42% of Americans Say “Cap & Trade” Bill will Hurt the Economy … Thanks Obama

A special thanks to Barack Obama and the House Democrats and 8 Turncoat Republicans, taxing people in a recession for a scientific myth. There goes the economy.

42% of Americans believe that the recently passed Democratic tax known as “Cap & Trade” will hurt the US economy according to a recent Rasmussen poll. The 24% who are unsure probably have no idea what “cap & trade” really is or the damage that it will cause. Once they are informed the 42% will go even higher.

Americans have mixed feelings about the historic climate change bill that passed the House on Friday, but 42% say it will hurt the U.S. economy.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% believe the climate change bill passed by the House on Friday will help the economy. Fifteen percent (15%) say it will have no impact, and 24% are not sure.

The Weekly Standard makes a great point in that once Americans hear that Democrats and elitist liberals call those in opposition and simply stating their opinion as treasonous to the planet, the numbers will grow.

And this gets to the crux of why cap and trade may end up being such a tremendous boon to Republicans. Not only do the American people oppose it by a healthy margin, but they are having it foisted on them by elites who smugly deride their opposition as treason to planet earth.

FYI to the uninformed regarding “Cap and Trade,” according to a study by the Heritage Foundation, the legislation would cost the average family nearly $3,000 per household per year.

Unbelievable: Carol Browner, Energy Czar Questioned as to Whether She Read Cap & Trade Bill … Answer, No!

Criminal … Remember America, they work for “We the People”.

We prosecute Bernie Madoff for the fraud he perpetrated on unsuspecting investors, yet a government is supposed to go unchecked and allowed to partake in their own fraud on America called “cap & trade”.  They feel any question that actually questions them is not worthy of and answer and mean spirited.

Barack Obama’s Energy Czar, Carol Browner, appeared on Fox & Friend’s yesterday to discuss the “cap & trade” Obama energy tax on all Americans that recently passed the House by a narrow majority. One might assume that the Obama energy czar would have read the bill since after all she is the energy czar. However, you know what happens when you ASS-U-ME!

As reported by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, after Fox’s Steve Doocy asks Browner whether she has read the entire “cap and Tax” bill, she gets defensive and declares that it is unfair that Doocy blindsided her. Blindsided for asking whether she read the bill that she was discussing? Are you joking? She was asked a simple question as to whether she read the bill and that is supposed to be a gotcha question? Sadly, no one read this bill in the House but saw fit to inflict it upon “WE THE PEOPLE”.

“I’ve read vast portions of it.”

STEVE DOOCY: “[I] know the bill is over 1,000 pages long. Have you have read it?”
CAROL BROWNER: “Oh, I’m very familiar with this bill.”
DOOCY: “Have you have read it?”
BROWNER: “We have obviously been watching this for a very long time. I am very …”
DOOCY: “I’m sure you’ve got an idea of it, but you have read it?”
BROWNER: “I’ve read major portions of it, absolutely.”
DOOCY: “So the answer no you haven’t read it. But you’ve read a big chunk of it.”
BROWNER: “No, no, no that’s not fair. That’s absolutely not fair.”

So let’s get this correct. An Obama mouth piece goes on national TV to shill and spin to the American people that “cap & trade” is not a tax on all American’s and that it will not greatly increase all Americans energy bills, yet energy czar Carol Browner finds it unfair for her to be asked whether she read the damn “pile of sh#t” in the first place?

How privileged does the Obama White House think they are that they do not have to answer to “We the People”? 

Republican Minority Leader Boehner: Climate bill a ‘pile of s–t’ … If the Crap Fits … Cap & Trade

What does Republican Minority House Leader John Boehner  think of “Cap & Trade” … or is it crap & trade? John Boehner called the climate “cap & trade” bill “a pile of $hit”.  Boehner know his crap, that is for certain. Weasel Zippers reminds us that Boehner is the same individual who called the stimulus bill what it really is, a “crap sandwich”….. He was correct once before.

Weird Science or Global Waring Junk Science … Same doodoo

Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a few choice words about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) landmark climate-change bill after its passage Friday.

When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night, Boehner told The Hill, “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of s–t.”

Here is a reminder of the 8 Republican turncoats who need to be voted out of office in 2010.

