ACES Up Her Sleeve (1)
Well before Barack Obama brought hope to the White House, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was adamant that something new and different and wonderful had arrived. In 2006, the incoming Speaker pledged that hers would be the “most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.”
At the time, we were skeptical — to say the least. Our refusal to accept her rhetoric was roundly vindicated last week. That was when Madam-Speaker used every dirty trick at her disposal to coldly ram a 1,500 page global warming bill through the House of Representatives.
The Speaker chose to stifle the usual observances of deliberative democracy because open, honest debate would have attracted unwelcome scrutiny to her massive new energy tax.
Pelosi’s legislation, the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act, would raise the price of hydrocarbon energy sources like coal and oil thought to cause global warming, but which power 85 percent — 85 percent! — of the economic production in America.
A large energy tax during a deep recession is a political cyanide pill that 44 of Pelosi’s Democratic colleagues refused to swallow. That almost doomed the bill and in fact would have killed it outright Friday night if eight Republicans hadn’t voted with the majority of Democrats. (The final vote was 219 to 212.)
Likely there would have been many more Democratic “no” votes if Madame-Speaker and Energy & Commerce chairman Henry Waxman didn’t find creative ways to shorten or skip every step of that “How a Bill Becomes a Law” song.
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Notes:
Doesn’t this “little piece of heaven” hail from the bankrupt state?
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MaryT Says:
I read some of the comments re the above story. One question asked several time,
what happens if the climate refuses to co-operate with the legislation. And, what will future generaltions think when they read how this govt tried to legislate the weather.
Posted on June 30th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Mac Says:
The Democrats are determined to make an omelette which no-one will ever unscramble…
Posted on July 1st, 2009 at 12:04 am
Pat Says:
It’s unthinkable that in a democratic country with great art, universities, architecture, science and on and on, that people could be brain washed and brain bashed into supporting some very, very strange ideas. It happened in Germany and as near as I can see, it’s happening in the US and to a very large degree in Canada.
Will there be knocks on the door because you’ve posted anti-government statements? Anti-Climate Change/Global Warming statements? Anti-Socialist statements? Pro-Gun statements? Anti/Immigration statements?
The first step is to depersonalize you enemy and we’ve earned the name of “Deniers” which seems to carry the same weight in their world, as comments that in my world would get you a punch in the mouth.
I know that the chant that is repeated just prior to the head being reinserted into the sand is “It can’t happen here” but I’m not so sure that this is the case. Maybe in Canada we’ve got a chance, but the US has got a real hand full to deal with. The empty suit has a cult following that borders on hysteria.
Ah yes, a life during interesting times.
Posted on July 1st, 2009 at 3:28 pm