I just learned from the Washington Journal on C-SPAN that they added THREE HUNDRED PAGES to the Cap and Trade legislation JUST LAST NIGHT! On top of the three hundred pages that have been added since the bill left Committee.
This is absolutely obscene. 1,500 pages of "the biggest tax in American history" and we have no hearings? No national discussion?! Why, the hearings on steroid use in baseball went on and on and I thought they'd never end. But here we sit with a bill no one has read and no one understands, the stakes couldn't be higher, and the Dims want to ram it through Congress in a re-run of the 'Stimulus.'
Yesterday evening, when the bill was still only 1200 pages, GovTrack warned that it was so large that "loading it may cause your web browser to perform sluggishly, or even freeze."
Hard as it is for me to believe, our Congress doesn't seem to have heard the hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country who came out on April 15th and told them, in no uncertain terms, to READ THE BILL NEXT TIME!
The good news is that We The People were able to flip two of our three representatives on this issue, just yesterday. The third, Shelley Moore Capito, was always opposed to bankrupting the coal industry in West Virginia. I don't know what took the other two so long to come around to simple common sense, but it seems our phone calls, faxes and protests made an impression.
Either that, or Nancy Pelosi gave them permission to actually represent their constituencies, just this once.
So in our state, Sen. Rockefeller now stands alone in allegiance to The Won, and a group of Young Republicans just held a candlelight vigil at his office last night (since candlelight is all we're going to have if Cap and Trade passes). Fair warning: We'll take him to the woodshed too, over the next couple of weeks.
I'm very proud that the posse in WV is saddled up. Read this strangely moving piece by Lloyd Marcus at American Thinker, and please, wherever you are and whatever you do, don't be one of those ungrateful, lily-livered townspeople peeking "nervously through the curtains."
If it's not High Noon in America Town quite yet, we're just about there... All we need is for you to take a side.
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