It is not just Republicans that are calling “cap & trade” a tax, interestingly enough, Barack Obama supporter Warren Buffet says it is nothing more than a HUGE tax.  Warren Buffet states that a tax on energy will be passed through to the customer. “It’s a tax like anything else” and will be passed on through to the customer … hint, that would be to “We the People”.

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When Your Energy Bills Go Up … Here are the 8 Turncoats Republicans Who Voted for to Cap & Tax and Higher Energy Taxes

When you wonder in the future why your energy bills are higher, you can thank the 8 turncoat Republicans below. The bill passed in the House 219–212 and eight Republicans made the difference.  As stated by Michelle Malkin … say hello to the Tax & Cap 8.

You can also thank the Democrats who overwhelmingly voted to raise taxes on all Americans in the midst of a recession and rush legislation through

Listed at Michelle Malkin.com are the telephone #’s of these idiots so that “We the People” can give them are earful. While you are at it, just tell them to switch parties to the Democrats as they are no Republicans.

Congrats, congresspeople, you helped the Democrats pass a junk science-based, massive national energy tax. Headed to Disney World now?

We still want to know: What were your payoffs/earmarks?

As reported by Jammie Wearing Fool, “You can blame the Democrats for crafting this most invasive and sweeping government control of your life, but it is the Republicans who passed it.”

America’s only chance is that this bill is killed in the Senate as proposed by OK Senator Inhofe.

Barack Obama Says It’s OK for Iran to Have Nuclear Power, As Long as Its For Energy … So Why Can’t the United States?

More Kumbaya Foreign Policy from the Obamamessiah …

More naive and dangerous talk from either the most clueless or the most dangerous Commander and Chief that the United States has ever seen. This is just another example of elections have consequences.

President Barack Obama stated that Iran has the right the have nuclear power as long as they use it for good and not evil. That is correct. Barack Hussein Obama thinks its perfectly fine for Iran and their crazed leader President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to have nuclear capability. Are we really supposed to believe that a country with the vast amount of oil that Iran has wants nuclear capability for the use of power rather than bombs?

Hey Barack, are you trying to create a war in the Middle East? How long do you think Israel is going to put up with this? Then again, Obama does seem to be crossing the line with Israel. Iran, a sworn enemy to both the USA and Israel, and we have a President that thinks Iran’s fanatical government is going to use nuclear technology for good. US and Israel relations have certainly taken a turn under Barack Hussein Obama. Not for the better. Why would anyone want to alienate one of the United States greatest allies?

President Barack Obama reiterated that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it takes steps to prove its aspirations are peaceful.

 Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad version of nuclear peace

In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, Obama also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it to set aside any ambitions for nuclear weapons it might harbor.

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Scrooge Scientists Say Christmas is a Global Warming Bah Humbug … Christmas Lights harm the Planet … But They Sure are Pretty

Now Christmas is to blame for global warming …

Bah Humbug, scientists warn that Christmas lights are harmful to the planet due to the huge waste of electricity and green house gas emissions. In true Ebenezer Scrooge fashion, scientists rail on Christmas lights as be harmful to the planet as being wasteful yet what about all the other large wasteful consumptions of energy? One would think that these same scientists are against the lights and energy one uses in their homes every day of the year. Conservation is important and in todays world we have a thing called energy saving bulbs. Could one these people just sit back, breathe the air and enjoy the season?

SCIENTISTS have warned that Christmas lights are bad for the planet due to huge electricity waste and urged people to get energy efficient festive bulbs.

CSIRO researchers said householders should know that each bulb turned on in the name of Christmas will increase emissions of greenhouse gases.

Dr Glenn Platt, who leads research on energy demand, said Australia got 80 per cent of its electricity by burning coal which pumps harmful emissions into the atmosphere.

Checks out these lights as well, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Change: Its Not Easy Being Green … Obama’s New Presidential Limo is a Gas Guzzler

Do as I say, not as I do …

More change you can believe in from Barack Obama. During the Presidential campaign Barack Obama promised to get a million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015. However, the Obamamobile that The Chosen One will be using will be a gas guzzler. Hey Barack, it’s not easy being green is it? It’s much easier to yell others how to be green than do it yourself. Obama’s promises of being the most “green” President may be just one of many campaign promises that those who supported Obama may be gravely disappointed.

