As the comparative ‘adults’ in this nation, we have given up on controlling these kids. They will burn the house down unless we take their matches.

WTF is it about having choices that these people resent so much?

Or are they really that bone-shatteringly stupid? It’s almost more comforting to believe that they’re evil.

Of course not all Republican Senators were opposed to a massive tax hike and regulation of the economy.

The 48-36 vote fell short of a majority, but Democrats produced letters from six senators—including both presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain—saying they would have voted for the measure had they been there.

If you are worried or concerned about the pending or future global warming legislation, please contact:

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE, SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN– it’s his baby.

McCain sent a letter saying he would have voted for it.

And if you don’t vote for him, it’ll be YOUR FAULT!

misterpeasea on June 6, 2008 at 12:14 PM

President Huckabee will veto such a bill if the Socialists manage to pass it in the next Congress.

“We really didn’t expect to have such a truncated debate,” said Boxer. “We are working colleague to colleague to see how many votes we have to stop the filibuster.”

LOL.

Stopping the filibuster IS truncating debate.

The whole point is that the Democratic Socialists don’t want a debate. They want their bill passed without debate. When the Republicans filibustered, the Demoncrats should have been happy…this would be the time for them to openly debate AGW. But they don’t want debate. The debate is over, remember? They have the almighty CONSENSUS, remember?
(Just like there is CONSENSUS about Darwinian Evolution! There is no debate allowed there…except that the debate on HotAir led to the most commented HotAir thread of all time.)

The socialists are afraid, very afraid, of open and honest scientific inquiry and debate about either of their “consensuses”: AGW and Darwinian Evolution.

If they can’t pass their bill quickly, they don’t want debate…they want to shelve it, protect McCain, and wait for the next Congress and President, who they hope will pass it.

And if you don’t vote for him, it’ll be YOUR FAULT!

Idiots in Washington need to face reality. Reality is that Amercians like to be moblie, like cheap energy, and expect our leaders to encourge that. reality also states you can not have a robust economy propped up by 2/3 consumer spending when energy is hitting all time highs.

I’m not one to defend Maxine Waters, but this is inaccurate. Waters did not say she wants to nationalize the energy industry. She threatened to nationalize the energy industry–which is bad enough that there is no reason to distort what she said.

thuja on June 6, 2008 at 8:20 AM

False. Direct quote in statement to President of Shell Oil:

This liberal would be about socializing, uh uh, basically taking over and the government running all of your companies.

Democrats, led by the coastal Left such as Barbara Boxer, see no problem in kneecapping major American industries in order to adopt a system that has already failed in Europe.

You do know that this is the Lieberman-Warner bill, right? Lieberman, the guy the right is in love with, and Warner the GOP Senator? And that a previous verion of this same bill was called the Lieberman-McCain bill? This bill is bipartisan nonsense. It often seems that any measure with bipartisan support is a gigantic boondoggle.

BTW Why don’t we send Boxer off somewhere in a quiet place to embroider that nightmare of an organizational chart that entrenches more octopus tentacles of bureaucracy into our already too-big government? At least by focusing on enhancing her seamstress abilities, she might have at least one marketable skill.

The present temperature regime (essentially flat for the last ten years) will possibly, with a high probability, tip over into a cooling trend over the next few decades.

Real thinkers will realize that this global cooling may not be such a good thing. Lower food production and higher heating oil consumption in the face of rising oil prices will, all of a sudden, become the new goblin for Congress to fight as global warming is replaced by global cooling.

I don’t think these politicians can change gears that fast.

BTW: Did Drudge get bought out by Soros, or has he simply been drinking the DC koolaid? Drudge has been highlighting Liberal talking points for weeks now; all Obama, all of the time.

Keemo on June 6, 2008 at 9:30 AM

had to remove him from my homepage. Couldn’t take it anymore. I know a guy at one of the big talk radio shows. He says the ability to stay on message, and hold the candidate’s feet to the fire, is difficult when everyday the campaign calls promising extreme access to the candidate (and the WH) if the host will play ball.

Human nature is human nature. Drudge, for whatever reason, wants Obama to be President. He’s basically a two-man show, so his personal feelings have gotten in the way of his profession– and it’s glaringly obvious. Too bad, but not that surprising I guess.

Amen brother!

BTW: Did Drudge get bought out by Soros, or has he simply been drinking the DC koolaid? Drudge has been highlighting Liberal talking points for weeks now; all Obama, all of the time.

Don’t you get it? Even if we ever had such a harebrained cap and trade plan as this in our country, the people will NEVER stand for it being managed by the government. We will not allow so much of our economy to fall under government control, even if cap and trade were necessary–which it isn’t.

McCain– there are those here who argue that between amnesty and cap and trade, you will destroy America and capitalism. Add socialized medicine and the remaining private economy is too small for people to bother with. How are you going to answer your critics?

Do you even know the fire you’re playing with?

I’m not one to defend Maxine Waters, but this is inaccurate. Waters did not say she wants to nationalize the energy industry. She threatened to nationalize the energy industry–which is bad enough that there is no reason to distort what she said.

thuja on June 6, 2008 at 8:20 AM

Wrong.

This Congress has got to be the most dangerous group of people ever assembled!

Keemo on June 6, 2008 at 8:45 AM

I THINK THAT OUR CONGRESS HAS GONE CERTIFIABLY CRAZY!! How DARE they even ATTEMPT to pass such HORRIFIC legislation that would cripple our economy. And yes, I’M SCREAMING!!!

pullingmyhairout on June 6, 2008 at 8:59 AM

The founding fathers, rather extraordinarily, seem to have planned for every contingency, including this one…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -

Now it’s not time for rebellion yet, of course, but the mechanism/duty/right/necessity is well established.

Buckle-up, it’s gonna be one helluva ride.

They will break it into pieces and try to slip it through in the dead of night, like the Mcshamnesty bill

abinitioadinfinitum on June 6, 2008 at 8:52 AM

In ’09 they will not have to. There will be a rose garden signing.

Waters did not say she wants to nationalize the energy industry. She threatened to nationalize the energy industry

That’s a distinction without much difference. Here’s a link to just what she said.

–which is bad enough that there is no reason to distort what she said.

Whether she wants to socialize the oil industry, or would do so while crying tears of regret (crocodile ones, I’m sure), what it says about the leftward drift of the Democratic Party, its cynical pandering to populism, and its ignorance of basic economics is the same.