At the 4:12 mark, a speaker says that he hopes Castle loses his Congressional seat over his support of cap and trade, and the crowd cheers. Castle smiles briefly, then his face grows grim.
Around the 7:12 mark, Castle is booed after he says he believes in AGW.
The town hall listening tour on health care 3 days after his vote for Cap and Trade. June 30, 2009.
Michael Castle: Information from Answers.com
Michael Newbold “Mike” Castle (born July 2, 1939) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, and two terms as Governor of Delaware. He is currently the incumbent Republican U.S. Representative, serving his eighth term.
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Protesters show up at Space office | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | Zanesville Times Recorder
Rich Miller, 76, of Zanesville, said he, too, is concerned about not just health care, but how the entire system is running.
“I’m sick to death of the whole deal,” Miller said. “The government is taking everything they can out of the people’s hands.”
Miller said he wants to see values in the country returned to the way they were more than a year ago.
“It scares me to death what the people in Washington are doing to us,” Miller said. “I voted for Space but when he voted for the Cap and Trade, that was it.”
Mark Hicks drove from Athens to tell Space that he’s never seen a more irresponsible government.
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Zachary T. “Zack” Space (born January 27, 1961) of Dover, Ohio, is an American politician of the Democratic Party and presently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio’s 18th congressional district.
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We are having a “Howard Beale” moment here:
This is just the beginning.
I know how deeply rooted Republican voters and politicians usually are in their values.
Cap & Trade is about as extremist as you can get to them.
I must have seemed like a nightmare to those in that room, thier trusted GOP Congressman voting for that bill.
Right, the people made the promisse to vote him out of office at the next election.
That should do it.
Hopefully the Senators get the same message.
Thanks for posting this video.
OT, but it looks like NYC finally touched 85 degrees, for the first time in June or July. It happened yesterday, for less than one hour, according to the NWS Central Park records. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KNYC.html.
Doesn’t look like it’s going to happen again in the short term, so it could be the only time all summer.
Douglas DC (13:22:58) :
We are having a “Howard Beale” moment here:
Right, that was when television was the dominant medium.
But the concept is good.
People have a lot “to be mad as hell” about with this Administration.
Looks more like Russia by the day.
Delaware has only one House district. The majority of the voters in the state are in the heavily Democrat New Castle County. AGW is a “hook” that the Democratic Party uses to justify their social agenda. In fact, it has been stated that they “don’t care” if the AGW theory is wrong, they are going to continue to pound on it in order to get their “global governance” agenda further along.
Mike Castle is not going to say anything in public that offends his Democrat voters who make up the majority of his constituents. He has an R after his name but he runs in a very Democratic district. Statewide, Delaware is 48% Democrat, 31% Republican, and 21% “other”. Castle’s popularity stems from his two terms as Governor of the state. He was Lt. Governor for the extremely popular Pete du Pont and rode into office on duPont’s popularity, sort of like George HW Bush after Reagan.
Castle is going to say the “correct” thing because his career depends on it. It isn’t about “AGW”. It is about politics.
Substantial part of the Climate Bill, green energy, wind energy:
How can wind turbines generate so much lunacy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5858989/How-can-wind-turbines-generate-so-much-lunacy.html
I ask myself how so much lunacy created the Climate Bill and real lunatics voted in favor of it. Because lunacy it is.
Mark Kirk in Illinois is drawing similar heat. I have done several posts on him at “Power and Control”.
I don’t understand why cap-and-trade is needed. All the government has to do is allocate substantial funding (or just print more money) for alternative energy sources and when we come up with one (or more) in x years, then we start the switch. And this is assuming that the AGW science is right.
I read somewhere that one iteration of this cap-and-trade bill has us sending billions of dollars to companies in foreign countries to not chop down trees…
All the Cap n’ Tradesters, Democratic and Republican alike are traitors. They sold out our country in favor of a fraudulent idea based on lies which will be extremely costly to us. I don’t think the Dems know what’s coming toward them next election. People are angry.
EVEN if it does it – they’ll just do it again. The lesson that Politics hijacked science won’t be learned. If we are lucky those that did it this time will be shamed but Gore already made I don’t know how many millions on it. Maybe its just endemic to being human that this will happen.
