop (D, GA)
Bishop (D, NY)
Blumenauer (D, OR)
Boccieri (D, OH)
Bono Mack (R, CA-45)
Boswell (D, IA)
Boucher (D, VA)
Boyd (D, FL)
Brady (D, PA)
Braley (D, IA)
Brown (D, FL)
Butterfield (D, NC)
Capps (D, CA)
Capuano (D, MA)
Cardoza (D, CA)
Carnahan (D, MO)
Carson (D, IN)
Castle (R, DE-00)
Castor (D, FL)
Chandler (D, KY)
Clarke (D, NY)
Clay (D, MO)
Cleaver (D, MO)
Clyburn (D, SC)
Cohen (D, TN)
Connolly (D, VA)
Conyers (D, MI)
Cooper (D, TN)
Courtney (D, CT)
Crowley (D, NY)
Cuellar (D, TX)
Cummings (D, MD)
Davis (D, CA)
Davis (D, IL)
DeGette (D, CO)
Delahunt (D, MA)
DeLauro (D, CT)
Dicks (D, WA)
Dingell (D, MI)
Doggett (D, TX)
Doyle (D, PA)
Driehaus (D, OH)
Edwards (D, MD)
Ellison (D, MN)
Engel (D, NY)
Eshoo (D, CA)
Etheridge (D, NC)
Farr (D, CA)
Fattah (D, PA)
Filner (D, CA)
Frank (D, MA)
Fudge (D, OH)
Giffords (D, AZ)
Gonzalez (D, TX)
Gordon (D, TN)
Grayson (D, FL)
Green (D, TX)
Green (D, TX)
Grijalva (D, AZ)
Gutierrez (D, IL)
Hall (D, NY)
Halvorson (D, IL)
Hare (D, IL)
Harman (D, CA)
Heinrich (D, NM)
Higgins (D, NY)
Hill (D, IN)
Himes (D, CT)
Hinchey (D, NY)
Hinojosa (D, TX)
Hirono (D, HI)
Hodes (D, NH)
Holt (D, NJ)
Honda (D, CA)
Hoyer (D, MD)
Inslee (D, WA)
Israel (D, NY)
Jackson (D, IL)
Jackson-Lee (D, TX)
Johnson (D, GA)
Johnson (D, TX)
Kagen (D, WI)
Kanjorski (D, PA)
Kaptur (D, OH)
Kennedy (D, RI)
Kildee (D, MI)
Kilpatrick (D, MI)
Kilroy (D, OH)
Kind (D, WI)
Kirk (R, IL-10)
Klein (D, FL)
Kosmas (D, FL)
Kratovil (D, MD)
Lance (R, NJ-07)
Langevin (D, RI)
Larsen (D, WA)
Larson (D, CT)
Lee (D, CA)
Levin (D, MI)
Lewis (D, GA)
Lipinski (D, IL)
LoBiondo (R, NJ-02)
Loebsack (D, IA)
Lofgren (D, CA)
Lowey (D, NY)
Luján (D, NM)
Lynch (D, MA)
Maffei (D, NY)
Maloney (D, NY)
Markey (D, CO)
Markey (D, MA)
Matsui (D, CA)
McCarthy (D, NY)
McCollum (D, MN)
McDermott (D, WA)
McGovern (D, MA)
McHugh (R, NY-23)
McMahon (D, NY)
McNerney (D, CA)
Meek (D, FL)
Meeks (D, NY)
Michaud (D, ME)
Miller (D, NC)
Miller (D, CA)
Moore (D, KS)
Moore (D, WI)
Moran (D, VA)
Murphy (D, CT)
Murphy (D, NY)
Murphy (D, PA)
Murtha (D, PA)
Nadler (D, NY)
Napolitano (D, CA)
Neal (D, MA)
Oberstar (D, MN)
Obey (D, WI)
Olver (D, MA)
Pallone (D, NJ)
Pascrell (D, NJ)
Pastor (D, AZ)
Payne (D, NJ)
Pelosi (D, CA)
Perlmutter (D, CO)
Perriello (D, VA)
Peters (D, MI)
Peterson (D, MN)
Pingree (D, ME)
Polis (D, CO)
Price (D, NC)
Quigley (D, IL)
Rangel (D, NY)
Reichert (R, WA-08)
Reyes (D, TX)
Richardson (D, CA)
Rothman (D, NJ)
Roybal-Allard (D, CA)
Ruppersberger (D, MD)
Rush (D, IL)
Ryan (D, OH)
Sanchez (D, CA)
Sánchez (D, CA)
Sarbanes (D, MD)
Schakowsky (D, IL)
Schauer (D, MI)
Schiff (D, CA)
Schrader (D, OR)
Schwartz (D, PA)
Scott (D, GA)
Scott (D, VA)
Serrano (D, NY)
Sestak (D, PA)
Shea-Porter (D, NH)
Sherman (D, CA)
Shuler (D, NC)
Sires (D, NJ)
Skelton (D, MO)
Slaughter (D, NY)
Smith (R, NJ-04)
Smith (D, WA)
Snyder (D, AR)
Space (D, OH)
Speier (D, CA)
Spratt (D, SC)
Stupak (D, MI)
Sutton (D, OH)
Tauscher (D, CA)
Teague (D, NM)
Thompson (D, CA)
Thompson (D, MS)
Tierney (D, MA)
Titus (D, NV)
Tonko (D, NY)
Towns (D, NY)
Tsongas (D, MA)
Van (D, MD)
Velázquez (D, NY)
Walz (D, MN)
Wasserman (D, FL)
Waters (D, CA)
Watson (D, CA)
Watt (D, NC)
Waxman (D, CA)
Weiner (D, NY)
Welch (D, VT)
Wexler (D, FL)
Woolsey (D, CA)
Wu (D, OR)
Yarmuth (D, KY)

