Sen. Barbara Boxer: Power Grab & Rules Breaking: Forces Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill thru Committee without 1 Republican Present, Will Cost Americans Billions (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 6, 2009
Abrasive Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) broke Senate rules to push through cap-and-trade, not one Republican was present for vote; she's treading on thin ice | AP Photo/Ron Edmonds
Figures that this rule-breaking garbage is yet another one of Barbara Boxer’s moments of senatorial shame. Rules are meant to be followed by our Senate leaders, Babs, including you… otherwise, why even have the bloody things?
From Motor City Times, Barbra Boxer Pushes Global Warming Tax Bill Out Of Senate Committee Without A Single Republican Vote:
Democrats continue an all out assault on the American people.
While the American people are focusing on trying to stop the push for socialized medicine, Democrats push forward on the effort to bring an economy killing ‘global warming’ tax to the senate floor in an unprecedented fashion.
FOX: Sen. Barbara Boxer Using Nuclear Option to Push Climate Bill Through Committee, Not One Republican Present | November 5, 2009
Repeat after me: Global warming is a hoax. Cap and trade is a scam.
I’ve written frequently about Sen. Barbara “Don’t Call Me Ma’am” Boxer from California… about her abrasiveness, her bloated ego, her hunger for power, her lack of respect to others. Most of all, her nastiness.
Which begs the question: Are Babs and Nancy Pelosi evil twins who were separated at birth?
Condoleezza Rice was frequently attacked by Sen. Barbara 'Don't Call Me Ma'am' Boxer
Back in 2007, Sen. Boxer attacked Condoleezza Rice during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee for not having had children, suggesting that because of not being a mother, Sec. of State Rice was a warmonger, that she had no respected voice or valid position in American war efforts since Rice had nothing to “lose” in the Iraqi attacks.
Really, this snarling female dog got away with this vile, insulting, illogical attack on Rice. It wasn’t the first time, either.
There was no outcry against Boxer for her unbecoming senatorial behavior toward Rice. The fringe media, even in 2007, often looked the other way if a Democrat behaved badly. No story here, move along… And they have looked away often in the case of Boxer.
Boxer freely attacked Rice during the Bush years. So it isn’t just black Chamber of Commerce heads, or white military men, or nicely dressed conservatives at tea parties, or anyone who has wondered why Obama received his unearned Nobel Peace Prize who are the recipients of her unprofessional wrath and rancor.
No, the list of Boxer’s lashings out like a snippy prom queen is lengthy.
Remind me that based on her twisted, idiot logic towards Condi Rice, Sen. Boxer should be slammed and chastised for not having any respected input if she ever has anything to do with A) minority race issues, B) prostate cancer legislation, C) gay rights, D) American poverty reform, E) Native American government-run health care, or F) intelligence enhancement studies.
From Publius’ Forum, Sec. Rice Attacked by Sen. Boxer Over Childlessness:
Is it not outrageous that Senator Barbara Boxer (Dem, Cal) verbally attacked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for not having children as Rice appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday to discuss the Administrations position on Bush’s Iraq military “surge” plans? Is this an acceptable criticism of a political official? Is the fact that an official might not have children reason to doubt their capacity for policy making or ability to advise an administration?
Is this the Democrat’s new era of niceness, their less rancorous way of governing?
…As you can see, only the New York Post seemed too interested in the outrageous Boxer. The rest of our “News” sources barely mentioned it and it seems that no original writing was spent on the issue with every major news source just aping the AP’s two subdued accounts.
As contrasted with the above AP reports, here is how the Post started off their report on the exchange:
WASHINGTON – Condoleezza Rice came under a shocking Democratic attack yesterday – as a childless woman who can’t understand the sacrifices made by families of U.S. troops in Iraq. In a bitter personal assault on the secretary of state during her appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, anti-war Sen. Barbara Boxer fumed that Rice didn’t comprehend the “price” of the war.
Only the Post, so far, seems willing to highlight Boxer’s unsuitable comportment as a Senator.