Anyone live in Delaware that would challenge him in the primary? You’ve got the backing of a lot of people if so!
Mark (14:08:18) :
Yes, they’ll take out billions to not chop down trees and turn right around and do it anyway. Stupidity squared.
He lied about reading. I use videoconferencing for interviewing. We are trained in catching how people lie. I did read the addition. It was not a straightforward document. It used line after line partial sentences that reffered back to certain paragraphs and how they should change You can’t read a paragraph on the first long section without the related changes required by the addendum.
I have read the health care bill entirely. Page 425 mentions how every 5 years or less old people should get counseling regarding “giving it up”. I wonder at his age if he will submit to giving up soon? They of course have a more flowery wording than I used.
I have been in five wars for the United States, so not much rattles me, but I have to admit, this internal battle with its European tentacles is beginning to be a bit unnerving.
“Anyone live in Delaware that would challenge him in the primary? ”
If your political message is counter-“progressive” your family will be attacked, the friends of your family will be attacked, your trash will be gone through, neighbors questions, etc. It is part of the “shut up” politics the Democratic party uses in this country. If they don’t like your message, they use the same tactics as organized crime does to intimidate you into silence.
Delaware = duPont . Think about it – they stand to gain big from C&T . Lawrence Solomon had a column on this in the National Post a couple of weeks ago .
I wonder how many and which Senators will receive this kind of reaction when they take their fall break? I suspect quite a few. This kind of thing can easily snowball (pun intended ), and hopefully will put a stop to the foolishness in DC. It’s one thing to be on the receiving end of emails, and quite another to have people get in your face!
Snow-ball senators who believe in Global Warming?
Nice irony there 😀
@ur momisugly henrychance – ……………………Page 425 mentions how every 5 years or less old people should get counseling regarding “giving it up” .
Well, if one believes that people are the cause of the prophesied “Climate Catastrophe” , then the logical remedy is to eliminate the people. Perhaps we can get folks like Castle, Gore, Hansen, Pelosi, Obama, et al to lead by example. 😉
D. King (14:20:48) :
I have been in five wars for the United States, so not much rattles
me, but I have to admit, this internal battle with its European
tentacles is beginning to be a bit unnerving.
E Pluribus Unum!
Keep the faith mate – This may be the dirtiest of your half-dozen wars – Ms Gaia is on our side this time
Faites attention!
After a ‘flurry” of sunspots, solar flux (10.7 cm radio waves) is down to 66.
http://www.solarcycle24.com/ [look at the text, not the data box, which shows a rounded number]
Yikes. Keep an eye on the flux number; if it starts declining again, it’s hunker-down time, notithstanding a periodic spot or two. There just won’t be enough energy available to get “normal” ramp-up of SC24.
BTW have NASA revised their SC24 predictions again yet??
crosspatch (14:27:58) :
“Anyone live in Delaware that would challenge him in the primary? ”
If your political message is counter-”progressive” your family will be attacked, the friends of your family will be attacked, your trash will be gone through, neighbors questions, etc. It is part of the “shut up” politics the Democratic party uses in this country. If they don’t like your message, they use the same tactics as organized crime does to intimidate you into silence.
Crosspatch, I’ve read and silently agreed, with every one of your numerous posts hitherto, until now. I can’t argue with the points you made about what has happened before. They are a matter of public record but your negativism about what will happen is defeatist.
The tide is turning – public scepticism is on the increase- even RealClimacteric is expressing caveats that “Apocolypse Now” may be “Apocolypse Apologia”
Remember that the darkest hour is just before dawn- and reality is dawning and damned quickly.
Keep up the good work sir.
What we are dealing with is “commies”.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/6-green-lessons-communism.php
http://www.greencommunism.org/
and Obama’s Green Special Advisor for Green Jobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones – “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, …” he said. “By August, I was a communist.” [17]
History seems to be working in mysterious ways. Someone has probably made this comparison before on WUWT, but the Cap’n’Traders appear to be following a path similar in some ways to that of the British government in the late 18th Century. Waxman-Markey – in the tradition of the Townshend Acts of 1767? Strange times, these.