Kill That BILL

Some more reasons why the Waxman-Markey bill is a steaming pile of crap.

It could lead to energy rationing.

Here are 15 reasons to kill this bill from The Club For Growth.

Even GREENPEACE hates this thing.

And the democrat jackasses haven't even read the damn thing. No one has. Go here to Readthebill.org to learn about how good people are fighting to get our lawmakers to ACTUALLY READ the laws they are voting for.

Gov. Healthcare - Death and Taxes

Link here with more information.

Jonah Takes The Press To Task

I love Jonah. This posting here is hilarious. It's funny because its true.

Little sample below.

As Kool Aid–allergic columnist Robert Samuelson has noted, such sycophancy is a serious public-policy problem because the president is proposing a radical overhaul of pretty much everything, and for the most part the press hasn’t cared that his explanations are iffier than gas-station sushi and his assurances are more dubious than a North Korean press release. Obama’s ongoing promise that he’s “creating or saving” jobs is as plausible as the chess-team captain’s claim that his supermodel girlfriend can’t fly down from Canada for the prom.

The Stoning of Soraya M

I want to see this movie (although I am scared of it too). Here is a moving webpost about it.

I saw the movie The Stoning of Soraya M., at a private showing in Washington, D.C. and, although I have seen many pictures of the stoning of the women and young girls by the Iranian Islamic regime, I could not believed that the human race is capable of such cruelty. Apparently our words and cries are not strong enough to raise human-rights awareness, but this movie can help our cause. After all, one picture is worth a thousand words.

SNIP

It is a fact that the feminist American culture, the culture of Hollywood, is one of the major issues that Islamists like Khomeini, Bin Laden, Hezbollah, the Muslim brotherhood, and the Taliban have against America and the West. But this culture supports the Islamists by its silence and indifference to the issue of human rights. The Stoning of Soraya M. should have received many academy awards, many Cannes awards, and many movie reviews. It is the least this culture can do for the Iranian women suffering to gain the same human rights that American feminists exploit.

The Sentence

Go here and read an excellent op-ed from The Wall Street Journal.

Just go. I'll wait here while you read.

