Cap and Trade Bill Means Economic Disaster for America

Does anyone in our congress know what they are doing, especially the ones that are sitting on their hands and voting like they are told? The Democrats, of course, will vote like they are told as they know if they don't the consequences could be dire - like one their children could be mugged on the way to school or their wives become involved in a bad car accident.

You know, Chicago style politics.

Unfortunately the few Republicans that sit on the fence and vote which ever way the winds blows should be removed from office but will continue to cause our country problems until they are. These RINOS, Republicans in name only, should be, must be, voted out of office in 2010 without fail. They should then join the ranks of the insane, the liberal Democrats.

Call your senators and tell them to vote this disaster down.


Center For Individual Freedom

Only the United States Senate stands in the way of what the Wall Street Journal calls “the biggest tax in American history.”

That’s because the Pelosi-led House of Representatives just strong-armed the so-called American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (also known as “Cap-and-Trade”) through the House of Representatives.

According to the Heritage Foundation, this massive “national energy tax” could cost the average family "nearly $3,000 per household per year." House Minority Leader John Boehner points out that it will “put millions of Americans out of work” as American jobs are shipped overseas or lost outright.

Even President Obama admitted that under “Cap-and-Trade” legislation, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." But that’s not all. Apparently, few if any Members of the House of Representatives even bothered to read this massive “national energy tax” before voting on it. Does this sound familiar?

According to Pioneer Press: "Last week, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (the 'Cap and Trade Energy Bill'), or H.R. 2454, was 946 pages long. Over the weekend, it ballooned to 1,201 pages with no explanation for how or why.”

Then, to add insult to injury, on the day of the vote, the Pelosi-led Congress added another 255 pages to the bill (which no one had read to begin with) at 3:00 AM (EST) and limited debate to three hours before passing this massive “national energy tax” at 7:16 PM (EST).

And when Boehner tried to read some of the provisions of this bill aloud on the floor of the House, liberals in Congress tried to shut him down. "Democrats tried to shut me down as I read parts of Speaker Pelosi's national energy tax (also known as ‘cap and trade’) out loud on the House floor. For more than an hour I cited provisions that will destroy American jobs, raise prices for gasoline and electricity, and devastate middle-class families and small businesses," said Minority Leader Boehner.

If we are going to beat this horrifying reality… if we are going to defeat "Cap and Trade," the time to act is now.