The Political Fish

It will according to Lord Christopher Monckton, in a speech given at Bethel University in St. Paul Minnesota this past week. The speech was given at a dinner to discuss the UN Climate Change Treaty. Monckton, formerly an advisor to Margeret Thatcher, has become one of the foremost skeptics of the global warming scam, and has repeatedly challenged former Vice President Al Gore to debate his “findings” on climate change. The former VP has always run scared and refused to debate.

The 160-page Copenhagen Climate Treaty has been distributed to negotiators from 192 countries and will be discussed at a summit in Copenhagen Denmark in December of this year. Based on a framework of the Kyoto Protocol (of which the US was never a signatory) this treaty will cede US sovereignty on a number of fronts, and provide for a redistribution of wealth on an international scale. This will be based on a Global Climate debt, as outlined in the treaty. It essentially will hold the United States and other large industrialized nations more responsible for the “impending doom” that is global warming, and will force us to not only pay for our own climate transgressions, but trickle down to where we are paying for third-world up and comers to make sure they do not contribute to more global warming. Check out the speech from Lord Monckton at Bethel University.

Partial transcript provided by Dakota Voices, many thanks!

At Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed — Your president will sign it. Most of the third-world countries will sign it because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regimes around the world, like the European Union, will rubber-stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.

I have read that treaty and what it says is this: That a world government is going to be created. The word, government, actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity.

The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third-world countries in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, a ‘climate debt,’ because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t and we’ve been screwing up the climate. We haven’t been screwing up the climate, but that’s the line.

And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

How many of you think that the word election or democracy or vote or ballot occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right. It doesn’t appear once.

So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement and took over Greenpeace so that my friends who founded it left within a year because they’d captured it. Now the apotheosis is at hand.

They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He’s going to sign. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel Peace Laureate. Of course, he’ll sign it.

And the trouble is this: If that treaty is signed, your Constitution says that it takes precedence over your Constitution. And you can’t resile from that treaty unless you get the agreement from all the other states, parties. And because you’ll be the biggest paying country, they’re not going to let you out.”

So thank you America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy and your prosperity away forever and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back again.

That is how serious it is. I have read the treaty. I have seen the stuff about government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or no.

But I think it is here, here in your great nation which I so love and I so admire. It is here that, perhaps — at this 11th hour, at the 59th minute and 59th second — you will rise up and you will stop your president from signing that dreadful treaty. That purposeless treaty for there is no trouble with the climate — and even if there were, economically speaking, there’s nothing we can do about it.”

So I end by saying to you the words that Winston Churchill addressed to your president in the darkest hour before the dawn of freedom in the Second World War. He quoted from your great poet, Longfellow: “Sail on, oh Ship of State. Sail on, oh Union, strong and great. Humanity, with all it’s fears, with all the hopes of future years, is hanging, breathless, on thy fate.” Thank you.

 

US Presidents in the past have resisted signing these type of treaties, due to their inherent nature of stepping on the sovereignty of our nation. This treaty is no different from previous attempts, as it will establish what is known as the Copenhagen Climate Facility, which will be sort of a de-facto government which will oversee the economies of the signatory nations, as well as collect the money for redistribution. It will become essentially a world governmental order, under the guise of saving the world from climate disaster.

Below is an excerpt from the treaty discussing the Global Carbon Budget, which will be heavily financed by the United States. The full document can be found on the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) website, as well as other summaries and conclusionary documents. This website is for a group of enviro-wackos, so take what is read with a grain of salt.

 

IV The Global Carbon Budget

Scientific developments, which build upon the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), confirm that there is no time for delay in reducing global emissions rapidly if dangerous and disruptive climatic changes are to be prevented. All countries, based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, must reduce or limit emissions of greenhouse gases if a rapid reduction of global emissions is to be achieved. In the end, countries need to agree on the total maximum amount of global greenhouse gases (in carbon dioxide equivalents) that can be released into the atmosphere at specific times. This will define the likelihood of staying below agreed temperature limits. This ‘agreed atmospheric space’ can then be translated into a series of global and/or national carbon limits or budgets for specific periods of time, and the additional finance and technology needed to stay within those limits identified.