Obama Stifled Science

The free market-based Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington has obtained a set of internal e-mails exposing Team Obama's willful and reckless disregard for data that undermine the illusion of "consensus."

In March, Alan Carlin, a senior research analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency, asked agency officials to distribute his analysis on the health effects of greenhouse gases. EPA has proposed a public health "endangerment finding" covering CO2 and five other gases that would trigger costly, extensive new regulations of motor vehicles. The open comment period on the ruling ended this week. But Carlin's study didn't fit the blame-human-activity narrative, so it didn't make the cut.

The above was in this article in The New York Post about how Obama promised in his election campaign to make environmental decisions "based on the science."

He lied. And he will continue to lie because no one calls him out on these things. Thank you New York Post for having the journalistic spine to run that op-ed.

Another Reason to Kill that Bill

From The Wall Street Journal, this op-ed explains how global warming/climate change is probably NOT man-made.

The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

Open Government

(Originally posted by my husband on NRO-The Corner)

The stink surrounding the Pelosi-Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill has become vomit-inducing overnight. Representative Waxman has decided to replace the 1091-page bill with a 300-page bill that will be debated for no longer than three hours today. So your elected representatives will have virtually no time to debate the merits of an economy-spanning bill they will not have had time to read. Speaker Pelosi and her sidekick Waxman are displaying nothing more than complete contempt for the democratic process.

If you're as utterly disgusted by this as I am, you can send a message to Pelosi and her cronies by telling your Congressmen to vote against this bill. You can e-mail them, call them (202-225-3121), or text the National Taxpayers Union on 54608 and they will help.

And would anyone like to help push the Constitutional Amendment I suggested around the time of the stimulus?

UPDATE: The e-mail link is now correct.

Open Government, Part II

(Originially posted on NRO-The Corner by my husband)

This week, CEI released evidence to the public, by means of a filing of comments with the Environmental Protection Agency, that the EPA was suppressing science skeptical of the harmful effects of global warming. By taking this action, Obama's EPA demonstrated its hypocrisy when it comes to the role of science in its decision-making. Shortly before assuming office, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson declared: “As Administrator, I will ensure EPA’s efforts to address the environmental crises of today are rooted in three fundamental values: science-based policies and programs, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency.” Jan. 23, 2009. This followed the president’s own January 21 memo to agency heads on “Transparency and Open Government.” And in an April 27 speech to the National Academy of Sciences, the president declared that, “under my administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over.”

What is particularly interesting is the way the EPA has tried to brush this under the carpet. Rather than take my word for it, as an interested party, best to follow the work of the San Francisco Examiner's Thomas Fuller. He reported the story, then, faced with a dismissive response from EPA, decided that there was no story there. However, as you'll see from the link, further investigation proved that there was indeed a real story, and two further updates confirm this. Despite the administrator's and president's declarations, political considerations are clearly dominating scientific discussion at EPA. Now, this is in many ways to be expected as part of the political process, but not when the EPA head and her boss have told the public otherwise.

What is also interesting is that so far, it seems that the traditional media read our evidence and the EPA's denial and stopped there, without further digging. Thomas Fuller, however, did go further, turned over the stone, and found the worms wriggling there.

CEI released the actual suppressed study last night, which it did not obtain from the scientist concerned. You can read more at Watts Up With That.

So add this to the attempted railroading through of the cap-and-tax bill and you can be left with only one conclusion. Democrats currently in government aren't just incompetent, they are contemptuous of the American people.

Open Government III

(Originally posted by my husband on NRO-Corner)

Well, I suppose this form of vote buying on the House floor is at least transparent:

Kill This Bill

The Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill is another bums rush job by the democrats.

The democrats must push this bill through so fast that no one can read all 1600 pages because it is a BAD DEAL.

They must horse-trade favors on the floor of the House of Representatives because it is a BAD DEAL.

They have to "embroider" the truth because it is a BAD DEAL.

A vote yes for Waxman-Markey is a vote against the American people.

A vote yes for Waxman-Markey is a vote against the American economy.

A vote yes for Waxman-Markey is a vote against the American industry.

