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Halloween Special: Creatures That Won’t Die Part One – Cap And Trade.

by Flyovercountry ( 233 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Energy, Republican Party at October 16th, 2013 - 8:00 am

Do you remember Cap and Trade’s unceremonious defeat in the Senate during the summer and fall of 2010? That was the same time that Obamacare was also hogging up center stage in this malevolent fundamental changing of our nation. One piece of crap legislative effort failed and the other succeeded. Just to refresh you memory, and because I like highlighting pathological liars, here’s Joe Manchin (D) Liarville, during his campaign to become a U.S. Senator representing the State of West Virginia, promising to put an end to both, while also pledging to defend the Second Amendment and stop run away government spending. (I do so love that special breed of Democrat who promises to be fiscally responsible. They never are, once elected, and worse yet, they are never held to account. Manchin for instance has voted in lock step with his party every step of the way, for every spending increase, to remove America’s Second Amendment Rights, to keep Obamacare and keep it funded, and has done nothing to stop this President’s Executive Fiat strategy which usurped the authority of the Legislative Branch in order to inflict Cap and Trade on us anyhow.)

As you may have guessed, our first Halloween Zombie this year is the Cap and Trade. This honor has been bestowed due to the undead way in which this economy killing idea was able to be implemented despite being killed by the Senate during the early fall of 2010. So, here we sit, Nine painful months into the second term of the Zero, and everything that many of us were screaming would be the consequences for electing this man child to be our President has indeed been proven correct. As Americans continue to act surprised, failing to connect Barack Obama to the consequences of his agenda, even though the man himself told us what he would be up to, I hope the phrase, “elections have consequences,” remains indelibly ingrained in the collective minds of the apathetic. Don’t take my word for it Obama bots, listen to the man himself tell you, way back in the ancient date of July, 2008.

Believe it or not my friends, just like in every wretched Zombie movie ever inflicted upon a near comatose audience, an unlikely hero has emerged to fight in one final scene with the Zombie army. That unlikely hero, will be played by the Supreme Court, who in the spring session of 2014, will listen to the arguments consolidated from several cases in which the EPA has been accused of reaching far beyond their mandate.

From the Hotair dot com article:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would consider challenges to Environmental Protect Agency limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, throwing the Obama administration’s landmark rules into a state of uncertainty. …

A three-judge panel in June 2012 upheld the agency’s finding that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide endangered public health and were likely responsible for global warming. The appeals court further upheld EPA emissions limits for new vehicles and refused to entertain the challengers’ efforts to stop the agency from phasing in emissions regulations on industrial facilities like power plants.

The Supreme Court will review part of that ruling. The justices said in a short written order that they will consider the EPA’s decision to impose greenhouse-gas permitting requirements on power plants and other stationary sources.

So, in a nut shell, when Cap and Trade lost in the Senate, or President signed an order which told the EPA to start holding America’s Power Plants up to the same emission standards as cars. You paid for it of course in the form of spiking electricity rates, which Barack Obama told you to blame on Republicans. The more stupid among you obliged him in this, and are predisposed to place such blame anyhow. Most of you probably shrugged your shoulders and simply blamed those fat cat energy company executives. Barack Obama of course, he escaped the perception of having any connection to this consequence of his policies what so ever. He after all is the first President to not be ultimately responsible for anything he does or says.

Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.

Climate Bill to take advantage of Gulf Oil Spill

by Phantom Ace ( 38 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Tranzis at May 12th, 2010 - 8:00 am

The tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is being taken advantage of by the Progressives. Barack Hussein Obama’s administration is already freezing more offshore oil exploration/drilling. Now Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and John Kerry (D-MA) are using this accident as a pretext for their climate bill. Progressive Republican Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has bailed but this is not stopping them from proceeding with this travesty.

Kerry and Lieberman’s efforts took a major hit when their Republican co-architect, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, walked away from the bill shortly before its scheduled rollout last month.

Since then, partisan polarization has intensified and the politics of energy were muddled further by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Though Kerry and Lieberman added new curbs on drilling — including allowing states to block their neighbors’ plans to drill offshore — the legislation does not ban new drilling altogether.

Still, Kerry and Lieberman say they’ve lined up wide support from utilities, oil companies and other business leaders they’ve courted for months. They hope that backing will lead to support from moderate Democrats and crossover Republicans.

Read it all: Senate’s delayed climate change-energy bill set for unveiling — and uncertainty

Rahm Emanuel said never let a crisis go to waste.

Obama to propose Offshore Drilling

by Phantom Ace ( 95 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Climate, Elections 2010, Progressives at March 31st, 2010 - 8:30 am

Barack Hussein Obama finally makes a decision I agree with. He is proposing opening up areas of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to offshore drilling. Before we celebrate and dance in the streets, remember that the Bush Administration proposed the same thing and it went nowhere. This most likely is a trick on Obama’s part to get Republicans to support his Neo-Feudalistic Cap-N-Trade scam.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.

The proposal — a compromise that will please oil companies and domestic drilling advocates but anger some residents of affected states and many environmental organizations — would end a longstanding moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida, covering 167 million acres of ocean.

Read the rest: Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time

Make no mistake about this, although it’s a great idea it’s really a trick. Political eunuch, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), is working with Marxist radical, NY Senator Charles Shumer on a Cap-N-Trade Bill. This proposal is a fig leaf so Graham can get some quisling Republican support behind the energy bill. That is the real reason behind this proposal.

The American people will not be fooled by this move on the part of Barack Hussein Obama. He is a snake oil salesman and his act is wearing thin.

Progressives now going for climate change bill

by Phantom Ace ( 158 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Liberal Fascism, Progressives at March 23rd, 2010 - 10:00 am

After their recent imposition of a Eugenics based health care reform against the will of the American people, the Progressives are now planning on revisiting Cap-N-Trade. Nevermind the fact that there is no Global Warming and in fact temperatures are cooling, the Left is going after this bill anyway. Assisted by Progressive Republican quisling Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Marxist traitor John Kerry (D-MA) is leading the charge in the Senate. The bill is nothing more than a power grab by the government to impose controls over the economy. This is another step in the Left’s goal of a Neo-Fedual society controlled by Elites.

After a hard-fought victory on health care reform, President Barack Obama’s allies in Congress are setting their sights on climate change — but some on both sides are already crying foul.

Environmentalists hope Obama will seize on new political momentum to push forward climate legislation, though some observers question whether he would seek another divisive vote as November congressional elections approach.

Senator John Kerry, who has spearheaded climate legislation, said that White House officials can now “pour their energy and attention” into the issue after Sunday’s down-to-the-wire vote on expanding health care coverage.

Read the rest: After health, Obama allies zero in on climate

This bill is the ultimate example of how Progressives really believe they are God-like divine beings. Do they really think they can control the weather? Apparently. That is the logic behind the bill, that they can control the climate! This is just another example of the narcissism of the Totalitarian Progressives and their agenda of control.

Update:I am not giving the phony Independent Joe Lieberman (I-CT) a pass here. He’s a Progressive Neo-Wilsonian so he implied also in this post as well. My focus was on the 2 main Culprits, Traitor Kerry and Quisling Lindsey.

(Update Hat Tip: Vagabond Trader)