It is proposed that the global carbon budget approach be used as the basis for outlining the overall mitigation ambition required of the Copenhagen Agreement, in order to chart a course that ensures a good likelihood of preventing the worst impacts.¹

Recent research shows that it is likely that if emissions are more than 25 % above 2000 levels in 2020 there would be greater than a 50 % chance of exceeding 2° C in this century, even if emissions were thereafter reduced to low levels by 2050.² A budget for the year 2020 that brings global emissions back to 1990 levels has been selected. This would rapidly move the world onto an emissions reduction pathway that would have a likely chance of peaking warming below 2° C. A higher level of emissions in 2020 would require significantly faster rates of reduction in the period afterwards until 2050 to keep within the same level of certainty of staying below 2° C.

Hence:

• The annual global carbon budget in 2020 from all sources of greenhouse gases (not counting those controlled by the Montréal Protocol) would be no higher than 36.1 Gt CO₂e, roughly equal to 1990 levels, and would need to be reduced to 7.2 Gt CO₂e in 2050, in other words by 80 % below 1990 levels.

• To keep the annual reduction rates between 2010 and 2050 achievable, total global greenhouse gas emissions would need to peak in the 2013-2017 commitment period and decline thereafter.

• To achieve this, Annex I fossil fuel and industrial greenhouse gas emissions would have to drop from present levels rapidly and be almost fully phased out by 2050.

Deforestation emissions would need to be reduced globally by 75 % or more by 2020. Non-Annex I fossil fuel and industrial greenhouse gas emissions would need to peak prior 2020 before beginning to decline, which underlines the large scale MRV support required to make such a peaking possible.

These are the physical emission reductions needed, based on the assumption that a high likelihood of staying below two degrees Celsius warming is wanted. However, the physical reductions described do not automatically equate to be allocations or a legal responsibility. Similarly, how the costs of achieving these physical emission reductions should be shared among industrialized and developing countries is a separate issue. These two issues – legal responsibility and cost sharing – are addressed below.

All countries must contribute to preventing dangerous climate change. However, the largest share of responsibility for staying within the carbon budget rests with industrialized countries, who should fulfill this responsibility by reducing emissions at home whilst enabling and supporting developing countries to develop in a low-carbon manner. Given that the remaining atmospheric space has been constricted as a result of the excessive use of fossil fuels by industrialized countries to date, significant measurable, reportable and verifiable (MRV) financial, technological and capacity building support will be required from industrialized countries to ensure that developing countries have the means to stay within such a carbon constrained budget and to begin to remedy the historical inequities.

1 A detailed explanation for the carbon budget approach and the assumptions selected is given in a separate briefing, including an explanation for the separation for REDD and industrial emissions.

2 Meinshausen, M. et al. Nature 458, 1158-1162 (2009).

So the question becomes, will President Obama sign and ratify a treaty that will essentially hand over sovereignty of our economy and overall way of life?  According to the US Constitution (does anyone in Washington actually read this anymore?) Article 2 Section 2 ” He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur”.

Write your Senator and put a stop to this treaty. Much like the Kyoto Protocall, we can agree to do our part to help this climate “calamity” but should not ratify any treaty that will give over control of our budget and economy to an international body established and run by third-world despots and other countries that hate our way of life.

President Obama has shown his sympathies to the communist ideology of redistribution of wealth, and leveling the playing field for one and all. The question becomes whether or not he will be willing to do it on an international scale and further weaken our nation.

For more information on the Copenhagen Climate Conference, below is a list of links.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/copenhagen

http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/climate_carbon_energy/climate_deal/?166141

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/10/un-climate-treaty-in-december-2009-a-threat-to-us-sovereignty/

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5il_b-YGcJJwKcYfHcmKkXor1_V5A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Climate_Council

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6262768/China-US-is-sabotaging-Copenhagen-climate-treaty-by-changing-Kyoto-rules.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/susanwatts/2009/09/a_quiet_bombshell_on_copenhage.html

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2009-09/11/content_8683944.htm

This is precious. Apparently you can add victim complex to his long list of undesirable characteristics for a government leader.

From the Washington Post via Pajamas Media.

Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, resigned Saturday, following weeks of pressure from the right and a flurry of revelations about his past statements.

“I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today,” Jones said in a resignation letter released by the CEQ late Saturday.

“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide,” he said.

“I have been inundated with calls — from across the political spectrum — urging me to ’stay and fight,’” he continued. “But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

“It has been a great honor to serve my country and my President in this capacity. I thank everyone who has offered support and encouragement. I am proud to have been able to make a contribution to the clean energy future. I will continue to do so, in the months and years ahead.”

Breaking News on this early Sunday morning.

