Boehner: American Clean Energy and Security Act is a ‘pile of sh*t.’
By on Jun 28th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Boehner: American Clean Energy and Security Act is a ‘pile of sh*t.’
On Friday, the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act which will, in part, regulate carbon emissions in the U.S. House Minority Leader John Beohner, a vocal critic of the legislation, delayed Friday evening’s vote for nearly an hour by taking advantage his “privilege as leader to speak for an unlimited time on the House floor.” After the House finally voted on and passed the legislation, the Hill asked Boehner to comment on what he had hoped to gain through his “filibuster-like” delay. “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of sh*t,” Boehner replied.
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Looks like Boner is projecting again.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:43 amCivil discourse and family values FTW?
June 28th, 2009 at 9:45 ammemo to boo hoo boner,
June 28th, 2009 at 9:50 amyou assclowns wouldn’t find yourself in this position if you hadn’t plundered this country for eight years and could win an election every now and then
And we deserve to know how many times Boner talked with the coal industry over the last few weeks too. Subpoena his phone records!
June 28th, 2009 at 9:56 am“asked Boehner to comment on what he had hoped to gain through his “filibuster-like” delay. “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of sh*t,” Boehner replied.”
ironically enough, this clown actually believe people listen to what he got to say.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:00 amBRAVO! Aptly put, Mr. Boehner.
Finally, someone with enough guts to call this bill for what it is.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:00 amAs always, boners whoremones are off..His teen like fit’s of tears are like his tan, apply often and return to the golf course…P. B. & J
June 28th, 2009 at 10:03 amHAHAHAHA
And you’re not?
June 28th, 2009 at 10:10 amRep. Boehner delayed the bill ONE HOUR and Hurled an epithet.
Powerful stuff.
The real battle will be in the Senate. Powerful forces are assembling.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:12 amLittle Johnny the Wailer ought to know a pile of sh!t when he sees it. After all, he spots one every morning in the mirror when he shaves so he’s had lots of practice.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:13 amTimmy you’re here early. How was your night? Did you have a good sleep?
June 28th, 2009 at 10:16 amWell did you read it boner?
June 28th, 2009 at 10:17 amGlad to see the repugs have their “family values” on display again…
June 28th, 2009 at 10:17 amProud Says
HAHAHAHA
You’re fun-nee too!
You won’t live long enough to see another repug in the oval office.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:20 amHas Boehner ever been accurate in ANYTHING…just like his version of the GOP budget…it didn’t have any numbers.
Has this man ever investigated the cause of global warming, or is he a graduate of the Limpball school of stupid?
June 28th, 2009 at 10:21 amSen. McConnel’s Republican solution to the Green house gas problem…
June 28th, 2009 at 10:24 amNuclear Power and Clean Coal.
Never mind that Safe Nuclear Waste disposal and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration are in the same category as Missile Defense….Non Existent Wishful Thinking.
Well, its consistent, at least, with other bills passed in the House.
I understand the need for speed, of course. One of the most effective attacks against HillaryCare back in 1993 was when Republican politicians and talk radio would read from the bill all the nasty provisions in it.
No, now we ram it through without giving the public time to see the bill and react.
Hell, there wasn’t even an integrated bill this time. You had one copy of the original bill , and one copy of the 300 page amendment, and that was it. And its not like you’d just stick the amendment on the end of the bill, no, it was “remove sub-paragraph i and replace it with blah blah blah”. Who knows what they were voting on?
What a way to run the country, huh?
Later,
June 28th, 2009 at 10:26 amBoner the cry baby, it seems like a lot of repug “MEN?” are doing the same thing that they accused Hillary of, saying how weak she was showing her emotions in public like that. As for repugs gaining control ask a true South Carolina voter about Sanford’s lame lame duck future. hahahahaha
June 28th, 2009 at 10:36 amMr.Boehner’s perhaps alcohol-related, tan-induced, tear-spattered theatrical antics not withstanding (he performs as well as Sanford), we are easily dissuaded from examining the facts, in favor of oohing and awe-ing over the hystrionics. The bill is no longer what it was originally intended to be, and may well get blown out completely by the big money forces paying for our senator’s and their condos. Peabody Coal alone has spent more money trying to block the bill than the public and the government have spent researching and supporting it.
