Reasonable Responses to Climate Change

Reasonable Responses to Climate Change

New NCPA Study Examines Policies that Effectively Address Climate Change


Dallas (September 30, 2009) - The cap-and-trade bill that Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry are slated to introduce today could cost taxpayers more than $1,761 per family annually and will not reduce global warming temperatures anymore than one-tenth of a degree by 2050, according to a study released today by the National Center for Policy Analysis.
"The bill will do nothing to effectively address global warming, will cause more harm than it prevents, and will impose enormous costs on American families," said H. Sterling Burnett, Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis and author of the study.
For example, the study concludes that:

• Cap-and-trade would cost an average of $314 billion a year in lost GDP or $9.4 trillion over the period from 2012 to 2035.
• It would increase the cost of residential electricity 31 percent to 50 percent by 2030
• Job losses would total 2.5 million by 2030

"Climate change is mainly projected to add to existing problems, rather than create new ones," Burnett said. "No-regrets policies that provide benefits beyond their effects on climate as well as policies that help us to adapt to future climate change should be implemented."
The new NCPA study examines several policies that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce America's dependence on foreign oil and reduce energy prices for consumers.
These "no-regrets" policies include:

• Eliminating fuel subsidies
• Reducing regulatory barriers to building new nuclear power plants.
• Encouraging breakthroughs in new technology by fostering competition

"Taken together, these policies could do a great deal to minimize the risks of global warming while at the same time promoting economic growth and global development, not to mention providing sustainable financial support for Americans and their families," Burnett said.
To read the full study, "Reasonable Responses to Climate Change," log on to http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/st324.pdf. To arrange an interview with H. Sterling Burnett, contact Leah Gipson.              

Rejected Amendments to the Baucus Bill

FYI | Rejected Amendments to the Baucus Bill

Sep 29, 2009

by John Goodman

Bunning Open Records Amendment: would have required the full language and full price tag to be available on the Internet for three days before Congress votes.

Hatch Medicare Advantage (MA) Amendment: would have suspended MA provisions if the CBO finds that (contrary to the President’s promise) seniors are going to lose coverage or benefits.

Kyl Anti-Gag Order Amendment: would have allowed MA insurers to inform seniors of their likely loss of benefits.

Ensign/Cornyn/Kyl Malpractice Lawsuit Amendments: would have provided relief from lawsuits.

TEN FOR '10: WINNING WASHINGTON BY EMPOWERING AMERICANS

From Laura Ingraham TEN FOR '10: WINNING WASHINGTON BY EMPOWERING AMERICANS

1) Taxpayers' Bill of Rights (TABOR). Limit federal spending growth to the percentage in population growth plus the rate of inflation; provide taxpayers the option of filing a post-card sized return using a low, flat tax rate of 15% 2) End Tax-funded abortions. Stop federal payments to Planned Parenthood and prohibit any taxpayer-subsidized health insurance plan from covering abortion 3) Defend American Borders. Complete America's border-protection initiatives using remaining funds from the so-called stimulus bill 4) King Dollar. Preserve a strong dollar so that Americans' savings aren't wiped out by inflation and the U.S. dollar remains the world's reserve currency 5) Empower American Business. Immediately slash corporate tax rates to 15% and scrap the capital-gains tax altogether 6) Defend America. Strengthen America to defend our homeland and fully fund an operational, layered missile-defense system 7) Statism Exit Plan. De-fund czars; immediately cease bailout payments to failed companies; ban future bailouts 8) End Generational Theft. As few believe America's entitlement programs will be able to pay benefits to future generations, provide younger workers the choice of diverting payroll/Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts 9) Restore America's System of Justice. Introduce penalties for frivolous lawsuits, where those who launch unsuccessful lawsuits are liable for the defendants' legal bills 10) American Energy Independence. All-of-the-Above strategy that embraces alternatives, expands and accelerates exploration and production of oil and natural gas, and jumpstarts dramatic increases in nuclear power Backers/Signatories - Tom Price (R-Ga.), chairman of the Republican Study Committee - Michael Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner & Republican candidate for Senate - Rep. Jep Hensarling (R-Texas), member of the Republican Study Committee - Rick Crawford, Republican congressional candidate, Arkansas first district - Marco Rubio, Florida Republican senatorial candidate

The Top Ten Health Care Questions

We are asking our fellow citizens to help us develop a list of The Top Ten Health Care Questions President Obama Has Not Yet Answered. You can vote on up to ten of the questions we've proposed below, or you can also submit your own question for inclusion in the list.

