Life's Inanities and Ironies

With or without our consent the powers that be in our supposed House of Representatives once again said they don't care what the majority of their constituents want and passed H.R. 2454: The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 Here’s a PDF link to the bill passed by congress today and heading for the Senate. HR 2454 BTW, the vote was 219-212 with enough Republicans crossing the aisle to pass it. I would openly like to thank my own Congressman Joe Donnelly for having the sense and the intestinal fortitude to go against his party. Only 2 Indiana Representatives, Democrats Andre’ Carson from the 7 th district and Baron Hill from the 9 th , voted for HR 2454. Want to see how your Congressman voted on this bill? And here are some highlights of the 300 page amendment tacked on in the wee hours of the morning. It was amazing to listen to Boehner run down the 300+ page amendment to the bill that got dumped on Congress at 3 AM Friday morning. Among th...

Below is a copy of the message I have sent to my Congressman Joe Donnelly "Representative Donnelly, HR 2454, the "Cap-and-Trade" bill scheduled to come before you for a vote very soon, is nothing more than a thinly disguised energy tax that will hit every single American. I have called and left a message to let you know That I personally am against this and as my representative I ask that you take this into consideration when you vote. If those I have been talking to locally are any indication a large majority of your constituents have no clue as to the impact this is going to have on their lives if passed. I am hoping that you sir ARE aware. Even tho the goal of this bill is a lofty one and it may force a change in the way energy is produced in this country, it's counterparts around the world have failed miserably. President Obama himself claimed in several campaign speeches before the election that if this plan was put into effect it would rais...

TOMORROW (Friday June 26 th , 2009), the House will vote on the Pelosi/ Obama-pushed massive carbon tax -- what the Wall Street Journal today is calling the "biggest tax in American history." That means we have just a few hours left to voice our opposition. The Journal says the bill "defies the laws of economics" and then lambasts the Congressional Budget Office for totally ignoring the negative effects on the economy this bill will cause. For example, Heritage Foundation’s estimates that the cap-and-trade Carbon Tax will: "Reduce aggregate Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by $9.6 trillion" "Destroy up to 2.5 million jobs in some years" "Raise electric rates 90%, gasoline prices by 74%, and natural gas prices by 55% after adjusting for inflation" "Raise a typical family's average annual energy bill by $1,500." I am asking everyone to take immediate action in two ways: #1 --...

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, says he was dismayed that Congress passed the war supplemental appropriations bill so easily last week. “An economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress and this administration,” Paul said during his weekly radio address Monday. “Washington spends with impunity, domestically bailing and nationalizing basically everything they can get their hands on,” Paul said. Mocking the idea that Obama was a “peace candidate,” Paul pointed out that his administration will be sending another $106 billion it doesn't have "to continue the bloodshed in Afghanistan and Iraq without a hint of a plan to bring American troops home." Paul noted that many of his congressional colleagues who previously voted with him in opposition to every war supplemental request under the Bush administration seem to have changed their tune. He maintains that a vote to fund the war is a vote in favor of the war. “Congress exercises its constitutional prerogatives ...

From CNN’s Alex Castellanos ( click for the complete commentary ): Imagine if, a week before he dispatched John McCain in November, Barack Obama had stood before the American people and told them what he would actually do. “My fellow Americans, if you elect me president next Tuesday, I propose to grow our government to unprecedented size, increase federal spending to never-imagined levels and double the debt in our country. I will support $1.3 trillion in new taxes even as our recession deepens. I will take advantage of the crisis to expand federal control of health care, the energy industry, banks, Wall Street and the car business, fire GM’s CEO and sign a stimulus bill with nearly 9,000 earmarks. “I will undo much of Bill Clinton’s welfare reform by giving ‘tax cuts’ to non-taxpayers. I will propose a crushing tax on energy, making it more expensive to drive to work or cook dinner. I will choose men who have not paid their taxes as my key economic advisers and will have no ...