A month from now it will be forgotten and in a decade or less, while we are all choking on untreated coal fumes and have made no significant advances in electricity production (and coal prices will be sky high), there will be another uprising. And then everyone will look back with perfect rear-view outlooks and condemn the the decisions “those people” made “back then”. Save me,please, from this “pile of s#@t” crap: you are standing in it.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:41 am… and bob schieffer allowed haley barboor many minutes to spew fright wing talking points about it with no corrections…
imagine that…
June 28th, 2009 at 10:46 amSo why did Nancy Pelosi and the Dems “Ram” this Bill thru the house???
1. Because they could.
2. Copenhagen. If America had gone to the World Climate Change Conference next month after having Defeated efforts to do SOMETHING about it , they would have been handed a proverbial “Pile of Sh*t” by China and India.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:47 amHow about this alternative: ban the sale or purchase of flood insurance for any property within 40 feet of sea level. Ban disaster relief funding for such property as well.
Why should we have to pay for all those luxury resorts that are going to get flooded out of business?
June 28th, 2009 at 10:53 amAfter the House finally voted on and passed the legislation, the Hill asked Boehner to comment on what he had hoped to gain through his “filibuster-like” delay. “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of sh*t,” Boehner replied.
But he was able to delay the vote by talking for an hour.
Way to sacrifice that golf game and tanning session, Boney. It’s the least you could do for your country…which is exactly what you give — your least.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:55 amProud Says:
Great comedy routine! Or is that just a GOPer wet dream?
June 28th, 2009 at 10:57 amIt takes one to know one…a pile of sh*t that is.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:58 amRemember when republican Senator Phil Gramm dumped a 262 page amendment under Clinton (repukes controlled the Senate under Clinton!) BASICALLY DEREGULATING CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS? Where was your outrage? Oh wait! You only get pissed off when amendments are slipped in to help Americans! Nevermind. You love the ones that hurt Americans.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:04 amWTF? Why are Sissy Graham and Mittens babbling away on Press the Meat? Does David EVER have and Dems on?
June 28th, 2009 at 11:06 amOops, any Dems, duh.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:06 amLet’s hope it helps eliminate carbon emissions from Boehner’s mouth.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:12 amCicero @10:26,
June 28th, 2009 at 11:17 amHow much time was given the Dems and the public to read the Patriot Bill before the Regressive Repubs “SHOVED IT” down the throat of this country? You got a answer?
Correct me if I’m wrong. As I said earlier I don’t know enough about this cap and trade bill but after listening to Boehner babble on and on as he read the bill and mentioned carbon derivatives my first thought was that this bill is just going to create another market for the Wall Street crowd to make a lot of money.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:19 amBoner is a loathsome toad oozing corruption from every pore.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:19 amIt wouldn’t surprise too much if the GOP finally realizes what a self-absorbed wanker Boehner is and replaces him after the midterms (I only hope the Dems follow trend and dump Pelosi in favour of someone like Waxman, Lewis, or Van Hollen).
And I still fear for the Bill. It’s very unlikely that it will pass the senate unless reconciliation is used, and the version of the bill that’d return to the House would be unrecognizable. Consider this a dry run for the healthcare bill.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:20 amWatchdope’s first link:
EPA looked at the “report” by the “Competitive Enterprise Institute,” written by a Alan Carlin (who holds a PhD in Economics, not climatology), and decided it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. CBS fails — again — to do proper reporting. Dismissed.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:29 amSo, all of you naysayers are saying do nothing at all, just wait until the problems are huge and then start working on them? That’s like a doctor telling you that in 10 years a mole will mostly likely turn into melanoma, you dismiss it, ten years later the melanoma shows up, and then you want to try to save your life, but by that time it has spread from the outside to the inside of your body. Yeah, your plan to delay taking any action will work out just fine for you when you find in year 10 that the prognosis for extending your life is 6 months.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:35 amSomeone among the citizenry and the government has to have the ability to examine the research and its’ implications. Living in a state of denial will most likely doom the ones who are thinking rationally to the same fate as the deniers if the deniers are allowed to have their way. It’s a good thing that only a simple majority vote is needed in the Senate, and we progressives will keep the pressure on the dems like McCaskill who don’t seem to know which way the wind is blowing regarding CAP.
watchdog Says:
The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere On Climate Change.
Quoting a WSJ column which references: The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. — 13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers.
