Bully Boys Waxman and Markey Promote ‘Endangerment’ of Economy, Democracy

This week (March 3, 2010) was the deadline Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) set for Mark Crisson, President and CEO of the American Public Power Association (APPA), to explain why APPA is urging Senators to support Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s Congressional Review Act resolution to veto the EPA’s finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. The Senate may vote on the Murkowski resolution as soon as next week.

Now, aside from the merits of the issue, which I’ll get into in a moment, Waxman and Markey’s behavior is out of line. Waxman and Markey (W/M) are Members of the House of Representatives. What business is it of theirs if the APPA lobbies Senators about a bill pending in the Senate? Senators can conduct their own inquiries without any assistance from W/M. And why didn’t W/M copy Sen. Murkowski or at least Senate Energy Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) on their Feb. 25 letter to Mr. Crisson? Failure to “cc” any of the principals in the Senate flouts one of the most basic rules of legislative courtesy.

Besides being busybodies, Waxman and Markey are bullies.

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Tags: american public power association, appa, Barbara Boxer, cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade
Posted Mar 5th 2010 at 9:51 am in Congress, Environment, News, Politics | 84922144 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mlewis/2010/03/05/bully-boys-waxman-and-markey-promote-endangerment-of-economy-democracy/Bully+Boys+Waxman+and+Markey+Promote+%27Endangerment%27+of+Economy%2C+Democracy+2010-03-05+17%3A51%3A02Marlo+Lewis%2C+Jr.

The Tea Party’s Focus: Elections

For the Tea Party movement, 2009 was about coming together, meeting our brothers and sisters in arms, and standing athwart socialism, yelling, “Stop!”  It worked. President Obama entered office promising socialized medicine, card check, and cap and trade all before the August recess.  He went 0 for 3 thanks a grassroots uprising that came together like spattered quicksilver.

In our desire to fix things, we also launched a lot of legislative initiatives.  These initiatives included various sovereignty amendments in the states, petitions for Constitutional Conventions, petitions for redress of grievances, petitions of right, and state laws exempting states from any national healthcare legislation.  Each of these was a bold and important step, and such laws, amendments, and petitions should continue.  Next year.

Let’s not fool ourselves. While the Tea Party movement has been very effective, it has been effective only when focused on a very narrow set of compelling causes.  Our quick responses to card check and cap and trade convinced the White House to suspend those initiatives until we weren’t looking. Our overwhelming attack on ObamaCare took the last bit of energy and time from each Tea Party patriot.  We left it all on the field.

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Tags: august town halls, cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, government health care, leftist policies
Posted Feb 4th 2010 at 7:13 am in Tea Party | 6969888 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bhennessy/2010/02/04/the-tea-partys-focus-elections/The+Tea+Party%27s+Focus%3A+Elections2010-02-04+15%3A13%3A01Bill+Hennessy

Force-feeding Us Big Government

After the bruising health care policy fight in America left moderate Democrats battered, they could get fried if leading big-government-type politicians keep pushing cap and trade energy rationing and taxes.

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Tags: cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, health care reform, ObamaCare
Posted Jan 4th 2010 at 11:41 am in Environment, Political Humor | 5508246 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bjacobson/2010/01/04/force-feeding-us-big-government/Force-feeding+Us+Big+Government2010-01-04+19%3A41%3A59Bret+Jacobson

Obama Job Summit: Another Manufacturer Opts Out of U.S.A.

On November 11, David N. Farr, Chairman, CEO and President of Emerson Electric Co., announced at the Baird 2009 Industrial Conference in Chicago that President Obama has succeeded in chasing his multi-billion dollar industry right out of the U.S.A. Why? Onerous regulation, high taxes, and the over $1 trillion Obama debt should be reason enough for any business to consider shutting down U.S. facilities and seeking greener pastures overseas says Farr.

The federal government is “doing everything in [its] manpower [and] capability to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” says David Farr, chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric Co., in a presentation at the Baird 2009 Industrial Conference in Chicago Ill., on Nov. 11. In comments reported by Bloomberg, Farr added that companies will continue adding jobs in China and India because they are “places where people want the products and where the governments welcome you to actually do something. I am not going to hire anybody in the United States. I’m moving. They are doing everything possible to destroy jobs.”

