TeaTime on Cap & Tax

At Kirk's office today (see you there):

Monday - June 29 - 12 Noon
707 Skokie Boulevard
Suite 350
Northbrook, IL 60062

Melissa Bean's:

Tuesday - June 30 - 12 Noon
Melissa Bean
1701 E. Woodfield Road
Suite 200
Schaumburg, IL 60173

HT Marathon Pundit.

I know he's a moderate but I've always supported Kirk on national security and keeping taxes and spending in line. This is a radical bill which wreaks havoc on our energy independence, our economy, and will bring staggering costs to bear on every American family.

More: John Hinderaker, Powerline, Obama's EPA Quashes Climate Change Science. Faith-based ecology.

UPDATE: Team America's 10th District Blog covers Kirk's explanation. I didn't get his email either, though I don't always get one, I had to read his explanation on Dem Ellen of 10th's blog. A few points: Despite Kirk's contention, no way in hell does this bill "diversify" our energy production--it kills coal (which provides 85% of Illinois' power), clean or otherwise, strangles drilling, and kicks nuclear to the back burner--the only longterm sustainable alternative energy source to carbon. As for air pollution, this bill will not only export our jobs overseas, it will export pollution as well--how irresponsible is that if you are really concerned about the planet. And fiscally--these taxes are ruinous and will amount to thousands for every American, while funding fraudulent carbon trading schemes and encouraging a new green housing bubble and BUST that will knock us further back--are you trying to turn us into a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY Rep. KIRK?!!!

Do Americans want to embrace a UNABOMBER lifestyle?!!! Of course the Hollywood and really rich elites will weather this no problem, but the rest of us will pay through the nose to swelter in our nanny-nazi patrolled homes and endure electricity rationing--FOR NO GOOD REASON--look at the Science!!! You are way behind the curve, Rep. Kirk--and if you're so independent--how about demanding an explanation of the EPA suppression of their own scientists' study which didn't support the fore-ordained carbon-menace conclusion? Even if you believed in man-caused global warming this bankrupting bill will cause untold real damage NOW for barely budging the thermometer decades down the road. This is INSANE--especially at a time when we have double-digit unemployment and you yourself have been bleating about the dangerous amount of debt we are piling up to the point that the Chinese may be unwilling to finance it--and we could enter a period of hyperinflation.

So don't DARE call yourself a fiscal conservative any more. Don't DARE. IT IS LAUGHABLE. You have NO CREDIBILITY any more. ZERO.

P.S. A little history lesson (Gee--did the Vikings emit enough carbon to warm the entire bleepin' Earth?):
P.S. Silva quotes bogus CBO numbers, but for once puts in some of the other side of the debate (am I making him a better reporter?:):

That campaign will be made all the more difficult in the face of the "cap and tax'' argument, and the argument of Republicans such as Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa that the only signs manufacturers will be hanging on their doors about jobs will be the ones that read: "Gone to China.''

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