As if things weren’t bad enough, now this. The Democrats haven’t yet given up on their energy tax plan, even though the American people clearly don’t want it. They don’t seem to care what the American people think anymore. They believe they were elected to rule us, rather than represent. Even if they lose miserably in the November mid-term elections, they still may ram through their plan before a new Congress takes over in January.
The GOP Conference sounded the alarm on their blog.
White House climate czar Carol Browner recently floated the prospect of Congress passing climate change legislation—a national energy tax—during a lame-duck session sometime after November 2, 2010. Conventional wisdom suggests that newly-retired and unaccountable Democrats in the House and Senate would be more willing to vote for an unpopular climate bill after Election Day.
Right on cue, labor unions and well-heeled environmentalists are now stepping up lobbying efforts across the country to push for a lame-duck national energy tax bill. Moreover, the president of the Communications Workers of America union says this coalition is even willing to help change Senate rules if it would grease the skids for climate legislation becoming law. Big Labor clearly sees big time special interest payoff in such massive government in the energy industry. As Michael Langford, president of the Utility Workers Union of America, put it, “It’s not very often we get an opportunity to create an industry, and this is that time.”
So what exactly do Americans have to look forward to in a lame-duck national energy tax? According to the Heritage Foundation, a bill similar to the House-passed Waxman-Markey legislation would lead to:
It will lead to higher energy costs, fewer jobs, and more harm to an already sluggish economy. That’s what the Democrats want to do to you this fall. Are you going to stand for it?
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IMO: The Dems are dangerously childish.
They are willing to throw an election to get their way.
“It’s MY football so I get to make the rules!”
That’s the childish part………the dangerous part is they are willing to ruin our economy.
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The lame duck session after the November elections will be the most dangerous political Zombie in the history of the country. Every procedural roadblock needs to be used by conservatives, but I have my doubts about the minority’s leadership and motivations.
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That is exactly it – they think that an election means they RULE OVER US
rather than REPRESENTING us. Just like a high school football game.
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