Month: June 2009
Green Hell nears: Waxman-Markey atrocity passes House 219-212
… let’s kill it in the Senate!
Tune in for the Boehner filibuster…
… our new hero filibustering the Waxman-Markey bill on C-SPAN!
Hurray for John Boehner!
Rep. Nunes hits nail on head…
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) pitied Waxman-Markey supporters today as yielding to “the twisted desires of radical environmentalists.”
At least someone gets it…
Neal: Alarmism is the ‘science of our times’
Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) said that it was hard to work with Republicans because many of them reject global warming, which Neal called “the science of out times.”
Sheesh of the day: Cantor says removing CO2 a ‘noble endeavor’
Amid a pretty could floor speech against Waxman-Markey, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) inexplicably said that “removing CO2 from the atmosphere is a noble endeavor.”
God save us from our friends…
Scaredy-CAT: USCAP member switches on W-M
Energy & Environment News reports that heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar now opposes Waxman-Markey:
“We cannot endorse this bill in its current form,” Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Jim Owens wrote in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) yesterday. “Despite our efforts to improve portions of the bill, specific provisions relating to non-road equipment, black carbon, border measures and other critical issues remain problematic.”
Owens was a fool to ever think that global warming legislation would work for his company.
BTW, Greenpeace also now opposes W-M because it
…has been so heavily influenced by the coal and oil industries…
Butterfield: W-M ‘literally will save the planet’
Rep. G.K. Butterfield says that Waxman-Markey “literally will save the planet.”
Phew…
McCotter: W-M ‘nuts on its face’
Rep. Thadeus McCotter (R-MI) declaimed Waxman-Markey as “nuts on its face.”
Inslee: W-M opponents lack imagination
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) today said that opponents of Waxman-Markey lack imagination. We went to the moon, why can’t we get off foreign oil, he asked.
Latest: Dems lacks votes…
Carbon Control News reports at 1:35pm ET that
… the majority currently lacks the votes to pass the landmark cap-and-trade proposal.
But Politico reports that
Dems smell victory…
Stay tuned…
Waxman-Markey is Obama photo-op
A Texas congressman said that W-M is no more than a photo-op for Obama in Copenhagen while the Chinese and Indians laugh behind our back.