Why is it any time a Republican voices dissent to legislation or politicians (read: President Obama), they are automatically "rooting for America to fail"?

I just don't get it. man-made climate change is a myth. That volcano in Japan 3 weeks ago let loose more "pollution" in one day than the world has put out in a a year. Yet no one is griping about that. Someone needs to investigate Waxman and what he stands to gain from this so-called "cap and trade bill".

What about the 44 Democrats that voted no?

SHOVE IT, WAXMAN!! AL YOU DEMOCRATS KNOW IS TAX, TAX, TAX .

Waxman, your a political hack at best. How many of you even read the bill, if there was one even on the house floor when it was being voted on. My guess is ZERO read the bill. And what happened to letting the American public view any bills coming up for a vote 5 days prior vote?????? just another lie from the Democrates. Then you present the bill on a Friday when people are not paying attention and then add an additional 300+ pages iin the cover of night that no one has time to read. Bunch of snake oil salesman is all you are. You are not listening to the American public. You are doing whatever you please and passing it off as your looking out for the American people. Waxman, you forget you work for us, we do not work for you. Say good bye to your job in 2010 and all the rest of the corrupt congress that voted for this fraud of bill. The American people will have the last word. Come hell or high water.

Whatever happened to the days when the argument was over ideology and not personal. I can accept the fact that Democrats and Republicans don't see eye-to-eye on issues like this, but why can't Waxman just say that the Republicans see things differently and here is where we stand. When did it get to the point that each opposing side wants bad things to happen to America? Can't we all agree that we all WANT good things for this country, but have differing ideas on how to achieve that?

You would think that the country would look at the mess California is in and remember that it is Waxman, Pelosi and Boxer who all come from the State that is in the most financial trouble because they have made promises that the people cannot afford to keep.

I am still reading the insane bill. I'll bet the same can not be said for these dumb @#$%& in Congress!

The Idiot’s Guide to Destroying the Economy: a 12-Step Program Perfected by your Democrat Majority since 2006:

Think destroying the mighty economy of the United States is too big a job for you? Relax. Anyone can do it. A friend sent me a handy-dandy no-fuss 12-step program for wreaking financial havoc among even the world’s most advanced economies. I adapt it below for your edification. Your congressmen probably already have a copy. The White House certainly does. But you might want to print it out in case some opportunity for spreading unhappiness comes your way:

1. Since investors and the market in general hate uncertainty, have a vast array of conflicting ad hoc policy decisions so as to create uncertainty everywhere.

2. Transfer money from those who create sustainable jobs to those who create unsustainable jobs, e.g., the government

3. Promise to invest money in things that will enhance the country’s infrastructure, such as roads and internet access, but then practice bait and switch on a breathtaking scale, so the effort is swamped with pork for pet projects dear to Democrats

4. A sufficiently generous larding of pork can help ensure the destruction of bi-partisanship, so squandering the initial good will is definitely a very good move. After all, it’s hard to get things done when you’ve alienated people whose help you need.

5. Undermine the ability of those who create jobs by increasing their taxes so there’s less money available for investment.

6. While you’re at it, offer to spread the income around by raising taxes, in the process, making it clear to those who work hard, invest in their educations, take risks, save, and delay gratification that they will see their money go to those who do not do these things.

7. Encourage class warfare. Divide the populace and destroy cooperation, thus encouraging backlash and creating paralyzing polarization.

8. Talk up protectionism, since the beggar-thy-neighbor approach has such a long and vigorous history of encouraging depression.

9. Scare people with talk of economic catastrophe. You can backpeddle later, but the initial good work of helping people lose confidence should have a lasting impact.

10. Print money on a scale that will insure inflation in the future. Print it on a scale that will make people not want to hold U.S. debt without staggering interest on that debt, if they’re willing to hold U.S. government debt at all.

11. Instead of allowing hopeless institutions to go bankrupt, pour vast amounts of money into them, prolonging the pain and running up the cost while only delaying the inevitable.

12. Burden future generations with unprecedented amounts of debt so that the economy you ruined today stays ruined tomorrow.

My friend stresses that this list is not exhaustive. Ask your elected representatives for further tips. Or write to the White House: they have loads of ideas for making things worse. But be patient. Ruining the greatest economy the world has ever seen is not something you can do overnight. But it’s amazing, isn’t it, how much progress the President has made in less than two months? Five days before the election, he told his followers that they were that many days away “from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Poor things. They thought he intended to make America stronger. Fat chance.

