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

Are you saying that the House is full of wussies? I actually believe you. I have seen “token” bills get out of there to be roundly and rightly defeated in the Senate. I will have to ask my Oregon reps (not just my own) if they are given a pill at the outset of their job that brings on this strange malady. Passing token legislation just for your voting record is grounds for “next time around” dismissal as far as I am concerned.

TO ALL CANADIANS:
Canada is also going down that same path. Instead of waiting for a last minute protest action, we should start today to tell our elected officials that we don’t want it and will vote against anyone that will vote for suck bill. We must let them know today that they must vote on this according to what the voting people want and not according to their party position.
If all fails, we might have our own Maple Leaf Revolution.

All I am getting are busy signals. Any suggestions?

Unfortunate, not being a citizen (just a taxpayer), there’s not a lot I can do today, and I believe Wisconsin’s representation is already decided (typically, regardless of what the majority think). But I would recommend folks have a look at Roger Pielke Jr.’s post on the subject:
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2009/06/for-those-of-you-interested-in-w-m-vote.html
He gives his usual level-headed take, albeit briefly.

I didn’t see my rep’s name anywhere, decided or leaning. I wrote him anyway though (Visclosky, IN-1st) to let him know what I think of this peice of junk legislation.
I think it will pass. Too many “leaning yes” on the list. And hey, if these guys are talking about taxing health care (“free” or otherwise) in economic times like these… well, why wouldn’t they pass this nail in the coffin?

Eve: How dare you call the author of The Green Shift, a nutball.
Why, he even named his dog Kyoto. (yes, he really did)
Of course, in the Texas vernacular , “that dog cain’t hunt.”

We managed to keep the NDP out at the last provincial election. While the current Liberal party did introduce a “revenue neutral” carbon tax, it’s the lesser of two evils. The NDP wanted to replace the carbon tax with cap and trade.

John G. Bell (09:52:37) :
Now that Cohen’s future has been decided for him he is free to vote his mind. Or will he take charge of his fate and listen to his constituents?
He voted for TARP. I know first hand that at one point he had received 57 phone calls, 56 of which were against it (influential people in my office, one of whom has his cell #). In the end, he ignored it.
http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=22428&can_id=24340
He hasn’t been listening since he made it to Washington.

“I’m a constituent of Representative ______________ and I strongly oppose HR 2454 / HR 2998.
I strongly oppose all global taxation schemes. Any support for global governance is treason.
The central thesis that CO2 is causing warming is incorrect. The earth is now cooling since 2003…
The “Smart Grid” is nothing short of a total control grid. It would become the infrastructure for Orwell’s 1984.
This is a bad piece of legislation and the Democrats’ attempts to ram it through are reprehensible.”

Looks like they want to pull out the bill until later today because they are loosing:
http://algorelied.com/?p=2316

“”” twawki (06:08:57) :
Another good article here;
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/06/26/morning-bell-waxman-markey-bill-is-an-energy-tax-that-doesnt-work/
Quote “There’s one thing the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill doesn’t do: Work. All of the above-mentioned costs accrue in the first 25 years of a 90-year program that, as calculated by climatologists, will lower temperatures by only hundredths of a degree Celsius in 2050 and no more than two-tenths of a degree Celsius at the end of the century. In the name of saving the planet for future generations, Waxman-Markey does not sound like a great deal: Millions of lost jobs, trillions of lost income, 50-90 percent higher energy prices, and stunning increases in the national debt, all for undetectable changes in world temperature. Who’s buying that?” “””
Well anyone who believes this bill and its agenda is going to lower global temperatures; or lower or even limit the growth of atmospheric CO2 is simply living in a dream world. It isn’t going to happen even if they pass this bill; and then turn loose a handfull of unelected, borderline criminally insane beaurocrats to make regulations (EPA) to tax people for breathing.
So they are going to eliminate carbonaceous fossil fuels, and replace them with free green renewable energy ?
Balderdash ! There’s a reason why free green clean renewable energy is so much more expensive that fossil fuels. It takes more energy capital to make market usable free green clean renewable energy available; and that energy capital comes from fossil fuels containing carbon.
The wasteful government subsidies used to bribe ignorant people to install free green clean renewable solar panels and the like, are monies that the government gets from taxing profit making enterprises, at something like a corporate tax rate of 35%. So every dollar used to subsidize renewables so they are only much higher in cost than existing energy supplies; requires someone to make about three dollars in pretax profit. To do that they have to sell something like $50 worth of goods or services to come up with that $1 subsidy. And that $50 worth of goods or services has to be generated from existing energy sources, which are primarily fossil fuel based.
If I use one Joule of fossil energy to manufacture one Joule of free clean green renewable energy; that someone can use in their car; that is just at energy break even; then a total of two Joules of energy is used to do a task that could have been done with just one, by putting that fossil fuel in the car in the first place. Even if the energy gain is two for one; so I only use one Joule of Fossil fuel to get two Joules of say ethanol, or bio-diesel fuel, it still takes three Joules to do the real work that could have been done with just two.
If free green clean renewable energy was energy capital competitive with fossil fuels; it would already have replaced fossil fuels; because the real total cost of any eneterprise is the sum total of all the energies it takes to get there.
Renewable energy amounts to a Ponzi scheme; it relies on the ready availability of fossil fuels to operate the free green clean renewable energy plant.
Well you American Citizens are about to reap the whirlwind; with the fools you have voted into office. History will remember those who created this coming global disaster; and this one will make climate change irrelevent.
George