Republicans who helped pass "cap and trade" benefitted from environmental donations

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Jun 28, 2009

Those are pretty small pickings for selling out your entire constituency.

Jun 28, 2009

Why is Chris Shays mentioned in this article (last paragraph) as if he were a member of Congress? Shays lost re-election last November.

Jun 28, 2009

"This support proved critical with 44 Democrats voting against the regulatory scheme." Don't kid yourself. The Democrats had the margin neccessary to pass this the whole way. If you watched the vote on Friday on CSPAN, The Democrats always had 10-12 more "NV"s (not voted yet) then Repubs while the vote Margin was about 7-11. So at any time if the 8 Repubs had voted against, 8 of those 44 Dems would have been forced to vote for the bill. (They were allowed to vote against for re-election purposed and because their vote wasn't needed to pass it.

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Jun 29, 2009

Maybe it would have passed in any case, but this gives the Democrats cover to claim bi-partisanship. Plus, it would have put the 8 Democrats who would have been forced to change their votes at risk in the next election. These 8 Republicans do not deserve to be reelected.

Jun 29, 2009

There is only one answer: Vote them out. We still have the ultimate control. If we keep reelecting the flotsam on the Hill, we have only ourselves to blame.

Jun 29, 2009

Like any adovcacy organization with the least bit of sense, environmental organizations tend to support candidates who seem to share their values and whose voting records and responses indicate that they will be environmentally responsible legislators. To the extent your article hints that these votes were bought by PAC contributions of a few thousand dollars, that is silly. Responsible legislators understood the huge threat of climate disruption and the need to invest in a clean energy economy. They voted responsibly on a crucial bill. I am a member of the Sierra Club board of directors. My views expressed here are my own.

Jun 29, 2009

All those reepublicans who voted on the passing the energy bill need to be defeated in their next election by someone who isn't getting paid off.

Jun 29, 2009

So they pass this in the House for such a small amount of money...leaving tax payers to end up spending more on everything! Research some of these environmental groups, tell me if you see any of them attacking the mass of pollution laying on the ground where illegal aliens cross, do they even go out and clean it up? NO, it is the ones that want the borders closed that clean it. There is just no money for them to clean up after illegals!

Jun 29, 2009

David Scott, How do you know that? The bill wasn't even finished when they voted on it. There were at lest three hundred pages added at the last second and those who asked to see the langague were told that there was not a copy available to review prior to the vote! You call this responsible? This shows Pelosi and Obama to be the liars that they are. Both claimed the most "transparent" and "ethical" administration and congress respectively and have governed over the exact opposite. This is a corrupt bill jammed through late on a Friday and right before a long break for congress expressly to avoid any meaningful analysis of what is in the bill. Whether you are for or against Climate Change legislation, we should all be outraged by these dispicable tactics employed by the Pelosi and Obama.

Jun 29, 2009

Just a thought, what if they could not see how the vote was going? Wouldn't that make our reps for accountable to us, rather than the deals they make with others?

Jun 29, 2009

Just a thought, what if they could not see how the vote was going? Wouldn't that make our reps for accountable to us, rather than the deals they make with others?

Jun 29, 2009

It's pretty amazing the pathetic amount of money it takes to buy a representative's vote. Gutter trash.

Jun 29, 2009

Well, we knew what they were; we just didn't know until today how much they charge.

Jun 29, 2009

David Scott - What the heck is climate disruption? That's a good one. First it was global warming, but ahh, no, that wasn't working. Then came climate change, but since the climate fluctuates, that doesn't seem valid. So now the leftists are trotting out CLIMATE DISRUPTION!?!? Does this mean the weather won't change? Eeegaads. To quote your favorite propagandists, Keth Olbermann, "Have you no shame sir? Have you no shame?"

Jun 30, 2009

Note that all of the Republicans who voted for the bill come from districts that voted for Obama. The Dems who voted against mostly come from districts that went for McCain. It takes a few million dollars to mount a congressional campaign today. People are not casting votes because of $5000 PAC contributions. I think you'd find all of the Republicans who voted yes have pro-environment records. I wish more Republican officials did.

Jun 30, 2009

This is what I called trash that would sell their mother for a ouarter, These are the kind of people who are in it for gain and not the good of their country,they should be tar and feather and given a ride out of Washington on a rail.