…[i]t is amazing how Boxer has basically gotten a pass by the MSM for her boorish, uncivilized, and completely illogical attack on Secretary Rice’s childlessness.
This must be just another example of how the Democrats are going to be more bi-partisan and less rancorous and how the MSM is going to help them achieve that… or, rather, how they aren’t and how the MSM is going to help cover it up for them?
Sadly, the American public is ill served by the MSM, once again.
Additional reading:
Gateway Pundit: Republican Inhofe to Crazy Boxer: We Won, You Lost, Now Get a Life (Video) and SEN. BOXER BREAKS SENATE RULES… Passes Cap-&-Tax Out of Committee Without Single GOP Member in Attendance and Dem’s Cap & Trade Bill Is $3.6 Trillion Gas Tax Too and “Racial” Senator Boxer Says Tea Party Protesters Too Well Dressed to Be Authentic and DESPITE HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE– Dem Reps Booed at Obamacare Rally and Save Earth – Eat Your Pet
Ben Shapiro, Big Hollywood: NBC’s ObamaVision: GE Uses Network To Push Obama’s Green Agenda — And Rakes In the Dough
GayPatriot: Dems want to drop Boxer-Kerry; let’s hope CA just drops Boxer and Barbara Boxer: Failed Senator and Barbara Boxer Ma’amapalooza and The more people know about Ma’am Boxer, the less likely she’ll keep her seat
JunkScience: Feature: Checking their homework and Are we really sure the world is too warm?
Patrick Courrielche, Big Hollywood: NBC’s ObamaVision: Will Peacock’s News Division Expose the Alarmism?
Michelle Malkin: The global warming scandal of the century and Fighting “climate change”…with free condoms and All by her lonesome: Sen. Boxer and the empty chairs and EPA lawyers: Cap-and-trade bill is “fatally flawed”
Politico: Climate bill passes without GOP
Chuck DeVore, Big Hollywood: Barbara Boxer: A Bad Actor
Bret Jacobson, Big Government: Kerry and Boxer’s Wheel of Misfortune
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Racist Barbara Boxer compares Michael Steele to the Taliban!
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Pelosi Calls Protesters “Astro-turf” & Sen. Barbara “Don’t Call Me Ma’am” Boxer Says ObamaCare Town Hall Protesters Are “Too Well-Dressed” So Must Be Fake (video) and DNC Warning: If You Joke about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, You’re a Terrorist… Oops, Unless You’re a Democrat and Harry Alford to John Ziegler: “Sen. Barbara Boxer Is a Racist” (video)
Another Black Conservative: DNC Official Says GOP Siding With Terrorist For Stating The Obvious
Wonkette: Oh Good Gravy, Now Barbara Boxer Is Saying The Taliban Thing
Nice Deb: Video: Glenn Beck Interviews Lord Christopher Monckton On World Government and Bombshell: Obama Poised To Cede Sovereignty According To British Lord
Cadillac Tight: Even more meaningful dialog from the Democratic Party
Founding Bloggers: Barbara Boxer Forgot About Crawford, Texas
Snowed In: Snowed In’s Theory: New Dishonoree
The Powers That Be: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Pay Off the Enemy
The B.S. Report: Barbara Boxer Spreading Democratic Talking Points Propaganda About Protesters Against Obamacare
Nice Deb: Reason TV: Obama’s Other Awards
Moonbat Patrol: Price Paid For The Nobel Prize, The Denouncing Of The United States.
Temple of Mut: TEA PARTY SHOCKER! Babs Boxer Says We Dress too Well to be Real! and CA GOP Meets SD Tea Party Maven and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: Californians Talk to Boxer’s SD Rep.
The Barton Bulletin: Could There Be A Peasant Uprising Afoot?