Inhofe? Yes, indeed, and his list of “scientists” includes virtually no climatologists — and some that are listed have asked to be taken off the list.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:36 amUncle Fester Lurks,
Actually, you have the basics, but it isn’t necessisarily Wall Street types that are going to get filthy rich off this scam.
It’s the Democrats and their friends like Al Gore, Maurice Strong, etc..
June 28th, 2009 at 11:37 amwatchdog,
Good posts! Stick it to these head-in-the-sand kool-aid drinkers!
June 28th, 2009 at 11:38 amgummble-bee-itch,
Don’t forget the numerous scientists who DEMANDED their names be removed from the final U.N. report because it was nothing more than a POLITICAL report, not a scientific one.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:39 amWhy do I get the feeling that this bill is all about money? In the public eye, the debate is about new taxes, new technology, a cleaner environment, more jobs created, more jobs lost, the democrats are shown as the supporters of this bill while the republicans play the role as the opponents of the bill but for some weird reason, knowing how our government operates, I get the feeling that because this will create a new market on Wall Street for investors, that both parties are secretly for this bill and the grand debate is just a spectacle for the public.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:41 ammajii,
Your argument, like many others presumes that mankind’s activities are the primary cause of so-called “global warming.”
Got news for you. This is nothing more than a theory that has serious flaws and no credible science to support it.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:41 amTim Vaculik Says:
Actually, you have the basics, but it isn’t necessisarily Wall Street types that are going to get filthy rich off this scam.
It’s the Democrats and their friends like Al Gore, Maurice Strong, etc..
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You are truly naive if you think it will only be democrats and their friends who will make money on this. Members of both parties are addicted to money.
Members of both parties have made small fortunes off of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, off of the health care industry, off of the pharmaceutical companies etc, etc,
There should be a law (if there isn’t one already and is ignored) where all elected officials must reveal to the public all of their investments and if say they have money invested in a drug company or a defense company, this would disqualify them from voting on any bill related to drug or health care companies.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:47 amand disqualify them on any bill related to defense contracts…
June 28th, 2009 at 11:49 amLeftside Annie Says:
Boner is a loathsome toad oozing corruption from
every pore.
Don’t you know he’s just another clone out of the
June 28th, 2009 at 11:53 amcesspool under the Heritage Foundation?
tim, get away from the computer and get some sun. all of your arguements revolve around opposing common sense.
not sure where you’ve been the last 10 years, but your views, like your beliefs cant be changed by facts. so we are done talking to you.
please for the love of god get a life.
June 28th, 2009 at 11:58 amTim Vaculik is worried that Democrats are going to get rich. What energy companies pay your salary Tim. The only time you show up is to support the energy companies. And you certainly don’t show any concern that the energy companies throw money at politicians who are against this.
Plus for you and watchdog, a scientific theory only needs one test of it to fail to prove the theory void. If your paid propagandists could come up with one such test no scientists would support it. In the meantime it’s amazing how much you right wingers fight to keep the world from becoming a better place. Family values and and “good Christians” my a$$.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:00 pmI believe the House would need to vote on this again once the Senate passes the bill. Wanna bet Bonehead and his cronies won’t have read the whole bill by then either.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pme_to_the_pOTATO BUG,
I was in the Sun yesterday, thank you. Of course, you are entitled to YOUR opinion, but not your own set of facts.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:03 pmDoodlebug Shayne @ 51…that is what bothers me so much about many republicans, my sister included. They always take the side of the corporations, never the American worker, never our environment…I just don’t get it.
If one looks at our country’s history, the corporations have been screwing the American worker forever. Just look into the mining history of the 30’s & the 70’s. Of course thanks to Louis Powell, there was a move in the 80’s to remove all of labor history of our country from books in our public schools.
The ironic thing is that many of these corporate supporting republicans fear the new world order or one world government and yet some of the very things that they support could eventually help lead to a one world government.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:07 pmTim Vaculik Says:
e_to_the_pOTATO BUG,
I was in the Sun yesterday, thank you. Of course, you are entitled to YOUR opinion, but not your own set of facts.
You want a peer review of the “suppressed” paper? Here ya go.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
No, this bill is more like a shovel to clean up the pile of shit industry is drowning us in. That includes he ranching industry which produces farting cows to support our over-consumption of beef. Just because cows are living beings, they are raised, maintained, and processed by humans for consumption, just like any other manufactured product. Their co2 and methane emissions are therefore a result of human intervention. There would not be so many if not for our breeding them in captivity. We’re drowning in shit, and I’m embarrassed to know Boehner is from Ohio, making us all look like uneducated fools.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:08 pmTim Vaculik @11:37
June 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pmAre you talking about this Maurice Strong?
