The Waxman-Markey pre-vote count – where you can help

As a European deep in the Kyoto madness since years I have already seen the VERY visible impacts on the European economy (f.ex the increasing decoupling of the purchase power evolutions from the rest of the world , increasing delocalisation trends , exploding energy prices) .
I was glad that at least the Bush administration stood as a dam against the folly .
Now with Obama it seems that the dam is beginning to get a beating from the radicals , enviro fanatics and technological society haters too .
I hope for the sake of you in the US and of all of us elsewhere that this bill doesn’t pass .
It is not 1 mail that you should do but 10 and ask all your friends and relatives to do the same .
ACT NOW !

OT, but will WUWT do a tribute page for Michael Jackson? Very sad day he was soo young. This is crazy. I feel for his family and friends..

More political madness this time from the UK Gordon Brown wants to use money from development aid to fight global warming.
“Brown proposes £60bn climate fund ”
“Money could be raised from selling carbon permits and from existing development aid budgets, although he said contributions from the latter should be limited. ”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8120432.stm

Called my representative this morning. He’s leaning “Yes”.

It may well come down to the “Useless Idiots” (AKA Republican Senators and a few Blue Dog Democrat Senators) having enough backbone and votes to filibuster in the Senate. The parliamentary trick there is to vote YES for closure, where a super-majority is required, and then vote NO on the final legislation which is a simple 50% plus one majority up-down vote. That way they can tell the folks back home they voted NO when in fact they voted YES. Any Senator voting YES for closure effectively voted YES for Cap-and-Tax. But first the House of Representatives!
Michael Ronayne
Nutley, NJ

From the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588837560750781.html
“Even as Democrats have promised that this cap-and-trade legislation won’t pinch wallets, behind the scenes they’ve acknowledged the energy price tsunami that is coming. During the brief few days in which the bill was debated in the House Energy Committee, Republicans offered three amendments: one to suspend the program if gas hit $5 a gallon; one to suspend the program if electricity prices rose 10% over 2009; and one to suspend the program if unemployment rates hit 15%. Democrats defeated all of them.”

The die hard leftists in this country, including many elected officials, do not care about protecting the Earth, the climate or anything else. Their plan is to destroy enough of the US economy so that millions more will be dependent on the government for their very existence. That will assure that those same officials will be reelected by simply promising to take care of everyone. If you hand out government checks to enough people for a long enough time the recipients will truly believe that they couldn’t get by in this cruel world alone without “help”. First take their money, then take their guns, then take their freedoms.

If the CEI report of the EPA quashing dissent is true, it might nudge a few of the fence sitters. It might also mean the EPA will impose regulations regardless of what Congress does. The president has said he wants it, no matter where it comes from.
“Interesting” times?
(an economic Depression could be “interesting” …)

I’m surprised Mark Kirk is still undecided. I know Mark and have had meetings with him in the past. I’ll be calling him in DC and visiting his office this morning in an attempt to get him to vote against this nonsense.

I contacted Rep. Allen Boyds office in Tallahassee Fl. and was told that the phone and email volume is so high that they are keeping a daily tally. Almost all is running against.

I contacted Rep. Minnick of Idaho’s first district. He is in the leaning yes column. The person answering his phone in the DC office assured me he will vote no. I hope this is true.