White House Special Advisor for “Green Jobs” aka green jobs czar Van Jones has resigned.

According to Fox News:

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.

Van Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs,” has been linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the Sept. 11 terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans.

Fox apparently decided to softball him on this report, as Jones statements have been much more than the derogatory term he used for Republicans, and his link to the 9/11 Truther website. Jones is an avowed communist, and an extreme radical leftist cut from the mold of Bill Ayers and their ilk. His inflammatory remarks about this country, and his own beliefs beg one serious question.

What was he doing in the White House in the first place?

A simple look at the past of Van Jones is not hard to find. His beliefs have been put out for public consumption for many years. Lets not pretend that President Obama did not know exactly who Van Jones was, and still is.

One thing he definetely is. He is no longer working in the White House pushing his black liberation theology, communist ideology, and eco-capitalist economic policy on this country.

Bye bye Van, you will not be missed.

Glenn Beck continues to expose this radical leftist, who is a self avowed communist and anarchist.

Van Jones is the Obama administration’s Green Jobs Czar. Another stooge of the Obama’s administrations pointed agenda toward social justice and socialism, all in the name of environmentalism.

Critics say Beck is just attacking Mr. Jones because of the boycott being led by Color of Change. Well, the boycott is actually a response to Glenn Beck who has been exposing these “czars” in the White House, since President Obama has been subverting the Constitution by appointing these men. You truly know the man’s agenda when you look at who he is surrounding himself with. Men like Van Jones.

As one would expect, the lefty blogosphere has been going nuts on Beck for his hard work in exposing this man for who he truly is. Media Matters and AlterNet  have put out some particularly inaccurate pieces. Beck has however been using Van Jones’ own words to show who he really is. Here are some excerpts. These are from March of 2009.

VAN JONES: This movement is deeper than a solar panel! Deeper than a solar panel! Don’t stop there! Don’t stop there! We’re gonna change the whole system! We’re gonna change the whole thing. We’re not gonna put a new battery in a broken system. We want a new system. We want a new system!

JONES: If all we do is take out the dirty power system, the dirty power generation in a system, and just replace it with some clean stuff, put a solar panel on top of this system. When we don’t deal with how we are consuming water. We don’t deal with how we’re treating our other sister and brother species. We don’t deal with toxins. We don’t deal with the way we treat each other. If that’s not a part of this movement, let me tell you what you’ll have: You’ll have solar-powered bulldozers, solar-powered buzz saws, and biofuel bombers, and we’ll be fighting wars over lithium for the batteries instead of oil for the engines and we’ll still have a dead planet. This movement is deeper than a solar panel! Deeper than a solar panel! Don’t stop there! Don’t stop there! We’re gonna change the whole system! We’re gonna change the whole thing!

JONES: What about our immigrant sisters and brothers? What about our immigrant sisters and brothers? What about people who come here from all around the world who we’re willing to have out in the field, with poison being sprayed on them, poison being sprayed on them because we have the wrong agricultural system. And we’re willing to poison them and poison the earth to put food on our table, but we don’t want to give them rights and we don’t want to give them dignity and we don’t want to give them respect?

Van Jones radical organizations and affilliations also give reason for pause. From the American Spectator:

Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), the revolutionary group formed by self-described “communist” and “rowdy black nationalist” Van Jones, held a vigil in Oakland, California, “mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world” on the night after Sept. 11, 2001.

The reason this is important is because Van Jones is now President Obama’s green jobs czar. He does not appear to have distanced himself from his past communist activities and is now part of the Obama administration’s push to turn Sept. 11 into a National Day of Service focused on the promotion of the radical environmentalist agenda.

Jones is also the co-founder of Color of Change, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Green for All, and of course as mentioned the now defunct STORM.

I will continue trying to dig through mountains of information on this man and continue adding to this page with updates.

Updates:

Check out the Gateway Pundit (who I might add is doing all the leg-work that MSM won’t do.) GP exposes the Van Jones link to the 9/11 truther movement.

Check out this link as well. Van Jones apparently doesn’t have much to say about our nations police officers.

Also on the board at the War Times, an anti-American, pro-jihad left wing radical hate filled monthly. Van Jones is quite the standup guy.

The truth finally is coming out about the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, who was set free on August 20th on compassionate grounds. It was stated that Al-Megrahi was dying of cancer, and was allowed to return to his homeland to pass away near his family.

