Posted by: 4mainstreet | July 3, 2009

Boehner on Cap and Trade Amendment

To watch the video or read the transcript go here

Is this showing you how stupid people are getting today if this can be slid under your nose, if you don’t think that the American is being taken for a ride.

In the first video the one that is complaining is one of the writers of the bill and does not want any one to here how Americans are going to get screwed.
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07/01/2009:  By Connie Hair

Last week on the House floor during closing statements before the vote on the disastrous cap and trade national energy tax, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) the House Republican leader used his traditional unlimited time to read the 300-page amendment to the Democrats massive energy tax legislation that was dropped into the bill at 3:09 am on the morning right before the vote. Boehner provided colorful commentary while exposing some of the more egregious elements Democrats tried to hide in the last-minute amendment they hoped no one would have time to read.

“My colleagues, we’ve been through a very difficult time in our economy,” Boehner said from the House floor. “We’ve had the great economic shocks of last fall, and we’ve seen unemployment climbing month after month after month. It is now at some 9.4 percent.

“Earlier this year we passed a 1,100-page bill that no one read. It was supposed to be about putting the American people back to work again. It was supposed to be about stimulating our economy. And all we heard during that debate was about jobs, jobs and jobs. It’s pretty clear that what the bill really ended up being was nothing more than spending, spending and more spending, because since that bill passed, some 1.7 million Americans have lost their jobs. So when we look at the legislation that continues to go through here, the American people are seeing an awful lot of spending, an awful lot of money going to government, but they’re not seeing new jobs.

“Now we come to what I believe is the most profound piece of legislation that has come to the floor of this House in the last 100 years. It’s hard to say in the first 6 months of the new Congress that this could be the defining vote and the defining bill for this Congress, but I really, truly believe that this is the defining bill.”


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