Jun 30, 2009

Whatever the excuse, be it strategy, stupidity etc...I plan to ask them all - Why do always want to take more money out of my back pocket and put more money in your back pockets? It is time to leave the decisions in my hands. Will let you know how they respond!

Jun 30, 2009

Stamp Act of 2009 = Cap & Tax

Jun 30, 2009

Dumb bill, dumb people, bad results in the end.

Jun 30, 2009

Dumb bill, dumb people, bad results in the end.

Jun 30, 2009

To David Scott: If you based your support on verified scientific reality rather than unsubstantiated, and obviously flawed climatological theories maybe you would get Republican support. If greenhouse gas heats the atmosphere, then why have our temperatures been dropping these past 11 years? And if green house gas will keep the temperatures high then why to we want to reduce them if the Earth is getting cooler? Maybe we don't need to reduce our greenhouse gas levels since temperatures are dropping. I imagine that the stupid anti-cattle- flatulence amendment that was passed by those Representatives of Diary states like Wisconsin will make them sorry that they did not read it first. This bill, more than ever, should serve to stimulate some resistance to passing unread bills, more than any other in the past.

Jun 30, 2009

To David Scott: If you based your support on verified scientific reality rather than unsubstantiated, and obviously flawed climatological theories maybe you would get Republican support. If greenhouse gas heats the atmosphere, then why have our temperatures been dropping these past 11 years? And if green house gas will keep the temperatures high then why to we want to reduce them if the Earth is getting cooler? Maybe we don't need to reduce our greenhouse gas levels since temperatures are dropping. I imagine that the stupid anti-cattle- flatulence amendment that was passed by those Representatives of Diary states like Wisconsin will make them sorry that they did not read it first. This bill, more than ever, should serve to stimulate some resistance to passing unread bills, more than any other in the past.

Jun 30, 2009

Hey David Scott, and all other like-minded Americans who deem yourselves critical thinkers - Before you force prosperity-killing measures onto the rest of us sensible Americans over this global warming stuff, please first explain away the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). You know, the historical fact that Viking colonies were growing grapes and other crops on the island of Greenland in the 11th and 12th centuries. Where were the coal-fired power plants and the hundreds of millions of cars pumping CO2 into the earth's atmosphere 800 years ago? How could the human race even exist today (at least according to you, Algore, James Hansen, et al...), in light of the fact that global temps during the MWP had to be several degrees hotter than even the worst-case catastrophic temp increase predicted by the IPCC's global warming computer models (garbage in - garbage out), upon which you base your beliefs? Funny how none of these pro man-made global warming scientists EVER mentions the MWP.

Jun 30, 2009

James, DW, et al, guys you are wasting your time attempting to reason with Dave Scott...can't be done. Liberalism: stupidity with a college education.

Jun 30, 2009

James, DW, et al, guys you are wasting your time attempting to reason with Dave Scott...can't be done. Liberalism: stupidity with a college education.

Jun 30, 2009

Hey David Scott, and all other like-minded Americans who deem yourselves critical thinkers - Before you force prosperity-killing measures onto the rest of us sensible Americans over this global warming stuff, please first explain away the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). You know, that historical fact that Viking colonies were growing grapes and other crops on the island of Greenland in the 11th and 12th centuries. Where were the coal-fired power plants and the hundreds of millions of cars pumping CO2 into the earth's atmosphere 800 years ago? How could the human race even exist today (at least according to you, Algore, James Hansen, et al...), in light of the fact that global temps during the MWP had to be several degrees hotter than even the worst-case catastrophic temp increase predicted by the IPCC's global warming computer models (garbage in - garbage out), upon which you base your beliefs? Funny how none of the pro man-made global warming scientists EVER mentions the MWP.

Jun 30, 2009

Who are the senators who benefitted from the largess of the conservation groups so we can pelt them with emails?

Jun 30, 2009

Are these the ones we were taught to respect when we were kids? If we clean house in 2010 will it just be more of same? If the voters don't take more interest in who runs the Country and less about the nonsense on TV like Michael Jackson, AD Nauseam, that's exactly what we will get; MORE OF SAME!

