Climate Change Shenanigans: Speed Reader & Waxman’s Ignorance of Details in Waxman-Markey Cap & Trade Eco-Tax Bill (videos)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 22, 2009
By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone
The shenanigans that Congress will go through to ram a multi-trillion-dollar bill through before the Memorial Day holiday weekend… glad the priorities are in order. Trillions (again) of taxpayers’ dollars are now chump change, right? Utter audacity.
Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-California) headlining courses of action this week:
Hire a speed reader to read the 900-plus-page national eco-tax bill aloud at the climate change hearing; when queried about a detail in the eco-tax bill, plead ignorance (with a touch of irritation in your voice) and declare that you don’t know details, you rely on your hand-picked, global-warming-manic, on-the-dole scientists for information.
Being clueless is not a rational defense if YOUR OWN NAME is part of the title of the climate change bill that threatens to raise the cost of energy to every American by thousands of dollars. You earn an F, Mr. Waxman.
And that speed reader idea of yours, Mr. Waxman… what’s with this misguided joke? Or is this young man actually on the government payroll now? To READ? For REAL? Gimme a break.
What’s next from Waxman… an exotic fire eater from Europe to metaphorically entertain our elected leaders, demonstrating how Earth will burn to a crispy cinder if his “save the climate” bill (which he’s clueless about) isn’t passed? Not much of a surprise that Waxman, the sham of a primary author of the eco-tax bill, is a representative of the state of California, where cap and trade has already been implemented and has been a gigantic job killer. Sorry about that, California.
Important reading: MasterResource: Cap-and-Trade: The Temple of Enron (James Hansen makes an important political point)
Speed Reader Takes Center Stage At Climate Change Hearing
Rep. Waxman: “I don’t know the details. I rely on the scientists.”
Worthwhile reading:
Wall Street Journal: Need for Speed (Read) to Pass Climate Bill
Washington Monthly: GO, SPEED READER, GO
Famous DC: Capitol Hill Circus: Democrats Hire Speed Reader. Bearded Lady Booked Till June.
All American Blogger: US government’s climate con-job | Obama administration “report” on climate change is deceitful, scare-mongering, bogus science
Wired, Danger Room, What’s Next in National Security: Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change (Updated)
Hot Air: Cap and trade: Where’s the benefit? and Carbon trading markets collapse
Green Hell Blog: Skeptics beating Al Gore: Dem advisors say drop global warming as lead message
Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post: The Sureness of Global Warming Skeptics
Prison Planet: IPCC Scientists Caught Producing False Data To Push Global Warming
Telegraph.co.uk: The world has never seen such freezing heat
Vets On The Watch: How Many Debunkings Of Global Warming Are Needed
John Boehner: Democrats Vote for $5 Gas, 15 Percent Unemployment, and Shipping Jobs to China & India – All to Protect Their National Energy Tax
American Thinker: Cap and Fade
Michelle Malkin: Waxman clueless about his cap & trade bill: “You’re asking me?!”
The ConservativeXpress: Democrats Hire Speed Reader For Cap and Trade Bill (Video) and Cap and Trade Already Killing California Jobs; EU Carbon Markets Collapsing
Neil Stevens, RedState: Science Marches On, Right Past Al Gore
The Foundry, The Heritage Foundation: Carbon Capping Already Killing California Jobs
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Government’s Grand Con Game: Waxman-Markey Energy Tax Bill Benefits Obama’s Tax Revenue Coffers & Nothing Else
Pam Meister, Big Hollywood: Global Warming Activist Laurie David Fined for Wetlands Violations—Oh, Never Mind
MasterResource: Climate Impacts of Waxman-Markey (the IPCC-based arithmetic of no gain)
Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters: Gallup Poll Editor: Al Gore Is Losing Global Warming Debate
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Eco-hypocrite of the week
The Heritage Foundation: Impact of CO2 Restrictions on Employment and Income: Green Jobs or Gone Jobs?
Founding Bloggers: Support The Cap And Trade Disclosure Act
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My God…. wouldn’t it be great if we could just FIRE ALL OF THEM AND START OVER ?
This is an insult to the intelligence of Americans. We have a right to know what is in this bill. We already know it will be devastating to all of us. I am sick of these loons passing bills unread. Waxman knows that no one will understand a word this guy is saying. The rush to pass it is to keep us from knowing anything about it. Despicable. America should be finished by the end of summer.
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