Substitute Bill Offered

UPDATES below--Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio is going through the 3 am last minute changes the Dems made. An astonishing federal power grab.***Republican Aaron Schock on the floor. Peoria unemployment is double digits. Energy bills will go up under cap and tax. In favor of Forbes bill substitute.

More: Other Virginia moderates support. Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota also in support.

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tjbrownCap and trade is a tax on energy. It taxes production and consumption. You tax what you don't want. A yes vote means you want neither

It's the Dem Unabomber lifestyle. We can eat Al's book for breakfast.

P.S. But I would be happy if the EPA would move into Kaczynski's shack.

P.P.S. Why do we have to pay so much to be poor? Maybe this chart has something to do with it.

More: Boehner's going through the 3 am 300 pages the Dems dropped this morning---every house has to have an energy rating!!! Before you sell your house you have to bring it up to snuff?!! Overriding all local building codes? Building code nazis mandated for each community from the feds--that we will have to pay for whether we like it or not....

oh, and the bill recognizes "precipitous unemployment" and shipping jobs overseas, and killing small businesses, so we'll have to have subsidies for that...

micromanaging electric outlets...

existing structures get energy audits...? OK, so my 90 year old house is going to be under scrutiny--maybe I should trash my leaded-glass windows for Barack Obama...

(my God, can you imagine this? you thought your local zoning board was tough enough to deal with)

oh, wow, a new FAnnie-Freddie mortgage bubble for green buildings--great, just what we need, a double-dip depression...

(what will this bill regulate next?) (Just put us in the chairman Mao uniforms now.)

...OK, ACORN is getting grants too--community organizing makes the bill...

Boehner points out we've spent all this year's income by April 16th--everything we spend from here on out is borrowed from our children and grandchildren...

all real estate appraisers have to be retrained, re-licensed...

green banking centers...

WHAT!!! The full faith and credit of the US is going to guarantee principal and interest for God knows what...

carbon derivative credits to be traded under some new rules by the CFTC...

now we get into trade matters, trying to regulate the rest of the world...

(China and India won't play--and we could start a trade war)...

Boehner--Americans think their Congress is out of touch--creating a giant bureaucracy, rather than trusting the American people and giving them incentives, and freedom to live their lives. Allow freedom to flourish!