The democrats in their headalong rush to cram cap and trade down our throats haven't even stopped to look at the history of cap and trade in Europe (utter failure).

The democrats in their headalong rush to cram cap and trade down our throats haven't even stopped to think about how VOTERS will react when their energy bills sky rocket.

The democrats in their headalong rush to cram cap and trade down our throats haven't even stopped to think about how VOTERS could freeze to death if they can't afford to pay their energy bills because their industry collapsed thanks to cap and trade legislation like Waxman-Markey

I could go on like this forever. I'm a stay-at-home mom with time, internet access, and a grudge.

Congress - Kill this bill or you will kill Americans or even more likely, you will kill your career as a US politician.

Look Over There!

(Orginally posted at NRO-The Corner by my husband)

As a great man just noted to me, now the president has thrown immigration reform into the media mix, along with Sanford, Farrah, health care and, ahem, D.C. church rebuilding . . . Anything to distract people from the biggest tax rise in U.S. history that is going to be voted on tomorrow or Saturday. Several House waverers have now said they'll vote no. If we can keep the pressure up, we can beat this thing. But that takes focus!

Aid to Africa Kills Part 4 of 5`

Here is the link to the five part series about Africa with Dambisa Moyo from Uncommon Knowledge.

Thinking about this guy

I've been thinking about this essay since I first read it in 2006. Now the author has written a book "Shop Class as Soulcraft" on the subject.

The essay has stuck with me for years, I'm looking forward to reading the book. Below is his "interview" with Colbert. But its weird I'd been thinking about that essay and suddenly...

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Scary Toys

Cracked.com had me laughing so hard my eyes watered will reading this post about "The 13 Most Unintentionally Disturbing Children's Toys".

The Six Finger Gun advert is astonishing with its obvious pride in the weapon aspect of this toy but I think my favorite is Big Loo - if only it would scare my five-year-old into obeidance.

Will Congress Switch Off Your Lights?

Read this Washington Times article by my husband about how the Waxman-Markey bill will raise your home energy bill by $1,500.

Under Waxman-Markey, the economic pain would be severe, indeed. President Obama's own aides have admitted that it could cost hardworking Americans up to $2 trillion. The burden, moreover, would fall disproportionately on the poor, who spend a greater proportion of their income on energy - 26 percent compared to a median-income family that spends 4 percent of its earnings on energy. It would also affect the South and Midwest much more than the West Coast and Northeast. In fact, the effect would be a wealth transfer from the South and Midwest to the West Coast and Northeast. Overall, the bill would cost the average American family $1,500 in increased energy costs.

Those increased energy costs would hit businesses hard, resulting in an average loss of 1.1 million jobs a year. And that is after counting the effect of so-called "green jobs," which would largely be temporary and, according to a recent study, pretty low-paying - most green jobs that have been created to date pay below the average wage.

Even Obama Doesn't Want Obamacare

According to GCI.net, Obama was asked by a doctor on last night's government-owned TV station "to promise that his wife and daughters would only get the services allowed under a new government insurance plan he's proposing."

Obama merely answered "If it was his wife, daughters or grandmother, the president said, he'd "always want them to get the very best care."

Nice. Another liberal example of do what I say but not what I do. Obama wants to use government-run healthcare as a way to cram socialism down our throats but he wouldn't use the same government-run healthcare that we would be required to.

I love hypocrisy in the morning. Get's my blood-pressure right up there.

I can't wait to see what the ratings were for this informercial.

Oh and as Fox News pointed out and you can find the quote here at the bottom of page two at this ABC-published transcript, Obama also described exactly what we've been saying all along, government-run healthcare is rationed healthcare.

I don't want bureaucracies making those decisions, but understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they're not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private insurers.

We don't always make those decisions explicitly. We often make those decisions by just letting people run out of money or making the deductibles so high or the out-of-pocket expenses so onerous that they just can't afford the care.

And all we're suggesting -- and we're not going to solve every difficult problem in terms of end-of-life care. A lot of that is going to have to be, we as a culture and as a society starting to make better decisions within our own families and for ourselves.