Well, as it turns out there was much more to it. From the British publication Times Online.

Gordon Brown’s government made the decision after discussions between Libya and BP over a multi-million-pound oil exploration deal had hit difficulties. These were resolved soon afterwards.

The letters were sent two years ago by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to Kenny MacAskill, his counterpart in Scotland, who has been widely criticised for taking the formal decision to permit Megrahi’s release.

The correspondence makes it plain that the key decision to include Megrahi in a deal with Libya to allow prisoners to return home was, in fact, taken in London for British national interests.

Edward Davey, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said: “This is the strongest evidence yet that the British government has been involved for a long time in talks over al-Megrahi in which commercial considerations have been central to their thinking.”

Apparently, the Libyan government used Al-Megrahi as a bargaining chip in the deal for oil.

On December 19, 2007, Straw wrote to MacAskill announcing that the UK government was abandoning its attempt to exclude Megrahi from the prisoner transfer agreement, citing the national interest.

In a letter leaked by a Whitehall source, he wrote: “I had previously accepted the importance of the al-Megrahi issue to Scotland and said I would try to get an exclusion for him on the face of the agreement. I have not been able to secure an explicit exclusion.

“The wider negotiations with the Libyans are reaching a critical stage and, in view of the overwhelming interests for the United Kingdom, I have agreed that in this instance the [prisoner transfer agreement] should be in the standard form and not mention any individual.”

Within six weeks of the government climbdown, Libya had ratified the BP deal. The prisoner transfer agreement was finalised in May this year, leading to Libya formally applying for Megrahi to be transferred to its custody.

Saif Gadaffi, the colonel’s son, has insisted that negotiation over the release of Megrahi was linked with the BP oil deal: “The fight to get the [transfer] agreement lasted a long time and was very political, but I want to make clear that we didn’t mention Mr Megrahi.

“At all times we talked about the [prisoner transfer agreement]. It was obvious we were talking about him. We all knew that was what we were talking about.

“People should not get angry because we were talking about commerce or oil. We signed an oil deal at the same time. The commerce and oil deals were all with the [prisoner transfer agreement].”

A shameful display of politics as usual by our friends across the pond.  While the majority of the passengers on board that Pan Am flight were Americans, there were also a large number of Brits and Scots. I wonder how this is playing in the minds and hearts of everyday Brits who have watched their government sell their souls for the almighty dollar, a dollar that is coming from no-less that Libyan strongman Muamar Ghadafi.

Now I have heard of the UN Oil for Food Programme…not quite sure I have heard of the Terrorist for Oil Programme. Shame to the British government for putting business interests ahead of your citizens and the lives taken from us all.

The Cash for Clunkers program has been a rousing success in its first 4 days of existence. Americans are going out to the showrooms in force to get their hands on a new vehicle and trade in their old one.

For all of the failure that has been associated with this administrations attempts to stimulate the economy, this should be a lesson to the administration moving forward. Throwing money toward government agencies does not provide a boost. Putting taxpayer dollars back in the hands of the taxpayers, and even adding in a creative incentive to purchase works every time.

Cash for Clunkers, or its official name “Car Allowance Rebate System” has generated so much business in auto showrooms across the country this week, that the program was in danger of losing its funding. Americans went out so fast and furious to buy cars that they almost ran the whole thing out of money. Congress stepped up and passed an emergency measure to pump even more money into the program, and believe it or not…not adding any extra to the budget to do so. They were able to agree to transfer money from an existing energy loan program into this program.

Americans have spoken with their wallets. And the government underestimated the demand with their original projections. The program was designed to give a boost to the auto industry, with what was projected to be around 250,000 vehicles, and it seems to have done exactly that. For those who heard the news about the program being suspended, Robert Gibbs said today that with the new infusion of cash into the program, that it will continue.

The lesson should be learned by Obama. Its simple economics. This program will stimulate and industry that has been decimated and taken over, it will take older energy inefficient cars of the road, and it indirectly puts the taxpayers dollars back in their hands. Congratulations to the administration for getting this one right. Here is to hoping that they have learned the economic stimulus lesson that the Political Fish has been sounding off on for months now. Economic growth occurs when the taxpayers money is put back in the taxpayers wallet.

Works every time…might go do a little car shopping tommorow!! Support the American automakers, and keep me gainfully employed…check out the 2010 Mustang!

Fred Smith, President of Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes an excellent piece in the Washington Times over the cap and trade fiasco that passed through the House, and will shortly be on the docket in the Senate…read the whole thing here.

