To echo your method of argumentation, MY senator is John McCain, a POW and war hero. He has called Obama’s cap and trade bill a grave mistake that will hurt Americans. This week, he said in an interview, “In its present form, which is cap-and-tax. … It’s really terrible, because I believe that climate change is real, I believe it is something that we need to address, and I’m sure that a lot of Americans do, but to do so with a bill like this? … What [the Obama administration is] doing is using cap-and-trade…to raise billions of dollars so they can spend money on Cash for Clunkers, you know, buying General Motors and Banks and the world’s largest insurance company. … So it started on the wrong path and now it’s just turned into, you know, it’s laws and sausages at its worst in my view.”

So, “your guy” caught a killer and “my guy” is an honored war hero and POW – that’s a stalemate. I’m not in McCain’s camp for global warming, but just using him as an example of the fallacious argumention you employed.

You’ve omitted that there are thousands of scientists who dispute the existence of global warming. And there’s that pesky problem with the EPA suppressing information from a report that derailed or criticized the faulty data used to try to prove the existence of global warming. An investigation is forthcoming on that suppression.

How can Reichert confidently assess a dollar amount on the impact a bill will have on our GDP and the financial impact on all Americans’ energy use when 300 pages of it was added at the last minute on Friday and has not been thoroughly reviewed by ANYONE in the US House, including the Energy Czar, and 1200 pages of it has not been made available for more than a week?

It’s weird that you asked me or readers if WE had captured a killer like Reichert had. What kind of a question is that? Total non sequitur, as is most of your post. It’s illogical to ask when assessing the impact of a cap-and-tax energy bill. Not really sure what you were trying to prove with that wacky rhetoric. And being the subject of a proposed TV show about catching a killer is totally irrelevant to this topic.

You said Reichert said it “would cost around $.48 per day and that we would have better national security…” Impossible. Cap and trade is all about mandates, increased rules, and penalties to grab taxpayers’ dollars under the guise of protecting the planet from humans. I’m clueless how this has anything to with national security. And this $0.48 he cites, is it per person, or per family, or per household, or per business for gasoline, electricity, coal use, natural gas use? In a 24-hour day, that would be just 2 pennies more per hour. Did he conveniently forget about how this bill will increase the cost of EVERYTHING? After reading through a small bit of the bill, 2 pennies a day is utter poppycock. One new law in the energy bill is that homeowners must fulfill a slew of requirements and spend potentially thousands of dollars on “green improvements” on their homes before they can LEGALLY sell them, and homes must be inspected first by a new government branch (which I’ll call the Housing Nazi Czar, for lack of the real term) before they are GIVEN PERMISSION TO SELL THEIR HOMES. Is this Cuba or Russia? George Orwell nailed it in 1984 about Big Brother watching…

Reichert said he was right and Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, and Wall Street Journal are wrong? That is exceedingly arrogant, I’m afraid. I read the comments left by people who visited the website you provided me. Every one of the comments posted were highly non-supportive of his interview, and decried him for his naivete on the “big picture” financial impact of the Waxman-Markey bill. There was also mention about how he stumbled on ANWR, and one commenter said he flat-out lied. I didn’t listen to the interview… after reading the comments, I think I have a good idea as to what he babbled about.

Since Reichert said HE was right and Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, and WSJ are wrong, he would likely say that he knows more on this topic than does Steven Milloy, respected founder of JunkScience.com, who has scientifically debunked global warming as a hoax. Milloy holds a B.A. in Natural Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Health Sciences in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore, and a Master of Laws from the Georgetown University Law Center. He has also authored more than 500 articles or columns, many of which expose global warming as a hoax or science using selective or faulty data. How many science or economic degrees does Reichert hold? How much formal education on the subject, outside of politics, does Reichert actually have?

Reichert would also have to say that Dr. Bruce West, a distinguished researcher with the Army Research Office who has done extensive studies on the sun impacting our climate more than man-made conditions, is also wrong.

Tell me again why catching a killer makes Reichert a global warming energy taxation bill expert? And how did he determine that all these other respected resources and science experts are wrong, but he is right? With all due respect, Reichert is a Republican turncoat, and I have respect for him as a former law enforcer, but not as a member of Congress who sold America up the river by voting for this money-grab “tax the hell out of Americans” bogus energy bill.

And, he caught the Green River Killer.

Did you catch the Green River Killer?

No, no you didn’t.

You can hear his interview here.

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=194&sid=184941

Dave Reichert SPEAKS: says Cap and Trade will be good for America

He argued that the expense would not be what the Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, and Wall Street Journal were predicting. He argued that it would cost around $.48 per day and that we would have better national security, more nuclear, coal and refining capabilities, and a cleaner environment with the bill. He argued that the conservative arguments against were mistaken, and that Washington specifically would be better off even though the bill was imperfect.

And, he caught the Green River Killer.

Yeah, it took him a couple of decades, but better late than never.

I hear Fox was thinking about making the Series 24 about Reichert. But instead of showing 24 hours in a day they would have to make each episode a year.

This has got to be stopped ASAP, and sadly we have to wait until 2010.

The cap and trade bill will kill the coal industry.
Those of us who depend on coal to generate our power are going to see our energy bills double.
Obama knows this and doesn’t care.
Jimmy Carter said buy sweaters, remember that?
Obama is Carter on speed !!!!!

Call your senator and tell them to vote NO on cap and trade.
It’s all too much, too fast.

They are succeeding in overwhelming the American People with limited media coverage and constant sound bytes of Obama TELLING US WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO.

The idiots that voted for him elected a dictator, and by damn, that’s what he wants to be,….IF WE LET HIM !!!!

Sorry about the rant but we, the red blooded Americans out here have 18 months to rectify this, and I have every confidence that we will unless the voters are still entranced by american idol, dancing with the stars, or there ilk.
Nothing wrong with those shows, but, knowledge is power.

In 2010, we need enlightened voters to reverse this assault on our country.
Otherwise….we’re screwed.

This is the biggest scam and single tax bill ever to be forced on Americans.

We must kill this horrible bill… the Senate is our only hope. Call, fax, or email your senators TODAY.

http://animal-farm.us/change/more-on-crap-trade-491