Obama repeated his campaign pledge to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 and to invest $15 billion a year on energy-saving technologies despite the economic melt-down.

The Obamobile hardly passes as green. One would think the promise from the most “green” President would have provided some symbolism of sorts with his ride. It certainly would have been a message of change if the Presidential limo was, say a hybrid.

The Obamobile being prepared for the president-elect is said to be a monster gas-guzzler made by General Motors, the troubled car giant. It will look like a black Cadillac but is built like a tank. A spy photographer who tracks down future car models for magazines snatched pictures of the heavily disguised first-car-in-waiting when it was being road-tested last summer.

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Beyond BIZARRE as PA Rednecks & Racists Re-elect 17 Term Representative John Murtha in Pennsylvania … BTW PA, You are a Coal State

What the hell was Pennsylvania thinking last night? No state probably did more of a disservice to itself that the Keystone state last night. Not only did they re-elect a man that would openly insult them not once, but twice. A coal state overwhelmingly selects Barack Obama. So much for those coal jobs.

In the end it was not about CHANGE, it was actually about the status quo of re-electing a 17 term Congressman and the airmarks he can provide for your state. It seems to be more about “what money (hand out) can be brought back” rather than change. As for CHANGE, that might just be the devastation of what’s left of the coal industry.

While watching the election returns and coming to understand the plausible reasons why Americans voted for Barack Obama there were certain races that leave me scratching my head in a WTF moment. Ok, America wanted “change” … whatever that might be. Ok, many first time voters and young people who do not pay taxes wanted “change” that is really yet to be defined. Ok, voters were upset with GWB and even Republicans were angered by the lack of conservative fiscal values displayed by so-called Republican candidates. Heck, though in some voter registration fraud, a media in the tank for Obama refusing to vet the candidate and even potential campaign finance violations … I get all that.

However, some one really needs to explain to me what the hell the people of Pennsylvania were thinking yesterday? After being called racists and rednecks by John Murtha, the Keystone State (now know as the Keystone Cop state) actually elected Murtha in an overwhelming 58% majority.   You have got to be joking! In the end, Murtha’s racists and rednecks re-elected him back to Washington, DC.

In spite of calling his constituents “rednecks” and saying that his district was in a racist part of the state, seventeen-term Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha was re-elected with over 58 percent of the vote to beat out retired Republican Army lieutenant colonel William Russell. 

“I first want to say how proud I am to represent this hard-working patriotic area, how much I appreciate the support I got. We turned this thing around in ten days, and the folks worked so hard. I appreciate President Clinton coming in, I appreciate Hillary Clinton’s Robo-calls, and of course Joyce’s long-term work with the Girl Scouts and so forth. All of it paid off,” Murtha said on Tuesday night.

Trouble began for Murtha when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that he said: “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area.” While he apologized, he also told Pittsburgh’s WTAE-TV that “this whole area, years ago, was really redneck.”

Some one from PA really needs to explain the rational how as Murtha so eloquently put it, “You keep sending me back regardless of what I say.”

Obama’s Spreading the Wealth Socialist Plan … To Pay for his Voters Gas and Mortgage

In the end the Obama campaign is all about a hand out and a further dependency on the government.

Sharing your money is neither patriotic or neighborly, it is socialism. Every day in America people take the personal responsibility to donate to charities by choice, not government force. What does Obama have against the American Dream and Americans right of choice and prosperity?

This is hardly the American Dream that we grew up with, let alone our parents and grandparents. Nanny government is never what our Founding Fathers ever envisioned.

The American dream has always been to work hard, save your money, and you to can strive for excellence and be rewarded for your determination and effort. Who knew that in today’s America, according to Barack Obama and his followers, that your hard work and effort is not meant to benefit your family. In Obamunism your hard work, blood, sweat and tears is meant to pay for some one else’s gas and mortgage, not your own.

Welcome to the socialist world of entitlements where personal responsibility means nothing. Its about government forced charity and the buying of votes and an election.

One might ask the Obama supporter in the video and all that subscribe to Obumunism the following question. Why is it that Barack Obama cannot seem to personally help out his own family with his own wealth, yet Obama is perfectly comfortable taking, spending and sharing your wealth with others.

• If Obama could not take care of his illegal alien aunt living in Boston, MA in public housing or his brother in Kenya in a mud hut slum, why do you think that he will take care of you?