Take the survey below and tell us what 10 questions YOU would like to ask the President!

http://toptenhealthcarequestions.com/poll.php

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Mental Disorders

Do ya think things are going a bit too far

The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is expected in 2012. Up for debate: whether to add compulsive shopping, Internet addiction, apathy, and even prolonged bitterness to the list of mental illnesses.

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Audit the Federal Reserve

One of the pressing issues on Bernie's mind: That the Senate will pass S 604, their version of Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve.

Sponsor: Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] (introduced 3/16/2009)      Cosponsors (28)
Related Bills: H.R.1207

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 2/26/2009)      Cosponsors (294)
Related Bills: S.604

Who better to bundle

Regulations intended to shed light on bundling by lobbyists are coming up short. According to an Associated Press review published last week, which compared invitations to fund-raisers hosted by lobbyists and campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission from March 19 through June, lawmakers have yet to disclose funds they raised at 195 events.
Although the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act requiring lawmakers to report cash “bundled” by lobbyists went into effect in March of this year, Oonly about two-dozen lawmakers between then and June have reported funds raised by lobbyists, the AP found, even though the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act requiring lawmakers to report cash “bundled” by lobbyists went into effect in March of this year. What can a lobbyist do to escape disclosure? Don’t touch the money, don’t take credit, raise less than $16,000 (the threshold for reporting, which does not include contributions from the lobbyist and his/her spouse) or work as an in-house lobbyist for a business, union or trade association and have your employer officially sponsor the event. HLOGA was passed in 2007 in response to the Jack Abramoff scandal, but the AP concludes that “the circumstances under which a member of Congress is legally bound to disclose a lobbyist’s fund-raising are so narrow that, had the law been in effect during Abramoff’s lobbying days, it wouldn’t have exposed much, if any, of his congressional fundraising money trail.” The Hill reported a similar story this week.
From The Capital Eye Blog

Dems lied, transparency died

Senate Finance Committee Democrats have rejected a GOP amendment that would have required a health overhaul bill to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes.
Republicans argued that transparency is an Obama administration goal. They also noted that their constituents are demanding that they read bills before voting.
The Democrats noted that unlike other committees, the Finance Committee works off conceptual language that describes policies — instead of legislative language that ultimately becomes law, and which the GOP amendment would have required.
Democrats accepted an alternate amendment to make conceptual language available online before a vote.
Currently, the only version of Chairman Max Baucus’s proposal we have is a 223-page draft (PDF) that is written in plain English and explains the bill in conceptual terms. Republicans argued that until the bill is written in legislative language it will be impossible for the CBO to provide an accurate cost estimate.
The Bunning ammendment would have required the committee to have the legislative language of the bill, along with the CBO cost estimate, posted on the internet for 72 hours before a vote.
Democrats argued that waiting for the legislative languange to be written, and for the CBO to evaluate it, would needlessly delay the process by weeks.
“Let’s be honest about it, most people don’t read the legislative language,” Sen. John Kerry said.
The Bunning amendment was defeated by a 12 to 11 vote,
with Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln the only Democrat voting in favor.

Hillary Klinton

Remember this???

We can't do these kind of pictures now though!!!

Right???? Cause we'd be considered racist!!!!

This is all stuff from the likes of the far Leftist Hill Klinton

“Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.” HK

“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.” HK

Conservatives Copy ‘Rules for Radicals’

Conservatives Copy ‘Rules for Radicals’

By Don | September 18, 2009

Conservative activists have been adopting tactics normally used by the left to fight president Obama and the Democrats with surprising results.

From the Politico read the whole article here

Conservatives are coming for the Democrats on their blind side — the left.



The evidence is everywhere.



At tea parties and town halls, conservative demonstrators oppose health care reform with signs bearing the abortion-rights slogan “Keep your laws off my body” or the line “Obama lies, Grandma dies” — an echo of the “Bush lied, they died” T-shirts worn to protest the Iraq war.



Conservative activists are yelling “Nazi!” and “Big Brother!” where they used to shout, “Nanny state!” and “Big Government!”

ACLU defends jihadi enemy combatants

ACLU defends its CIA paparazzi project
By Michelle Malkin • September 18, 2009 09:11 AM

On August 26, my syndicated column blasted the ACLU for its spying operation on undercover CIA agents. The pictures of covert American CIA officers – “in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes” – were shown to jihadi suspects tied to the 9/11 attacks in order to identify the interrogators.

The ACLU responded to my column here, defending their paparazzi operation as both legal and ethical and attacking me as — wait for it — “insensitive” to the “due process” needs of jihadi enemy combatants.