Conservative activists are angry at eight Republican members of the House of Representatives for voting in favor of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), which passed the House June 26.

They are right to be angry, but their outrage is misplaced. With the exception of New Jersey’s Rep. Christopher H. Smith, these so-called RINOs (Republicans in name only) represent districts that voted for President Obama after he campaigned on a promise to fight global warming at any cost. As such, they were only following the misguided will of their constituents.

Indeed, economic conservatives need to look beyond party lines to find the real “cap-and-traitors.” To be a traitor, one has to betray his or her constituents. By that definition, many treacherous votes were cast June 26 for ACES, also known as the Waxman-Markey bill. The legislation is a compendium of harebrained environmentalist policies designed to make energy more expensive and force people to emit fewer greenhouse gases, thought to cause global warming.

And one more money quote…

Clearly, this bill is all pain and no gain. When the pain hits, citizens should remember who imposed it on them.

Should we expect “An Inconvenient Truth” the sequel soon? Global warming alarmism has had a steady leader for the past decade, Al Gore. But the new face of trying to scare the world into abandoning industry and capitalism is emerging on the scene. The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles.

The Prince was speaking to a group of industrialists and enviromentalists at St.James Palace when he made this claim, that I am officially filing in the “made my eyes roll” category, that we only have 96 months left to save the world from the horrors of global warming. To be fair to the Prince, the Independent UK also stated that the Prince had apparently reduced his overall carbon footprint by 30% in the last few years. That would be a noteworthy fact, except his carbon footprint is likely in the range of 1000 x’s that of the average British citizen. So to reduce it that far really isn’t all that significant in my mind, as he jet sets across the globe, burning up jet fuel, heating and cooling down multiple palace’s and homes as well as the enormous amounts of energy to light up those homes. Not impressed. I would assume that we will not be seeing the Prince riding around town in his new green car anytime soon.

Charles said that without “coherent financial incentives and disincentives” we have just 96 months to avert “irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse, and all that goes with it.”

“We face the dual challenges of a world view and an economic system that seem to have enormous shortcomings, together with an environmental crisis – including that of climate change – which threatens to engulf us all.”

“If we don’t face up to this, then Nature, the biggest bank of all, could go bust. And no amount of quantitative easing will revive it.”

The Prince’s advisors, who are said to be some of the leading environmental scientists on the planet must have informed him that the earth is currently on a cooling cycle, as its said that average temperatures around the world have cooled off significantly in the past few years.

Climate Depot.com has a wealth of evidence to this effect. Check it out.

The long-standing voice and face of global warming alarmism Al Gore, was recently sued by 30,000 scientists who claim that he is pushing a fraudulently crafted theory on global warming. Recently though, the real inconvenient truth for Al came out in his own words. This is the entire crux of why the debate is even out there.

“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth’s temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.

Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.

“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.”

Ahh, the inconvenient truth really comes out. Its about creating a global order and global government. Thanks AL, you have made the point for me.

As for the Prince, Al Gore has become a national disgrace and a laughing stock here in the USA. Do yourself a favor and don’t head down this same road, as the world respects and loves the British Royal family for their role in the world and all they do. Don’t become the worlds new ALGore…he carries with him no credibility at all.

Waxman-Markey Clean Energy and Security Act passed the House of Representatives today by a 219-212 vote. 8 Republicans broke rank and voted in favor of the legislation, while 43 Democrats broke rank with their party voting nay on the bill.

Minority Leader John Boehner scolded the legislative body for not thoroughly debating this bill, taking just over 5 hours for over 1200 pages. I must admit, I have not been able to read the bill myself, especially the 300 page add-on that Chairman Henry Waxman decided to tack on at 3AM.
Democrats were giddy over its passage, as part of their agenda of rushed radical legislation. The people of this country have come alive to understand what is going on in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. It clearly does not represent the people of the United States, as they do not even have the good sense to debate and hash out the details of legislation that will affect each and every American. This administration and this Congress promise transparency, yet they drop a 300 page ammendment overnight, and force the vote the next day? God only knows what radical socialism is contained in that monstrous ammendment.

The bottom line on Cap and Trade is simple. It is the largest tax increase in American history. It will crush the manufacturing sector of this country. It will trickle down to the individual families of this country who will pay for the increases. It will drive business overseas. At which point, the pollution from China will still float over into our neighborhoods.