Dumb, dumber and dumbest:: Waxman, Waters, Pelosi on the national level and a Legislature that just does not get it. Their mob mentality and arrogance is beyond belief. They will NOT listen to citizens and taxpayers as they destroy the state and the country as they rob and loot all of us for their own power..
We have some of the most arrogant fools in the country out here that impact the whole country.

Incompetence, corruption, negligence and absolute stupidity should land all of them in a prison cell with Madoff!

Waxman, you lying, unAmerican, POS weasel.
Yo expect blind support for a bill that was introduced to combat naturally occurring cycles in the Earths climate?

When WE, THE PEOPLE, take our country back and kick all of you bums out of Congress YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE! We'll try to get you a cell between Pelosi and Obama, how's that sound you ignorant moron?

Waxman and his fellow climate change colleagues are the only ones rooting against the country by raising energy costs, thereby helping to delay any economic recovery. This whole cap and trade sytem is nothing more than a fraudulent scheme to raise taxes. And in case he hasn't noticed, the earth has been getting cooler the last 5 years.

Pelosi.Reid,Frank,Dodd,Waxman,Rangel, etc, pose a clear and present danger to the United States.
They are enemys.

It would seem to me that any bill, which that makes it more difficult to sell your house, works against all Americans and that is one of the items included in that bill. If environmental inspectors don't approve your house or if the appliances are too old then you cannot sell it until the house has been brought up to their standards.

Government 1 - People 0

This is so Orwellian, looking at the comments most people realize the sham AGW and this tax bill is, yet the democrats continue to push for legislation whose soul purpose is to wreck the economic system and wealth creation that made this nation the greatest in the world, an economic system that defeated Germany, and economic system that ended the reign of communist Russia, and economic system that has created more wealth, and done more to end poverty, than any other.

It is all about punishing one class of wealth while creating it for the politicians (crooks) in Washington and their cronies.

VOTE EM ALL OUT IN 2010

There is no global warming crisis. It does not exist. This is a straw horse. This is about CONTROL, not governing. How on earth can Americans sit on the sidelines and watch the end of democracy, capitalism, and individual freedoms.

The entire liberal Democratic machine in Washington wants nothing more than to Rahm through as many hair brained ideas into legislation as fast as posssible before the populace finally turns on them. They have not a clue what is good for this country nor how to achieve it. The populace should have the ability to recall these people from the top down, including Obama the socialist.

This stupid bill uses NON-SCIENCE to fix a NON-PROBLEM. Democrats think businesses are BAD and the GOVERNMENT is GOOD. This bill will create MILLIONAIRE inside operators that have positioned themselves for to EXPLOIT this farse. Al Gore can just taste the MILLIONS.

Take a peak at Waxman's roll in 'Bigger, Faster, Stronger' to get a better grasp of his level of intellect. It was one interview that puts him in proper perspective.

Well, if NostrilDamus said it, it must be true.

You know politicains in general, and Democrats in particular, NEVER LIE!

Waxman is a fool - plain and simple. Global warming is a farce and Henry, Al and the other thieves know it.

Do we all recall how, during the dark days of George Bush, we were all lectured by the likes of Hillary Clinton and Al Gore about how it was just AWFUL that Republicans were accusing Democrats of being disloyal Americans because they disagreed with President Bush?

Remember that shrill speech Hillary gave?

My, how times have changed.

We now have Waxman lecturing us about how disagreeing with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid/Waxman agenda is the equivalent of "rooting against the country".

I voted for change not this. It is Mr. Waxman that is putting a scientific thing in the realm of politics. This is a hoax, because if we were to believe Al Gore we have six years left. What is cap and trade going to stop, by his theory. people do not offer three a.m. amendments to something this important. (to them). It is a tax plain and simple and is not a republican democrat issue,but a one world government issue which Obama, and Waxman want. Mt.St. Helen's released more co2 and sulfer, than all of mankind up to that point. That is fact. This is flying because we are too lazy to do anything about it. It defies logic and you can kiss jobs in my state Ohio goodbye.

wow, definitely not a face for H.D.

This global warming scam is going to be the biggest hoax in the history of the world. The absolute arrogance of this congress to think they can change the weather is staggering. The entire congress with the exception of Ron Paul and maybe a handful of others should be impeached and tried for treason.

It is to the point now that when any of these liberals speak or comment on something, the exact 180 degree opposite is true. I swear, try it for yourself, it is true! Test this theory on any statement by any liberal since the the Messiah was elected and you will see for yourself.