New CAFE Standards

President Obama’s New CAFE Standards May Cause More Harm Than Good

NCPA Expert Explains New Standards Will Reduce Consumer Choice, Increase Auto Price and Increase Fatalities

Dallas (May 19, 2009) - The Obama Administration's announcement today of new mileage and pollution standards is a disgraceful attempt to court environmental votes by reducing consumer choice, according to H. Sterling Burnett, Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis. Because the government now has so much control over two of the major companies it can extort the industry into not objecting.

President Obama's tightening of national program for higher Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards is part of his plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change and ease U.S. dependence on oil. These new standards include an increase in fuel efficiency targets to 35.5 miles per gallon for new passenger vehicles and light trucks by 2016, four years earlier than required under the 2007 energy bill.

"People have the choice to purchase fuel efficient cars if they want them," Burnett said.

From the NCPA. read it here

Two women seeking the Republican nomination

WWE Chief Executive Linda McMahon Brings Strong Democratic Ties to Her Attempt to Smackdown Chris Dodd
Published by Michael Beckel on September 16, 2009 6:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
McMahonWWE.jpgLinda McMahon, the chief executive officer of World Wrestling Entertainment, announced today she's seeking the Republican Party's nomination to upset incumbent Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.). (She also announced that she would be resigning from her WWE post to focus on her campaign.)

But McMahon's history is hardly that of a hardcore Republican.

McMahon and husband Vince McMahon, who is the chairman of the WWE, have contributed nearly $90,000 to federal candidates and committees since 1989, the Center for Responsive Politics has found. And of this sum, 51 percent has gone to Democrats and 47 percent has gone to Republicans.
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Can you say Rino!!!!!


Jane Norton formally enters Senate race

Saying she had become "more and more alarmed about the direction our nation is headed," Jane Norton, a Republican and former lieutenant governor, formally launched her 2010 campaign for the U.S. Senate today with rallies spanning the state, including one at the downtown Antlers Hilton.

Norton's theme here and at appearances in Denver and Grand Junction was the size and reach of the federal government.

"At every turn, Washington's giant hand seems to be grabbing everything in sight," she said, "seizing control of our car companies, banks, insurance companies, exploding the national debt and chipping away at individual liberty."

She promised to be "a senator who will stand up to big government power grabs."
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It’s Not Just ACORN

It’s Not Just ACORN; SEIU’s Underage Sex Scandal
by Bret Jacobson
http:not-just-acorn-seius
The ACORN-linked, “public option”-mongering Service Employees International Union has its own black eye to contend with. A former official with SEIU Local 1000 in California was slapped with a 25-year prison sentence for charges of child molestation and making/possessing child pornography. News10 reports a troubling angle:

Jaime Enrique Feliciano, who served as president of Service Employees International Union Local 1000 representing thousands of Sacramento-area state workers, had previous convictions for child molestation and failure to register as a sex offender.

Previous convictions? ACORN and SEIU deserve each other.

Republicrats & Democans

OK, so the Republicans may not be the solution but the Democrats are sure as hell the problem.

Real Men can wear pink

Are you crazy? It is broke!!

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - you have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke.
Social Security was established in 1935 - you have had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you have had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.
The "War on Poverty" started in 1964 - you have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked and our entire country is broke.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you've had 44 years to get it right; they are broke.
Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you have had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.
Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the "Stimulus", the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009... none show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new victim: the American taxpayer.
And finally, to set a new record:
"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took good dependable cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress' generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.
So with a perfect 100% failure! rate and a record that proves that "services" you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?

20% of our entire economy?

With all due respect,

Are you crazy?

book signing for Michelle Malkin today

Went by the book signing for Michelle Malkin today. Such a long line I couldn't wait. Tried coming back a little later but she had gone. I'll bet not all the people got their books signed. I went up to watch her and get a few pictures. What a pleasant growd and Michelle, jeeze I don't how she did it. Managing to be so nice and polite to everyone. Smiling and pictures with her fans. I only saw one decrementing voice. Some extremist leftist jerk. Ha, what a loser. I sure wanted a chance to talk to her and get my pic with her but no.

9/12 Tea Party

9/12 Tea Party Turnout Numbers and Photos
By thomasjeffersonclubblog

If you haven’t seen anything about the tea party in Washington today, take a look at Michelle Malkin’s site. http://michellemalkin.com/

She’s reporting a turnout estimate of 2 million in Washington. I’ve heard there were 10,000 in Chicago.

Saw a report of 12,000 in Quincy, IL, and more photos of DC.

NutTheSquirrel says: If you decide you're indecisive, which one are you?

Can you believe how much haze in the air from the Calif. fires. Can't even see the mountains from my side of town.