The US House just sold out every day working middle class Americans. I took notes on the Congressman from my area who voted in favor of this bill. It will become my political mission to remove them from office when they come up for election.

Cap and Trade is coming, and its coming quickly. HR 2454 has been met with alot of resistance in the past weeks since it was introduced. Most importantly to the Democrat leadership has been the dissent from some within their own ranks. They came to be known as the Farm Belt Democrats during this discussion. Apparently, according to a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi, a deal has been struck with these Farm Belt Democrats, paving the way for a vote scheduled for this Friday, June 25.

Waxman-Markey as the bill is known officially is a bill set to limit the amount of carbon that can be produced by businesses. The mandatory  reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is a first for the US government, aimed at creating the demand for alternative energy sources, and mandating a heavy tax burden on the companies that do in fact create fossil fuels.

The obvious ripple effect trickles down to the consumer who will face what many expect to be massive increases in their monthly energy bills. According to the Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis :

But the direct tax on household energy use is just the beginning. The energy tax also hits producers. As the higher production costs ripple through the economy, the household pocketbooks get hit again and again. When all the tax impacts have been added up, the average per-family-of-four costs rise by $2,979 per year. In the year 2035 alone, the cost is $4,609. And the costs per family for the whole energy tax aggregated from 2012 to 2035 are $71,493.

The average of the climate tax revenue, what the government gets to spend or give away, is $236 billion from 2012 through 2035 and adds up to $5.7 trillion in tax collections

President Obama said over and over again during his campaign for President that he had planned on taxing the top 1% of wage earners in the United States. He has definetely kept that promise. This bill is effectively a massive tax on the remaining 99% of the  population, that during the difficult economic condition here in our country, most will not be able to afford. The environmental lobbyists in Washington are no-doubt in heaven with the prospect of this bill running through Congress with little or no debate, as Pelosi is planning on doing. This bill is designed to combat the “Global Warming pandemic” that has been widely debunked as junk science. The debate obviously continues on the true effects of climate change, but many scientists are admitting that the earth is currently now in a cooling cycle.

To all the Political Fish readers, I urge you to contact your Senator and representatives to vote down this backdoor tax hike. As Americans across the country struggle to pay their bills and keep their employment, our wonderfully intelligent government plans on stuffing this bill through as quickly as possible. Anyone ever wonder why this President and his puppet leadership in Congress insist on pushing through these enormous bills, stimulus plans, and other assorted legislation at lightning speed? Squashing the debate and enforcing a political agenda is the only reason this would make sense. There is no reason otherwise.

Get active on this bill, or be prepared to hold on to your pocketbook.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mcapdir.html

In a way, I feel sorry for him. He so desperately wants the love and affection of the Muslim world, and it appears he will stop at nothing to achieve it.  I think I will go with a bullet point outline today to illustrate my point.

• The name. During the campaign season, the middle name of Barack Obama was off limits. Hussein brought connotations of an Islamic background. He is a practicing Christian we were told, so back off with the Muslim reference by using his middle name. Its front and center now…
• The bow. Yeah, the Whitehouse tells us it wasn’t a bow. Video doesn’t lie. Our American President bowed to the Saudi King.
• The long time friend. The President through his actions and his words have all but sold out long time friend and ally Israel. Now the tiny Jewish nation faces down the fiery rhetoric of the Iranian regime without its friend to back her up. Speaking of Iran….
• The energy. Obama stated yesterday that he sees nuclear energy as a right of the Iranian regime. Assuming its for peaceful purposes of course. Its truly naive to think that Iran is seeking only nuclear power, but that they are clearly going after nuclear weapons to erradicate the other great satan of Israel. Does anyone really believe that our President is naive? I don’t. Which leads us to…
• The leak. I really swear to you that I am not into conspiracy theories. But come on, the irony here is almost too much. On the day Obama announces that Iran has the right to peaceful nuclear power, it just so happens that the Government printing office posted a 266 page memo on America’s civilian nuclear program. It was taken down eventually, but was up just long enough for our Iranian friends to hit the print button on their Commodore 64 computers. Like I said, the irony is a bit much to see that as being coincidental.