Red Mom Wrote:
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> I am horrified at the vote on Friday. I have
> contacted my congressmen and senators, both with
> this and back when they voted on the TARP. I get
> back bromide filled letters about doing what is
> best even though a consensus is not possible. I am
> tired of being told by liberals that we are 'tea
> baggers' and that we have been represented, and
> just because we don't like it, we should die.
> Well, guess what? My representatives are not
> representing me. No one is representing the future
> generations that will be taxed into slavery by the
> government. That is not representation before
> taxation. None of those in congress even knew what
> was in the bill, and all those statists had the
> nerve to clap when it passed, in spite of what
> those they supposedly represent wanted.
>
> It's time to vote all the statists out! It's time
> to overwhelm them. Even if you can only donate a
> dollar to their opposition, or better yet, the
> most constitutionally grounded candidate, it's
> time. Collect pennies from college students. It
> all adds up, and will be millions if everyone can
> contribute even a little.
>
> Donate to the opposition in California elections-
> give and support anyone who opposes Pelosi, Boxer
> and Waxman. Give to whoever opposes Frank, Dodd,
> Reid.
>
> It's time for the 'Silent Majority' to roar and
> let those sell outs feel our wrath.
>
> It's time for AMERICANS to take back our country
> one penny and one representative at a time.
>
> We cannot allow this to pass out of the Senate. It
> is time to march on the 4th of July. It's time for
> us to force our representatives to account for
> their actions and pay for selling us out to these
> Dictators.

It is worse than that RM. There are too many in this country that have representation without taxation. The majority of people in this country pay little or no taxes yet they demand accountability from their representatives.

Perhaps if we give one person 1 vote, however IF you payed income taxes, your vote is weighed in proportion to every thousand you send off to Washington. Sure Bill Gates would have a more powerful vote, but he has more at stake than a leech living in a Katrina trailer.

John Harber Wrote:
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> I've been out of work since these a-holes passed
> TARP, and the way things are going here in
> California, it may be a long time before I can
> even get a low-paying job because of people like
> Obama, Pelosi, Reid and that bald-headed hairy
> nostril king Henry Waxman!


hang in there.

One part of the bill states that we will all have to have an energy study performed on our house BEFORE selling it. How much is that .... maybe $500. Oh yeah, we also have to bring any energy issues up to code BEFORE selling our house. That sucks for those of us who have older houses.... windows, doors, poorly insulated walls, furnaces, etc.

Also, this only applies here in the USA......so what difference will this make in the world?

Lets invest in business to get breakthroughs in clean energy - it is our only way out. Lets use AMERICAN OIL, use profits to fund energy research. Taxing us will only kill whats left of our economy. Stop letting both parties divide us, heck, when you get down to it, they are not even different.

Global Warming is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated. Most of the people lying about it are doing so for the chance to make obscene amounts of money (right Mr. Gore$$$). The science and the scientists are being ignored. I lament the fact that Journalism is dead in this country.

What a phookin arsshool.....
Is it just me or does he look like a RAT.

Since no one else has asked, I will....

How many trees were sacrificed so that every member of Congress, and the Senate could have a copy of this 1200 page travesty?

Talk about a hypocrite.

If CO2 (hot air) is destroying the world we should close down Washington DC. That is all these liberals idiots produces.

Red Mom Wrote:
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> esorcire wrote:
> "It is worse than that RM. There are too many in
> this country that have representation without
> taxation. The majority of people in this country
> pay little or no taxes yet they demand
> accountability from their representatives.
>
> Perhaps if we give one person 1 vote, however IF
> you payed income taxes, your vote is weighed in
> proportion to every thousand you send off to
> Washington. Sure Bill Gates would have a more
> powerful vote, but he has more at stake than a
> leech living in a Katrina trailer."
>
> I am all for one vote for anyone over 18 who
> actually PAYS taxes, and does not receive any
> public aid. Better yet, if you receive more than
> 30% of your income from the government, either
> state or local, you don't get to vote. If you pay
> taxes at all on your income, you can vote.
>
> In my dream world, we would do away with employer
> controlled taxation, and everyone would have to
> file their own quarterly taxes just like small
> businesses. My husband and I own a small business,
> and we will fire ten employees if the Obama tax
> plan goes into effect. I know ten employees is not
> many, but it will matter to our employees and
> their families. It will matter to our vendors with
> whom we spent $500,000 a year on inventory.
>
> I have never been depressed in my life, but
> watching these meglomaniacs do whatever they want
> is really depressing me. They did and promised
> whatever they had to in order to get what they
> want. They make the Sopranos look like amatures
> who were just playing around.

I do not own a business, but my friend does, and thy pols in his state saw fit to raise their taxes. They are going to have a layoff and he said he is going to look in the parking lots and those that have Obama stickers on their cars are going to be the first to go.

