What Was Voted On By The House Today

Obama was voted in to fix the economy. Instead, he is warring against it. He has done nothing to fix the original causes of our economic problems. Instead, in the midst of the deepest recession our economy has faced since the Great Depression, Obama and Speaker Pelosi have skirted the democratic process to force through possibly the most ill conceived attack on our economy in the history of our nation.



What the vote on Cap and Trade today actually was:

- A vote to enact perhaps the largest and most regressive tax in our nations history. It will hit hardest on our nation's poor and lower middle class.

- A rushed bill that Pelosi pushed through in a way that cynically circumvented our democratic process.

- A bill that not a single representative read cover to cover. Update: See this from the Strata-sphere discussing John Boehner's identification of some of the last minute changes put into this massive leftist power grab.

- A vote to creates a massive new bureaucracy.



- A vote to create a massive windfall for rent seekers such as Al Gore and his ilk who will grow fabulously wealth off this legislation while producing nothing of value.

- A vote to vastly expand the reach of federal government into every aspect of our economy and private lives.

- A vote to drive jobs overseas.

- A vote that will harm our infrastructure.

- A vote that will drive the cost of virtually every good and service in America skyward.

- A bill that will bring to a halt the building of new fossil fuel plants that our country requires to meet growing energy needs and to replace aging plants.

- A vote for a bill that requires tarrifs on countries that do not impose carbon regulation, thus making a trade war all but inevitable. Consider this the Obama/Pelosi version of the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Tarrif that greatly exacerbated the Depression.

- A vote for a bill that punishes traditional sources of energy at a point in time when not a single form of alternative energy has been proven cost effective or workable at scale.

- A vote that virtually insures that we will become ever more vulnerable to a true energy crisis that is all but inevitable.

- A vote for a bill based on highly politicized science falsely portrayed as settled.

- A vote to control carbon even as the last seven years have proven the falsity of the proposition that global temperatures rise with the increase of carbon.

- A vote to do all of this just as we are in the middle of the worst downturn since the Great Depression. Indeed, all major economic indicators are actually worse today than they were at the same point in time after the start of the Great Depression.

And For What:



This piece of economic sepuku passed the House 219 to 212. Eight Republicans voted for this abortion. They are:

Mary Bono, 45th Dist, Calif.
Michael Castle, Del.
Mark Kirk, 10th Dist, Ill.
Leonard Lance, 7th Dist, NJ
Frank LoBiondo, 2nd Dist., NJ
John McHugh, 23rd Dist, NY
David Reichert, 8th Dist., Wash.
Christopher Smith, 4th Dist., NJ

They deserve to be drummed out of the Republican Party.

Update: Michelle Malkin provides a "Wanted" poster for the eight individuals and wonders what they could have been promised in terms of earmarks to get their vote. R.S. McCain says something entirely appropriate - until these eight are gone, "not one red cent" to the N.R.C.C.

Update: EU Referendum notes the vote as a sign that "insanity rules" on this side of the pond as well as their own.

This is a dark day indeed. I am almost tempted to say that the Republicans should cease all opposition to this bill. Letting it into law will do more to spell the death knell for the far left than a thousand floor speeches will do.

Prior Posts:

25 June 09: What Was Voted On By The House Today
22 June 09: Making Pravda Blush
18 June 09: Depression (& Depressing) News
11 June 09: The Looming Crisis In Energy Costs
9 June 2009: Fiddling While Rome Freezes . . . And Crops Fail
8 June 2009: Of Villians, The Economy & On-Rushing Trains
3 June 2009: Road To Ruin
28 May 2009: A Bit Of Honest From Speaker Pelosi
22 May 2009: Beware The Climate Change Industrial Complex
16 May 2009: Cap, Trade & Theft
14 May 2009: Heading Towards A Self-Inflicted Depression
13 May 2009: EPA's Latest On CO2 - Bizarre, But Hardly Unwelcome
13 May 2009: Internal Dissent On Regulation Of Carbon Dioxide
12 May 2009: Cap & Trade - Back To The Future
29 April 2009: More Green Blasphemy
25 April 2009: Our Drive To A Green Nirvana
19 April 2009: Throwing Green Fuel On An Economic Fire