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Call me crazy, but I've never been a huge fan of corporate
welfare, bloated bureaucracy,
massive regulation, or killing prosperity. At least without
detectable benefits. In voting for the
Waxman-Markey Cap-n-trade bill, at least
219 members of the House of Representatives, however, have shown that
they are all for that stuff. Marc Morano has a good summary.
The House of Representatives passed a bill it did not read, did not understand. A bill that is based on crumbling scientific claims and a bill that will have no detectable climate impact (assuming climate fear promoters are correct on the science and the bill is fully implemented – both implausible assumptions).
You can see how your Congresscritter voted here. Mine own, Carol Shea-Porter, unsurprisingly voted yea.The thing that really sticks in my craw, though, is the "did not read" bit. Tom Smith rakes his dimwitted (Republican) Congresswoman over the coals for her vote:
I don't doubt there are plenty of smug hybrid drivers around Temecula but really, in a bill this bad, you could have found a good reason for voting against it just by opening it at random. Of course, that assumes there was a copy in existence, which I gather was not technically the case. But even there, I think most people would regard it as a good reason to vote against a bill that it was in fact impossible to read it, or even most of it, before voting on it. Many of us in law related areas, just to take a random example, would consider it our fiduciary duty to actually read, perhaps even carefully, a legal instrument that would dispose of trillions of dollars of other people's money, before attaching our name to it. Is it too rash for a Congressperson to be expected to do the same? If so, you could have a rule of thumb -- less than $100 Billion: no worries, whatever, go ahead and sign without reading. But more than $100 Billion, or $1 Trillion, say, maybe read that sucker first. Just a thought.
Just do a quicks/Temecula/Portsmouth/
on that paragraph, and it's a wish-I'd-written. Any half-competent GOP candidate running against Carol Shea-Porter in 2010 should wrap this misfeasance around her neck like the dead albatross it is. -
On the "health care reform" front, Michael Cannon of Cato gets
a high priest of the Church of Universal Coverage to admit that 'universal
coverage' isn't much about improving health; it's pretty much all about
power.
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As if to provide an example, McQ notes a current proposal to
finance the scheme: taxing any private health plans deemed
overly generous by Your Federal Government.
Unless, mind you, such plans were negotiated by a union. In which case, they're off the table.
So "health care reform" is not really about "fairness" either. Cannon's right: it's all about power. And unless you belong to some powerful Democratic Party constituency, you ain't got much.
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Thank goodness the watchdog press is focusing like a laser beam
on all this! Oh, wait…
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I cant imagine that DraftSanford2012.com will be
around for much longer, so click while you can.
Jun
28
2009
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