During his slide show on the state of Emerson’s business, Farr noted that the “unprecedented job loss experienced in this recession will result in a much slower U.S. recovery” and the federal government is making matters worse. The slide reports that the job loss this time is by many magnitudes worse than previous recessions. Noted are job losses from several recessions: 1980 with 1 million jobs lost; 1982 with 2.8 million; 1990 with 1.5 million; 2001 with 2.7 million. Finally Farr notes that we’ve seen a whopping 7.3 million jobs lost thus far (and climbing) in this 2008-2009-2010 recession.

And the culprit? Obama’s government interference. Farr’s presentation noted the following:

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Tags: cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, economic growth, emerson electric, federal debt
Posted Dec 3rd 2009 at 9:31 am in Economics, Obama | 34562131 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2009/12/03/obama-job-summit-another-manufacturer-opts-out-of-u-s-a/Obama+Job+Summit%3A+Another+Manufacturer+Opts+Out+of+U.S.A.2009-12-03+16%3A31%3A47Warner+Todd++Huston

Big, Green, Global Government

One learns a new language upon first wading into the world of ,what’s favorably called by the Al Gores and Jacques Chiracs of the world, “global governance”. That term, used in all seriousness and intended as a compliment, means the web of international agreements (typically in the name of the environment), committing the prosperous world to agree to  do things it would never enact via its own democratic processes. New words such as “subsidiarity” and “additionality” are forged and tossed around like Mardi Gras beads at earnest negotiating sessions and in deathless texts. It’s Esperanto for the bossy jet-setters racked with guilt over your lifestyle.

Another of my favorites is “capacity building”, which means wealth transfers to prepare a poor society to receive a larger wealth transfer in the future. You see, certain among those societies our green superiors are trying to hector into behaving in a certain way – which is all of them – are not yet able to deal with the financial windfall due them from the Kyoto Protocols of the world. These international agreements frankly are more about redistribution than anything else. For example, Kyoto is in no way about actually reducing “greenhouse gas emissions”, but instead it creates a Ponzi-like scheme of paying other countries to sell you pieces of paper saying that you reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

And a good thing, too, because those few countries who are covered by Kyoto have all – like the rest of the world – increased their actual emissions since agreeing to this “historic emissions reduction pact.” Still, as we approach the December deadline for agreeing to a successor, Kyoto will be nonetheless be hailed for its accomplishment. Maybe by this they mean the recent cooling.

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Tags: Al Gore, Alliance for Climate Protection, cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, Center for American Progress
Posted Oct 8th 2009 at 11:10 am in Congress, Culture, Environment, Politics | 1438632 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/10/08/big-green-global-government/Big%2C+Green%2C+Global+Government2009-10-08+18%3A10%3A19Christopher+C.+Horner

Kerry and Boxer’s Wheel of Misfortune

A little cartoon to brighten your day, even as Senate Democrats seem Hell-bent on trying to hit the dimmer switch on our economy.

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Tags: cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, emission caps, emission credits, Sen. Barbara Boxer
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 at 9:10 am in Economics, Environment, Politics | 1144632 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bjacobson/2009/10/02/kerry-and-boxers-wheel-of-misfortune/Kerry+and+Boxer%27s+Wheel+of+Misfortune2009-10-02+16%3A10%3A51Bret+Jacobson

Cap-and-Trade Really Is Cap-and-Tax

I was pleased to see the two colleagues either chosen to flank, or who elbowed their way up front to surround, Sens. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer when they introduced their “cap-and-trade” energy rationing scheme on Capitol Hill today. This Senate answer to the House’s California-Massachusetts Axis seeking to divine the nation’s future economic policy by means of environment policy — Beverly Hills’ Henry Waxman was the House bill’s co-author, along with Ed Markey — were boxed in by none other than one of the more intellectually and politically open members of that august body, self-styled Socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Ben Cardin (D-MD).

Mr. Sanders’ high-profile support for the program moving individual energy use decisions from producers and consumers to the benevolent state requires no commentary. But it is Mr. Cardin who caught my eye, for reasons relating to his own candor.

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Tags: cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, Capitol Hill, Rep. Ed Markey, Rep. Henry Waxman
Posted Oct 1st 2009 at 6:15 am in Congress, Environment, Politics | 1061028 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/chorner/2009/10/01/cap-and-trade-really-is-cap-and-tax/Cap-and-Trade+Really+Is+Cap-and-Tax2009-10-01+13%3A15%3A41Christopher+C.+Horner