I said good for him, how better to show that elections have consequences.

Henry Waxman is one of the most contemptible, disgusting people on the planet. He has some nerve accusing people who disagree with this abomination of a bill of being unpatriotic. It is not unpatriotic to insist that they 1) tell us just exactly what is in a bill of this magnitude and 2) to actually read and study it before voting for it. He is the poster child for the left wing of the Democratic party; berating anyone who disagrees with him while being entirely incapable of listening to other points of view and ideas. As long as he pleases his enviro-friends, he could care less about the rest of us. And we all know he won't suffer from his own actions. What a piece of work he is!

Gooood grief. If this idiot Waxman would read, including his own bills, it would be obvious climate change is a naturally occuring phenomen. Read "sunspots". I wonder if global warming was going on when the vikings discovered Greenland AND not only was it green, they are just now uncovering some of the earliest sites UNDER the ice. Think maybe they were blowing as much hot air as Waxman???? OHHH, would Waxman explain to me how Canada was under 200 feet of ice about 14,000 years ago? Thank GOD for global warming, eh?

How much is Al Gore paying this idiot?

Ohio Wrote:
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> Take a peak at Waxman's roll in 'Bigger, Faster,
> Stronger' to get a better grasp of his level of
> intellect. It was one interview that puts him in
> proper perspective.


everyone needs to watch this. he knew he was going to be doing this interview and still didn't know the facts. this guy is an absolute idiot. did "brian" tell him that global warming was bad or did this guy research it for himself? i think we all know the answer. this piece of garbage and the rest like him need to go.

Is everyone on this site a moron? It seems like everyone making comments on this site is incapable of rational discourse. No wonder our country is going to hell in a handbasket. You fellows should go back to school and learn how to engage in civilized discourse.

I don't know why I continue to marvel at the level of stupidity of our elected officals. Espousing a bill that they haven't read and sticking the populace with consequences far beyond their puny brains to envision. Climate change my aunt Fanny. We need all elected officials to pass a standardized intelligence test before allowing them to run for office. Rep. Waxman is a moron. He should rent out his nose as a two car garage. At least, then he would have something in his head other than psudo science.

the only good thing about waxman, pelosi, waters, and many of the other ultra liberals is that they are getting up there in years. hopefully, soon, they'll drop dead of old age and be replaced with people with some common sense. god knows, they will never willingly vote these idiots out of office in CA. the only good to come of the CA economic problems is that it is forcing people to leave the state and reducing the number of representatives that CA has (that is unless ACORN works some magic with the census).

beary Wrote:
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> What about the 700 scientists who say it's not
> manmade?

Uhhhh...let's make that 31,000 scientist who call the global warming hoax.....a hoax.....

More than 31,000 scientists across the U.S. – including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields such as atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties – have signed a petition rejecting "global warming," the assumption that the human production of greenhouse gases is damaging Earth's climate.

How is his character attack any different than Bush saying "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists." This kind of BS has no place on either side of the aisle. This bill is the environmental equivalent of the Patriot Act, and easily more damaging to people's basic rights and ignorant of the Constitution. The Patriot Act passed in a crisis and House members couldn't see the full text before voting -- SAME THING HERE. It's absolutely criminal. If they really cared about green energy, they'd have incentives FOR solar, wind, etc instead of taxing the living crap out of people so they don't have money left over to invest in green tech in the first place. Unbelievably stupid.

Waxman is such an @#$%&

4Q Waxman.

If ANY body is rooting against country it is you and your band of despicable communists.

Put your vote where your mouth is you dirtbag. Vote to eliminate ALL the roadblocks against nuclear power. Immediately begin a WPA/NRA project to build 400 nuclear power plants. Most of the licensed sites are already designed for another reactor or two. Populate these. In 8 years we are completely and 100% energy self sufficient WITH NON POLLUTING CO2 EMMISSION FREE POWER.

Drill. Mandate ALL vehicles purchased by the federal government be dual source fuel, i.e. gasoline and natural gas/propane. Once the nukes are built, divert ALL the natural gas to transportation and tell the bloody Arabs, Russians, Nigerians and tinpot South American dictators to drink their crude oil.

But no. You conteptable @#$%& politicians only know how to grandstand. It is YOU who hates America as proof is your Kyoto Accord and all derivative legislation such as Cap and Trade.

You @#$%&.

What about the 44 democrats who voted against the bill?

Global Warming is being proven false more so every day. Why do the Democrats find comfort in manipulating the public!?!?!