Jun 30, 2009

Hey Scott: You and all your Ilk who daily drink the Al Gore Global Warming Religion(or whatever you decide to call it today) need to remember that Al Gore FLUNKED our of the Vanderbilt Seminary...so why should anyone believe anything Gore believes. This PHONY Global Warming is a bigger ponzi scheme than Madoff ever perpetrated on his clients. This is nothing more than the largest TAX hike in our history. It is being perpetrated on us by phony organizations like the one that Mr. Scott leads. They see OUR hard earned $ as a piggy bank for them to propogate every phony theory they have come to believe. FACTS are a stubborn thing; something they know NOTHING about. Congressman Riechert is serving his LAST term in Congress. There are more of us than there are of you Mr. Scott. Happy Birthday everybody. We better enjoy our Nation while we can because the Chicago Mafia is quickly turning us into a third world country. God bless our magnificent warriors and their families. God Bless

Jun 30, 2009

Who do the folks on the hill think the,re fooling . I,ve always thought global warming was liberal code for tax them to death. I would suggest checking historical and religious referances there has always been periods of so called global warming as well as signs the ozone level has fluctuated (big hole little hole)religious referance say in the end time there will be weather changes and the like .

Jun 30, 2009

Anybody hear how well Algorythm is doing on his joint Briish investments in enviromental areas. Was it $868 mil or so, 30% rtn wud be about $3mil/mo poor little rich kid, post Occidental Oil if I recall. Even went out of country for his co-conspirators. Must love our country (ha, I don't think so)

Jul 1, 2009

You end the above summary about Republicans who beneffited from the environmentalist with the thought that "others remain PLIABLE." Should n ot that final word actually be "buyable"?

Jul 1, 2009

You end the above summary about Republicans who beneffited from the environmentalist with the thought that "others remain PLIABLE." Should n ot that final word actually be "buyable"?

Jul 1, 2009

Now onto healthcare bill being pushed through house. Now is the time for all to read the bill.

Jul 1, 2009

That's right David Scott,your org. and ALL the crazy left-wing orgs. like yours, and the Congress of the U.S.A.,passed this bill with "...the least bit of sense..."

Jul 1, 2009

That's right David Scott,your org. and ALL the crazy left-wing orgs. like yours, and the Congress of the U.S.A.,passed this bill with "...the least bit of sense..."

Jul 2, 2009

Uh, Waxman-Markey was supported by a coalition "crazy left wing orgs" that included leading faith and religious organizations, union members, and businesses including American Electric Power. As for the comments about global warming, our own National Academy of Sciences issued an urgent call for governments to reduce carbon emissions. The NAS is neither a "crazy left wing org" or a political organization in any sense. The deniers and hucksters don't talk about the NAS much. I can imagine why.

Jul 2, 2009

I mostly hold the 8 Republicans that voted Yes responsible. We need to fund Primary opposition to these weak willed RINOs. Spankthe8.blogspot.com

Jul 4, 2009

I think you are all missing the point here... How could they pass such a pork bill if they did NOT had time to read the 1300 pages of pork in it - specailly the Democrats... pork, pork and more pork!

Jul 7, 2009

Not one person who voted on this bill should be reelected. They are so stupid. Obama is throwing them under the bus and they don't know it. Why do you think that he is in such a hurry to get all this passed before 2010, because he knows that Americans will eventually wake up. A lot of these blind followers will lose in 2010. Those Republicans and Democrats who passed this without reading it, will be standing in the unemployment line come the next election. We need to go to our state government. Our states need to reject the cap and trade and the health care reform. If each state stood up to them, we have the numbers and we can defeat this disaster. Contact your states representatives.

Jul 31, 2009

Americans betrayed for 30 pieces of silver.
Remember these traitors names when you vote in 2010.

Sep 18, 2009

Wake up America! We're headed for another civil war over who's stupid and who isn't. Any voting or signing any document should be read first. Duh. Global warming has not been proved as fact either. We're all going to be sorry (stupid folks included) when all us of don't have the funds to live on anymore. If your broke who wins? For what, one hundredth of a degree difference? UNESCO is responsible for the dumbing down of Americans. Tell your friends to start reading and get ready for change. And pray.

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