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What he said last year: What he said today: So... were you persuaded? Was he telling the truth last year or today?

What a Week!

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  Join me for the National Conversation this Saturday from 1:00 to 3:00pm central time and on Sunday evening from 5:00 to 8:00pm on News Radio 620 WTMJ.

Old Goat Fight!

Two Democrats got into a verbal altercation — and according to one a physical one — on the floor of the House on Thursday night over an appropriations earmark one was seeking.

“You’re out of line,” Waters shot while walking down toward the well.

“You’re out of line,” Obey shot back before turning and walking away.

But then Obey stopped, turned back toward Waters, and shouted: “I’m not going to approve that earmark!”

HELLO!Dem be fightin' words!!! You can read about the incident in The Hill. Don't you just love it when Dem have their spats! If Obey is going to play hard ball with Maxine Waters then he better be willing to hold the line with old KKK Robert Byrd!

For now, someone needs to tell Waters... Don't mess with Wisconsin!

Hummm, that doesn't have the same ring as Texas does it.

18.1%

The Spanish professor is puzzled. Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the U.S. president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating "green jobs" in "alternative energy" even though Spain's unemployment rate is 18.1 percent -- more than double the European Union average -- partly because of spending on such jobs? -The Washington Post

It's time for Americans to take a page from Nancy Reagan's war on drugs and apply it to "Cap and Trade"

Just Say No!

Obama, the African Colonial

I was working on this when Rush started reading it!  L.E. Ikenga knows Barack Obama! Read her piece in the American Thinker and pay particular attention to #3.

During the Obamacare infomercial, I found myself Tweeting my disdain.  As I listened to "The One'" rambling on and on without answering any questions, bloviating about information that was clearly above his pay grade... I tweeted:

"The neophyte is running banks, a car company and now he wants health care! How did the American people get so lucky?" Followed by; "When did the community organizer become an expert in nationalized health care?"

This article answers the question.

Cap-and-Tax, a Man-Made Disaster

  Investor's Business Daily has a scathing editorial on the day the legislation is scheduled for a vote. Yesterday the King of Pop dies a tragic death. Today liberals in congress will vote to kill the greatest economy of all time. Read it and weep.

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Fiscal Policy: The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on an anti-stimulus package that in the name of saving the earth will destroy the American economy. Smoot-Hawley will seem like a speed bump.

Not since a misguided piece of legislation imposed tariffs that turned a recession into a depression has there been a piece of legislation as bad as Waxman-Markey.

The 1,000-plus-page American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) is being rushed to a vote by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi before anyone can seriously object to this economic suicide pact.

It's what Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security, might call a "man-caused disaster," a phrase she coined to replace the politically incorrect "terrorist attack." But no terrorist could ever dream of inflicting as much damage as this bill.

Its centerpiece is a "cap and trade" provision that has been rightfully derided as "cap and tax." It is in fact a tax on energy everywhere it is consumed on everything it is used to make or provide.

It is the largest tax increase in American history — a tax on all Americans — even the 95% that President Obama pledged would never see a tax increase.

It's a political bill that could come to a vote now that a deal was struck with farm-state legislators concerned about the taxation of even bovine flatulence.

As part of the agreement reached Tuesday night and announced by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Beverly Hills, agricultural oversight for cap-and-trade was transferred from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Farmers hope the USDA will be less intrusive. The EPA has been tasked by a Supreme Court ruling to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from your nostrils to your lawn mower. This even covers the emissions of barnyard animals, including the methane from cows.

The American Farm Bureau warns that cap and trade would cost the average farmer $175 on every dairy cow and $80 for beef cattle. So farm-state politics trumped climate change.

We all know about farmers paid not to grow food. But now, American taxpayers apparently will be paying companies not to chop down trees. The Washington Times reports that as part of the legislation, the House will also be voting Friday on a plan to pay domestic and international companies around the world not to cut down trees.

Such offsets "would be a transfer of wealth overseas," said William Kovacs, vice president for environmental affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. So if a tree falls in a Brazilian forest, does a U.S. taxpayer make a sound?

As we've said before, capping emissions is capping economic growth. An analysis of Waxman-Markey by the Heritage Foundation projects that by 2035 it would reduce aggregate gross domestic product by $7.4 trillion. In an average year, 844,000 jobs would be destroyed, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by almost 2 million (see charts below).

Consumers would pay through the nose as electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, as President Obama once put it, by 90% adjusted for inflation. Inflation-adjusted gasoline prices would rise 74%, residential natural gas prices by 55% and the average family's annual energy bill by $1,500.

Hit hardest by all this would be the "95% of working families" Obama keeps mentioning as being protected from increased taxation. They are protected, that is, unless they use energy. Then they'll be hit by this draconian energy tax.

And what would we get for all this pain? According to an analysis by Chip Knappenberger, administrator of the World Climate Report, the reduction of U.S. CO2 emissions to 83% below 2005 levels by 2050 — the goal of the Waxman-Markey bill — would reduce global temperature in 2050 by a mere 0.05 degree Celsius.

President Obama has called on the U.S. to "lead by example" on global warming. During the campaign, he said: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."

Soon we may not be able to. Other countries can just sit back and watch us destroy ourselves. Where will you be when the lights go out?

It's just amazing to me that supposedly intelligent Americans, who serve as Democrat members of the House of Representatives, can be so terribly stupid as to believe that a bill like this is good for America. They've become so blinded by the global warming religion, that like the members of Jim Jones' People's Temple, they're willing to drink the Kool-Aid at the request of their leaders. However, instead of just killing themselves, they plan to take the rest of us with them.

There's still hope that the legislation will be a few votes short and that a handful of Democrats from agricultural states will be able to stop this thing. I pray that is so.

The tragic end of Michael Jackson

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach provides insight. He was a friend to MJ and saw this coming.  Click here.

R.I.P.

Farrah Fawcett / Michael Jackson

Two Icons die on the same day?!?  Sad & Shocking.

Audit the FED