 OBAMA IS GOING TO PAY FOR MY GAS AND MORTGAGE

Another must see video … how many people actually believe that if Obama becomes President of the United States actually believe that she will not have to pay for gas anymore or have to pay a mortgage. The Obamamessiah will pay for it all with a wave a of a wand and the sprinkling of some fairy dust.

 Peggy Joseph … all my bills will be paid by the Obamamessiah and I will have no personal responsibility.

Barack Obama Audio Interview Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt the Coal Industry

More change you can believe in … Obama says he will bankrupt the coal industry.

To the voters in coal states like Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Indiana … did you hear what Barack Obama said about you to San Francisco? It wasn’t just that the people of Pennsylvania cling to their Bibles and guns, Obama also stated he would bankrupt the coal industry.

The following Obama audio is from January 2008:

I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.

 

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.

The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.

 

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.

It’s just that it will bankrupt them. (full transcript here)

As Newsbusters reminds us, imagine if John McCain had made such a comment that he wanted to bankrupt a major industry in the United States and just how fast that would make the front pages of newspapers across America.

WIZBANG also reminds us of Joe Biden’s past comments that there should be no coal plants in America.

Voters in coal states around the country need to know this. Barack Obama wants to essentially kill the coal industry, which is in line with Biden’s previous comment that there should be no coal plants in America. These are the coal states that would be affected if Obama is able to implement his Cap and Trade policy. It would also affect those companies right now that currently use coal as fuel. They would be hit so hard with fines that they would either have to invest in major capital changes to their plants to switch to a new fuel or go under.

UPDATE I: Gateway Pundit, EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO– Obama Promises San Francisco Audience He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry!!

UPDATE II: In Same Interview Obama Says He Will Cause Energy Prices To Skyrocket (Flopping Aces)

But what will this unions response be to Barack’s bankruptcy plan for the coal industry? Will they still bow at the alter of the one?

How could they not know what was in store for their industry? He is on record as saying he wants to change the behavior of the American people by raising the cost of fuel and power prices

UPDATE III: Sarah Palin Unleashes New Attack Against Obama On Coal

Ask Sarah Palin if Obama will bankrupt the coal industry … YOU BETCHA!!!

“He said that, sure, if the industry wants to build coal-fired power plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in a way that will bankrupt the coal industry, and he’s comfortable letting that happen,” Palin said. “And you got to listen to the tape.”

The audiotape Palin was referring to was recorded by the San Francisco Chronicle in a Jan. 17 interview.

“Why is the audiotape just now surfacing?” Palin asked, leading someone in the crowd to shout, “Liberal media!”

Newsbusters reports that CNN is spinning for Obama until the very end calling this old news. Really, old news? Wouldn’t one have to actually report the entire story including the full audio for it to be old? Another great update at Newsbusters where it was reported that the initial SF Chronicle interview did not include any mention of Obama’s willingness to bankrupt the coal industry. Nice cover up MSM. Yet another example of the propaganda MSM carrying the water for Obama.

NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer has found out that the San Francisco Chronicle story published on January 18 based upon this January 17 interview did not include any mention of Obama’s willingness to bankrupt the coal industry which you can hear on the audio. You can read the story here when you scroll down to the “In His Own Words” section. Way to cover up for The One, SF Chronicle! 

UPDATE IV: Coal official calls Obama comments ‘unbelievable’

CHARLESTON - At least one state coal industry leader said he was shocked by comments Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made earlier this year concerning his plan to aggressively charge polluters for carbon and greenhouse gas emissions.

UPDATE V: Ohio Coal Association Says Obama Remarks Make It Clear: Obama Ticket Not Supportive of Coal

“Regardless of the timing or method of the release of these remarks, the message from the Democratic candidate for President could not be clearer: the Obama-Biden ticket spells disaster for America’s coal industry and the tens of thousands of Americans who work in it.

“These undisputed, audio-taped remarks, which include comments from Senator Obama like ‘I haven’t been some coal booster’ and ‘if they want to build [coal plants], they can, but it will bankrupt them’ are extraordinarily misguided.
“It’s evident that this campaign has been pandering in states like Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and Pennsylvania to attempt to generate votes from coal supporters, while keeping his true agenda hidden from the state’s voters.