CONGRESS SHOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO VOTE ON A BILL WITHOUT BEING GIVE ENOUGH TIME TO READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOORAY for Boehner!! I watched every minute of his reading the LUNACY that was dumped at 3:09 AM ... It IS a LOAD of @#$%&!!! Also, what happened to everyone's being able to read every bill 48 hours in advance??? Obama does not hesitate to lie about anything and everything.

Liberals are destroying our country. Waxman, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Reid ... OBAMA ...destroyers of freedom and liberty. Our forefathers must be spinning in their graves! NONE of the left seems to have ANY CLUE what our Constitution means and are only interested in obtaining and maintaining power, citizenry be @#$%&.

Million Man March on Washington? I'm there! If we Conservatives do not at least match the intensity & energy of the liberals - including the fraudulent criminal entities like ACORN, etc. - then we won't be able to stop them. (We also need to embark on a huge campaign to EDUCATE the mass number of ignoramuses who voted them in.)

Re: Mike Puskas' comment: I don't know that this is "beyond both parties." The trouble with Bush was that he was acting more like a liberal. If the left wants to "blame Bush" (as you know they do) then what they are failing to acknowledge is that he was SPENDING, SPENDING, SPENDING and ACTING LIKE THEM. True Conservatism does NOT endorse what has taken place.

Re: willdo8 - Pshaw. Wow, how intelligent & civilized, hypocrite & troll.

Incredulous Wrote:
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> willd08 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Is everyone on this site a moron? It seems like
> > everyone making comments on this site is
> incapable
> > of rational discourse. No wonder our country is
> > going to hell in a handbasket. You fellows
> should
> > go back to school and learn how to engage in
> > civilized discourse.
>
> Waxman is a grandstanding lying politician. The
> ONLY near to short term fix for our energy problem
> is nuclear power. With appx. 100 nuclear plants,
> we are generating 20% of the country's electrical
> needs.
>
> Build another 400 plants. Many of the 100 are
> already designed and even permitted for additional
> reactors. Immediately build them. Each
> construction project will employ 200,000 tradesmen
> and technical folks. The result would be that we
> could shut every single coal and gas fired power
> plant in the country. This would reduce our CO2
> emmissions to nearly zero.
>
> The natural gas could then be diverted for use as
> a transportation fuel. Already, there are
> millions of private and governmental fleet
> vehicles that run on compressed gas. Mandate all
> federally purchased cars be dual fuel, i.e.
> gasoline and natural gas.
>
> In 6-8 years we would be completely indpendent on
> energy from foreign countries AND have reduced our
> CO2 emmissions (and radiation emissions such as
> thorium, radium, and uraniam) that SPEW by the ton
> from buring coal in coal powered plants.
>
> Every knowledgable scientist and engineer knows
> this is a fact.
>
> @#$%& 4KING @#$%& politicians like Waxman are
> just contemptable America haters.
____

For sure! Isn't Waxman from the bankrupt state of California? They have BILLIONS of dollars in oil with in 11 miles and yet will not drill for their own resources. I guess it is better to steal from other people than do anything for themselves. Oh, wait, I forgot that was the lefty way.

Waxoff and the Dems have pulled a Harold Hill con on the USA; They're pushing an unneeded solution to a non-existent problem. All consumers, rich, poor and in-between will pay much higher prices for goods, services and energy because the producers and providers will pass their additional costs on to the consumer. I don't think the Obama supporters will be expecting this kind of change as they're being bent over a log and told to 'squeal like a pig'. The good thing is that this might anger enough people and the bums will be voted out in 2010.

Waxman, you are an arrogant hog-nosed POS. The people were voting for YOUR failure. Mark my words- if you and that @#$%& up bunch in Con-gress continue to take food out of families mouths for your scams.................

To all here- get out and work to remove these fools from their seats, then get people in who are going to repeal all this freedom-denying legislation.

Hey Waxman, trying to score points with the Pelosi Obama administration? What did you promise them to get Dingell knocked out and a pathetic Hollywood dope like you put up? Plus lose the mustache. You look like a complete fool.

In Waxman's world, if your opinion differs from his, you must be an enemy of the state, of the world, and, most of all, an enemy of Henry Waxman. He is a Napoleonic caricature whose only goal is amassing more power. His primary redeeming value is that his flat balding head is a suitable surface upon which to rest a beer can.

How he manages reelection every two years is one of the unanswered miracles of democracy. Most likely, his electoral success is the result of the shameful public education/indoctrination of his constituency. Mencken was right about voters: “The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.” He was also right about politicians: “If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”

Let's all eat the evil oil companies!