Posts about Stop Cap and Trade as of July 22, 2009

Jim DeMint defends his Waterloo remark , saying that Republicans should oppose health care reform in order to hurt President Obama politically: DeMint doesn’t realize it, but far from stopping the President, he’s actually helping make the case that Republicans aren’t really concerned with health care — they only care about politics. ::: Transcript: President Obama, July 20, 2009: Just the other day, one Republican senator said — and I’m quoting him now — “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo.

by Brad PeckEsquire gives out their Dubious Achievement Awards at the end of the year, but it appears that the U.S. House of Representatives has a lock on “worst piece of legislation ever.”  But which “worst” will walk away with the prize? Will it be health care? “The more we inspect the House bill, the more it looks to be one of the worst pieces of legislation ever introduced in Congress.” (Wall Street Journal)or Waxman-Markey? “The cap and trade bill is really the worst piece of legislation I’ve seen since I’ve been there.” (Rep.

Why am I not surprised that a recent WND/Wenzel survey shows a huge majority of Americans resists opening wallets for Cap-and-Trade !

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release                                                         July 22, 2009 PPRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS James S. Brady Press Briefing Room July 21, 2009 2:01 P.M. EDT MR. GIBBS: Before we start, just one quick announcement. President Obama will address the opening session of the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue on Monday, July 27th.

Jul. 22nd, 2009 | 08:40 am The special inspector general for TARP Niel Barofsky will testify Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The office of the special inspector general was created to serve as an auditor of the federal bailout by the same legislation that launched the TARP program itself.

President Obama, executing the ready, fire, aim drill he has perfected since January, yesterday “lashed out at Republicans for following a “familiar script” to “block healthcare reform.” Diverting attention from the elephant in the room (pardon the pun, it’s really a donkey) the President conveniently ignored that he doesn’t need the Republicans to get this health care Trojan horse inside the gates.

The special inspector general for TARP Niel Barofsky will testify Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The office of the special inspector general was created to serve as an auditor of the federal bailout by the same legislation that launched the TARP program itself.

Watch Barack Obama Presidential Press Conference July 22 2009 Live Stream Online Free Video . Barack Obama Presidential Press Conference Live Stream July 22 2009 9:00 pm (0100 GMT July 23) live from White house. US President Barack Obama will answer 20 questions about Economic, Health care, Energy & Climate change and Trade. Information detail about this sows can you see in below Barack Obama Presidential Press Conference July 22 2009 Questions (source: http://keithhennessey.com/2009/07/21/20-questions/ ): Economy 1.

Bernanke’s Exit Strategy; Timing’s The Issue – Market Talk Economics is in crisis: it is time for a profound revamp – FT.com America’s Federal Reserve: On the mend – The Economist Support for Health Reform Requires Facing Facts on Costs – NYTimes.com

A Baker’s Dozen of Reasons to Oppose Cap and Trade – jobsathomeblog.info 07/21/2009 #3: Higher energy bills The cap and trade debate, like most debates in Washington, has become a numbers game. One side says it’s cheap; the other says it’s expensive. Depending on what side of the political isle you fall on, selective hearing can dictate what you believe Waxman-Markey will do to the economy and how it will affect global warming. You hear it’s a jobs bill – that investing billions of dollar

President Obama is scheduled to hold a press conference tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at 8 PM EDT. I hope the questions are better than the one asked by Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times at the President’s 100-day press conference on April 30th: During these first 100 days, what has surprised you the most about this office, enchanted you the most about serving in this office, humbled you the most and troubled you the most? In case any members of the White House press corps are looking for more rigorous questions focused on economic policy, I offer the following for your consideration.

A Baker’s Dozen of Reasons to Oppose Cap and Trade » The Foundry You hear it won’t cost Americans families very much – about a stamp per day is what proponents of the bill say. Nothing could be further from the truth. Here are thirteen reasons to oppose cap and trade. Newsreel from the near future Under cover of darkness, GM’s top secret new vehicle — the 2012 Buick Bureaucrat — arrives at the New York Auto Show. Powered entirely by green energy sources, this beautiful Buick turns heads as it hits a top speed of 200 feet per minute.

By Dr Gideon Polya The following Open Letter letter is addressed to Australians, Australian media and Australian MPs. Dear Sir/Madam, Why anti-racist Australians and anti-racist Jewish Australians oppose racist Zionism, War and Genocide and cannot vote Labor. For anti-racist Jews and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians the core moral messages from the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from the more general WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Gypsy dead) are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”.

Once there was a poor farmer who wanted to become fabulously rich in the diamond trade. He deserted his farmland and traveled the world looking for diamonds until he was too old to look anymore. He returned home penniless, only to discover that the fields around his home were thick with flawless diamonds as big as your fist. The poor guy’s fortune had been right under his nose, but he had wasted his whole life looking everywhere but in his own backyard.