Well, that should do it for now. Its definetely not the only evidence of my initial point, but this is not a court proceeding, so I don’t feel the need to put all the evidence out their at once. For a good read on the subject, I highly reccomend Atlas Shrugs. Ms. Gellar is hard hitting and on top of all the Ali Obama antics, as he continues on his quest to achieve the love and admiration of Muslims around the world. Did I mention that he forgets to mention Muslim extremists who have carried out or tried to carry out attacks in the last two weeks? Yeah, won’t even talk about the extremist side of his prize demographic, but I digress…

Well America, the time has come. President Obama is going to force you to turn out the lights.  During his campaign, Obama promised over and over again to only tax the highest 1% of wage earners. To his credit, he has definetely soaked the rich, and kept his promise. What he hasn’t been quite so honest about is the promise to not raise the taxes on the 95% of American working families, or the middle class. While he hasn’t increased income taxes (in fact, they were slightly lowered temporarily) he has started taxing everything under the sun, which will DIRECTLY affect average middle class working Americans.

When will the masses wake up and see the fraud that is right in front of our faces.

Cap and Trade is just another example of this backdoor double taxation that will not show up in our paychecks. It will, however greatly effect your pocketbooks. The Cap and Trade scheme is basically the creation of a new commodity in the markets, the right and ability to emit carbon, and the government plans on regulating and taxing the daylights out of it (no pun intended). This bill is also known as the Waxman-Markey Clean Energy and Security Act. The taxes that will be leveled on energy companies will be enormous, and that will obviously translate into much higher prices for the average consumer. Those of us at least who pay a light bill or a heating bill.

This is a call to action for all PoliticalFish readers to contact your Senators and Representatives and demand that they shoot down this piece of garbage legislation. This is a green lobbyist dream bill, and it also will be used to fund Obama’s socialistic universal healthcare initiatives. The plan is to jam this through the House this week. Fly it under the radar, do it quickly…thats the name of the game these days in Washington.

Here is the text of the bill – http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2454/text

Flanked by what can only be described as useful idiots, President Obama declares a new set of rules to appease the global warming alarmists by upping further the REQUIRED fuel mileage for all cars. That includes your car, and mine. Lets examine some of the folks that were there with the President today.

*Jennifer Granholm – currently being touted as a possible replacement on the bench of the Supreme court and failed governor of Michigan. Under her watch, the economy has shrunk for 8 straight years, the deficit has ballooned, and the auto industry decimated.

* Arnold Schwarzenegger – After winning the special election in California running as a conservative, the terminator realized he couldn’t persuade the liberal legislators in the Golden State of anything at all, so he just threw his principles out and has led his state to the very brink of bankruptcy. Mind you, even a federal bailout cannot get them out of the mess he has led them too.

* Fritz Henderson – Obama’s hand-picked replacement for Rick Waggoner of GM. Fritz has no choice but to do as he is told, because his new boss is also holds the most powerful office in the world. Smile for the camera Fritz, you want these new standards.

An already decimated auto industry will be required to meet these standards by 2016 on all new cars, and consumers will eat the cost. Estimates put the average cost per vehicle at around $1300. In addition, the auto industry agreed to drop the lawsuit against the broke state of California for the illegal set of rules set up to combat global warming. This is nothing more than a step forward for the cap-and-trade legislation, however those requirements could not be met even if you take all of the cars off the road all together.

Government regulation and control has been the downfall of the auto industry here in the United States in the last 10-15 years. I guess the beat goes on…

So, this may not exactly be breaking news, but it honestly looks as if there could not be less interest in the Congressional elections of 2008. The Democrats and Republicans go back and forth on different issues to try and garner support, but are only being talked about in the context of the presidential race. I’m not sure which side will benefit, if either, from this type of silent treatment from both the public and the media.

As of right now, it would seem like the Democrats are fine either way. Public opinion polls show them with a comfortable lead just weeks before the vote. You can see the change for yourself at http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/. The CNN /Opinion Research Poll taken shortly after the convention showed the Democrats with a 3 percentage point lead over the Republicans in the battle for Congressional control. However, in just a few weeks that lead has grown to 14 points. The Democrats have taken advantage of the hard times that traditional GOP institutions are having. The GOP will likely suffer after years of appearing as the representative of big finance and big oil.

However, there may be some hope for the Republicans yet. The Democrats may be giving in to a major demand if in fact the ban on off shore drilling expires shortly. For years there has been a moratorium on drilling, which the Republicans have been lobbying to lift. The Democrats were left in the position of defending the moratorium while gas prices continued to rise. You can read the Associated Press article detailing the events here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_go_co/offshore_drilling. As you can see from the article, GOP leadership is making strides to take credit for this development.