NEWS JUNKIE POST
Jun 28, 2009 at 8:20 amWill The Senate Block The Climate Change Bill?
By Gilbert Mercier, NEWS JUNKIE POST
It took the White House to work relentlessly last Friday to get enough votes in the House to pass a landmark bill, and one of the Obama administration’s top legislative priorities: The comprehensive bill to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
The bill passed with a narrow margin in the House. However, it could be more challenging for the Obama administration to get the bill approved by the Senate without some amendments that would give it a lot less bite.
Coal States lawmakers and conservative Democrats are likely to have issues with many key provisions. Getting it through the Senate could require some serious negotiations, and perhaps some arm twisting.
Obama claimed that the average American would not bear the brunt of this historic tax-increase: he stated that instead ““It is paid for by the polluters who currently emit dangerous carbon emissions.”
Just compare this outrageous falsehood to Ronald Reagans’ famous quote:
“The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate, and either one should scare us.
Business doesn’t pay taxes, and who better than business to make this message known? Only people pay taxes, and people pay as consumers every tax that is assessed against a business.”
And after the way the rammed this through the House with little debate, without legislators even reading it… and while quarantining the GOP from any meaningful input whatsoever, any foolhardy individuals who still believe Obama’s threadbare “bipartisanship” spiel ought to have their head examined.
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