Cap-and-Trade

The manner in which the ObamaCare Bill was handled should be firmly embedded in your mind now-- unless you have no apprehension, reasoning or common sense capacity. Closed door sessions, total lack of transparency, and a 2,600 page largely un-read and confusing bill that still has not seen the 'light of day'. And thus the government is taking over one sixth of the American economy. And now Bernanke and Geithner admit that vast new taxes will be necessary and their proposal is that the time for a VAT tax has arrived. (More about how a VAT tax is administrated later and, more important, how dismal it is for the socialist countries in Europe that use it.)

Why am I covering all this now? The reason is simple, plain and promises even more taxes on all of us in ways that we cannot control.

Those wonderful leaders of the Democratic Party are gearing up to the 'Cap-and-Trade' legislation . . . and they are planning on approaching it in exactly the same way as ObamaCare. That means 'closed door sessions' followed by thousands of pages of undecipherable legalese double talk followed by the familiar 'ram it down the people's throat' tactics.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is ready to introduce new legislation that impose a national energy tax on all Americans. The end result will be higher prices on everything you buy. I repeat, EVERYTHING!

Called “cap-and-trade” or “climate change” or “global warming” legislation, the new attempt to place a crippling national tax on America’s energy resources is being put together by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). Lindsey Graham is a RINO (Republican In Name Only). We all know the great liberal, Kerry, with his questionable military record. Lieberman ?? Well, poor Joe isn't really wanted by either party.

According to the new report, the trio will not formally introduce the bill in the Senate when it’s unveiled next week. “If we introduce it, it'll get referred to committees,” (heaven forbid going through committees) Lieberman said. “We want him to be able to work with it and bring it out onto the floor as a leader whenever he's ready.”

This opens the doors for more Reid backroom deals and catering to special interests on the bill instead of going through the normal committee process. Our wonderful Congress in action, building an even bigger and more intrusive government. One would suppose that Pelosi will again claim that "we must pass it so that we can see what is in it".

And things are not so well in that hallowed Senate Democrat heaven. There are already turf battles brewing in the attempt to cut deals behind closed doors followed by the headlong rush to get the massive tax through the Senate.

Even before Senators Kerry, Graham and Lieberman introduce their global warming cap and tax bill, they (and other devious liberals) are looking for every opportunity to circumvent the Committee process. Considering the success of the Democrats ability to cut deals behind closed doors to pass a health care bill, it would be folly not to expect them to use the same procedure for cap and tax legislation.
The backroom deal process is becoming the acceptable norm. And it closely resembles what is called “corruption” in third word countries.

Instead of "Hey Dude! Where is my 'free' health insurance?" -- How about higher prices on EVERYTHING?

And then, guess what? Next comes Amnesty for Illegal Aliens. Is this a great country -- or what?

Ya know -- it makes more sense with every day that passes. RE-ELECT NOBODY!

DE