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Plants
Stop The ACLU: Fearmongering Democrats Can’t Accept American Don’t Want Their Health Care Crap Sandwich
Right Voices: VIDEO: Sen. Boxer: ‘Well-dressed’ protesters at Town Halls are out to ‘hurt our president’…
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Left wing loons have moved on from Tea Baggers to Mobs “attacking our healthcare town halls with manufactured anger – oh and protestors are “too well dressed” according to racist Barbara Boxer
Seth Swirsky, Big Hollywood: It’s No Wonder People Are Angry!
Pew Research Center: Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming
P.J. Gladnick, NewsBusters: Polar Bear Testimony Suppressed Due to ‘Inconvenient’ Truths
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I’m glad to see that Americans are paying attention to this ‘front’ of the Liberal Democrats assault on our freedom and economy.
Some days it feels like the Democrats are employing the “Whack-A-Mole” tactic. First pops up cap tax and we nail that one down and “pop” up comes socialized medicine…then “pop”…
great post, and thanks for the link
Well, whatever about Barbara Boxer, Cap and Trade is completely wrong
- whether one is for or against emission control
The issues are emission reduction and future energy supply.
Given the uncertainty of the effects of emission reduction on global temperature – and given the expense of emission reduction – the key is
to engage in activites which
1. Are valuable in themselves.
2. Meet emission reduction targets with minimal business disruption and expense.
Sufficient first phase 2020/2030 emission reduction, for 2020 typically quoted at 15-20% reduction, is achieved by acting on electricity generation (coal, gas) and transport (mainly automobiles) alone,
since these 2 sectors account for nearly 80% of CO2 emissions.
This can be done with emission tax (for cars, allowing free choice) and emission limits for CO2 (for electricity generation), without any emission trading.
The focus on electricity and transport gives several advantages:
1. Local environmental benefit from less pollution of sulphur and all else that’s in the emissions, regardless of the less certain or immediate global benefit from CO2 reduction.
2. Electricity supply alternatives which together with improved grid distribution gives better competition and keeps down electricity bills for consumers.
3. Transport alternatives (using electricity, hydrogen and other energy sources), which give variety of choice and competition advantages for consumers, additionally reducing the dependency on oil imports.
4. No trade problems: Unlike Cap and Trade, which involves cement, steel and other industries having to face imports from unregulated countries, the here suggested electricity and transport changes are not just more limited, but also largely local.
In 2020 (and again 2030), from then available evidence, either
1. There is increasing consensus that reduction attempts have no value: In that case little has been lost, since the described changes in electricity and transport industry carry their own benefit, or
2. Consensus remains that CO2 emission reduction should continue, in which case America is on track,
and may continue with more specific emission reduction efforts towards 2050 that extend electricity and transport measures,
and can involve other industries if necessary.
Funding and Impact
Equity and long term loan finance can be used: Long term industrial loans from financial institutions, particularly if federal/state guaranteed, give low yearly interest repayments and lessen the effect on electricity bills or transport cost.
The impact on the businesses is further lessened by the stability and predictability surrounding the funding.
Since only electricity and transport are involved, other business continues as usual and consumers and society in general are spared expense and disruption.
This is even more obvious from having no energy efficiency regulation either.
Compare with
today’s all-encompassing Cap and Trade (emission trading) suggestions,
with unpredictability, expense, and needless disruption from normal business practice on one hand, or unnecessary profiteering from free allowance handouts with little actual emission reduction on the other hand, together with extensive energy efficiency regulation on what
people can or can’t buy and use.
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Emission Policy Alternatives
http://ceolas.net/#cce1x
Introduction: The need – or not – to deal with emissions
The Overall Picture
Emission sources, land and ocean cycles, agriculture and deforestation
1. Direct Industrial Emission Regulation
Mandated reduction of CO2, monitored like other emission substances
2. Carbon Taxation
Fuel Tax — Emission Tax
3. Emission Trading (Cap and Trade)
Basic Idea — Offsets — Tree Planting — Manufacture Shift — Fair Trade — Surreal Market — Allowances: Auctions + Hand-Outs — Allowance Trading — Companies: Business Stability + Cost — In Conclusion
4. Contracted CO2 Reduction
Private companies compete for contracts to lower CO2 emissions.
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