But what we can do is make sure that at least some of the waste that exists in the system that's not making anybody's mom better, that is loading up on additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care, that at least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what? Maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller. (italics mine)

And those kinds of decisions between doctors and patients, and making sure that our incentives are not preventing those good decision, and that -- that doctors and hospitals all are aligned for patient care, that's something we can achieve

. The key to understanding Obama is not to let his surface talk lull you into complacency. He's repeating patient-doctor relationship but there are key words he also uses like "evidence" which is a reference to rationing, etc.

The part I put in italics is the most chilling. He is basically saying why fix the problem with expensive surgery when you can just suffer the symptoms with painkillers. That is rationing, friends. And if you don't fight it, you deserve to suffer under it as well.

Tobacco Tax's First Victim

The Hav-A-Tampa cigar factory opened in 1902 but Obama's latest tobacco tax has shut it down, laying off nearly 500 Florida workers.

However, the company attributed much of its trouble to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, a federal program that provides health insurance to low-income children. It is funded, in part, by a new federal tax on cigars and cigarettes. McKenzie couldn't say how much sales of Hav-A-Tampa cigars had fallen off, but the numbers have dropped significantly, he said.

Previously, federal excise taxes on cigars were limited to no more than a nickel, said Norman Sharp, president of the Cigar Association of America trade group. The tax increase, which took effect April 1, raises the maximum tax on cigars to about 40 cents, Sharp said.

Before the tax increase was passed, the cigar industry warned that consumption of cigars could fall as much as 30 percent in the year after its passage. It's not clear yet how big of an impact the law is having on sales, Sharp said.

Harrison said she understands the company's predicament and that Altadis has tried to treat its employees fairly, including guaranteeing employees two months of pay. Like her employer, she put part of the blame on the SCHIP tax hike

. This is exactly what Big Tobacco wants, elimination of the smaller competition.

Planted Questions

How insecure is Obama that he feels the need to openly plant reporters with pre-arranged questions in his press conferences?

If Bush had done that, the media would crucify him. With Obama, the media is too busy crucifying their own integrety (and livelihood) to notice.

The Washinton Post's Dana Milbank is following this.

Pitney said the White House, though not aware of the question's wording, asked him to come up with a question about Iran proposed by an Iranian. And, as it turned out, he was not the only prearranged questioner at yesterday's show. Later, Obama passed over the usual suspects to call on Macarena Vidal of the Spanish-language EFE news agency. The White House called Vidal in advance to see whether she was coming and arranged for her to sit in a seat usually assigned to a financial trade publication. She asked about Chile and Colombia.

Pathetic.

Accuracy In Media website also has an amusing post up about the media's fawning over Obama here titled ‘Gerbilists’ In The National Press Corps.

I've decided "gerbilism" is a pretty good word for what's been going on in the news media these days. Gerbilism is an apt term for something that's soft and warm and cuddly, safe and timid, with no sharp teeth and no bite whatsoever. Gerbilism, I've decided, is partly responsible for a lot of our nation's problems today.

The Futurist

The Futurist is offering "Eight Ways To Supercharge The US Economy".

I especially like the moving of Tax Day (April 15th) to the day before Election Day.

That one really makes you think.

Don't Buy Crap You Can't Afford

Lieberman Punts

The Washington Times takes Sen. Joe Lieberman to task for seeming to punt on a review of the Walpin Firing.

Joe, I wrote you in (along with Zell Miller) as my vote for president in 2004 because I believed you had more integrity than the others.

Please do a proper, full, and public review of Mr. Walpin's firing!

Why Aid To Africa Kills

From Uncommon Knowledge parts two and three of the five part series interviewing Dambisa Moyo who explains how she escaped the dire poverty that marks Africa today.

Dambisa Moyo grew up in Zambia. She holds a master’s degree from Harvard, an MBA from American University, and a doctorate from Oxford, and has worked for the World Bank and Goldman Sachs. She is the author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa.