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Video: Boehner slaps down Waxman, filibusters cap and trade
Video: Boehner slaps down Waxman, filibusters cap and trade
Yeah, I know: Technically there’s no filibuster in the House, but the majority and minority leaders are typically given great latitude in terms of how long they can speak. [...] Read the rest »
The Cap and Tax Fiction
The Cap and Tax Fiction
online.wsj.com — [Review & Outlook] Associated Press Henry Waxman (more) The Cap and Tax Fiction
Going Green with Cap and Trade! (video)
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Going Green with Cap and Trade! (video)
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House GOP Leader Boehner Filibusters Cap-And-Trade Bill
House GOP Leader Boehner Filibusters Cap-And-Trade Bill
realclearpolitics.com — Just as the House of Representatives was getting ready to vote on a sweeping energy bill that... its backers said would reduce the nation's carbon emissions and encourage development of renewable energy, House GOP Leader John Boehner took to the ... (more) House GOP Leader Boehner Filibusters Cap-And-Trade Bill
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Cap And Tax Passes The House
Six Meat Buffet — ... Which means it’s time to attack your Senators (with phone calls, faxes, emails and visits, NOT weapons, silly) and let them know that you oppose this attack on American industry and on the American family. ...

Nothing Times Eight Is Nothing
Blue Crab Boulevard — ... Via AllahPundit at Hot Air : Update: 219-212, with eight Republicans - the difference between passage and defeat - defecting to vote yes. The boss is already hunting around for their names. I hope they got a sweet deal from Pelosi because talk radio is about to make their lives very, very difficult. Update: Inhofe predicts cap and trade will die in the Senate, which is probably true. I wonder if that made the bitter pill easier to swallow for those eight Republicans. Update: The boss has the names: Bono Mack Castle Kirk Lance LoBiondo McHugh Reichert Smith (NJ) For the ...

Right Wing Radio Week in Review: June 22 - 26, 2009
Right Wing News — ... urged callers to contact their representatives all week, to express their disapproval of the bill. Ultimately, the bill narrowly passed, in part because a small gang of Republicans chickened out and voted "yes." As Allahpundit observered at HotAir.com , "...talk radio is about to make their lives very, very difficult..." * ...

Johnson County, KS Cap And Tax Protest
Nice Deb — ... Emmy Jo, rising star in the conservative movement….you read it here, first. I enlisted hubby and youngest to help display signs… They graciously obliged… Mark those names… Had to be said… Expired. Who is for this? Boehner did his best… If only most ...

Manure
Jules Crittenden — ... no one will care that if gas is $3, $4 or $5 a gallon … lot the people who work for a living, pay taxes, and are eligible for that tax break, that is. Big economy booster that will burn all that oil up quicker, and be a lot more fun than putting around in electric wieniemobiles like someone’s elderly aunt. The auto and energy companies can use the dough for the switchover to hydrogen, so we can keep driving around in V8s after the gas is gone.  Malkin ’s got your sell-outs. HotAir ’s got your vid and running updates. The Other McCain  blames the National ...

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