1974 – Tyler Environmental Prize
1981 – Charles A. Lindbergh Award
1975,2007 – National Audubon Society Award
1989 – Pearson Peace Medal,Pearson Medal of Peace Recipient
1993 – Alexander Onassis Delphi Prize
1993 – International St. Francis Prize for the Environment
1994 – Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
1994 – Ashhi Glass Foundation Award
1995 – IKEA Environment Award
1996 – Swedish Royal Oeder of the Polar Star
1997,2007 – Henri Pittier Order of Venezuela
2002 – Carriage House Center on Global Issues
2003,2007 – Public Welfare Medel from the National Academy of Sciences – First Non US Citizen to recieve the medal.
Other honors and awards include:
The Brazilian National Order of the Southern Cross
Commander of the Order of the Golden Ark (Netherlands)
International st.Francis Prize,Fellow
The Royal Society (UK)
Royal Society of Canada
Royal Architectural Institute of Canad
Honorary Board Member, David Suzuki Foundation
Distinguished Fellow, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Let’s not forget 53 honoray doctorate degrees and Honory Visiting Professorships at 7 universities.
Do you think he knows anything about the earth and it’s problems, verses what you and your mentors Rush,Hannity or Sen Inhofe know?
Dear Congressman Boner
We also deserved to know what was in the equally big pile of Cheney known as the Patriot Act. Why didn’t you take the time back then to denegrate that legislation – something that really IS a pile of Cheney?
June 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pmDoodlebug Shayne,
Sorry, I’m not employed by any type of energy-related company. BUT, I do understand the energy industry very well, particularly the electric power industry. I’m not married to coal, for example. Just to reliable energy in sufficient quantites to run our economy.
Well then, you should be on our side! Are you aware that there is NO climate model that when fed past atmospheric CO2 data, can even replicate the earth’s temperatures today?
In fact, there is ample evidence from ice cores and other sources that rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere come AFTER a rise in global temperatures!
June 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pmwatchdog Says:
This was an Open public comment period. The EPA has to review all submissions
June 28th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Obviously — well, not to you — the submission was reviewed in order for it to be rejected. Idiot.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:16 pmDoodlebug Shayne,
Now if you have an open mind and not a belly-full of Kool-Aid, go read this:
“Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition” by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery
June 28th, 2009 at 12:16 pm“watchdog” is a paid lobbyist, trolling progressive websites. it’s the only thing which would explain their prolific tenacity. they aren’t changing opinion.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:17 pmI just love that photo of Boner wiping his eyes! Can I haz it?
(Right click? Oh, yeah, t’anks.)
Maybe he’s wiping the spray-on tan out of his eyes. That can be quite an irritant, I’ve heard.
ha ha
June 28th, 2009 at 12:19 pmThat’s right, watchdog. We need more study! At least a trillion dollars’ worth. Let’s give it all to Halliburton, and GE, and Lockheed Martin to study global warming. I’m sure they’ll be perfectly objective, if they don’t conclude they need another trillion next year.
ha ha
June 28th, 2009 at 12:20 pmwatchdog Says:
You are over simplifying how science is supposed to work. nobody knows what kind of effect this will cause if any.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
That’s rich. You have no idea what the scientific method is or how it works. If you did, you’d understand that there is a vast amount of evidence supporting human-caused climate change. And not in a good way.
Read this. It’s all about the Scientific Method, and it might be simple enough for you to understand.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:22 pmBoehner been looking in the mirror again?
June 28th, 2009 at 12:30 pmTim Vaculik Says:
“Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition” by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery
June 28th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
S. Fred Singer? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
Dennis T. Avery? OMG, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAAAAAA!!!!1111!!!
Dude, you’re cracking me up! Stop sniffing those asses, your brain is damaged.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!111!!!!1!!
June 28th, 2009 at 12:30 pmwatchdog Says:
They have no substantial evidence of effects that minuscule warming of the entire globe will have on any climate.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
You just keep letting them tell you that, imbecile. Lord knows, you aren’t finding out for yourself.
Sheep. Baaaa….
June 28th, 2009 at 12:32 pmwatchdog Says:
They have no substantial evidence of effects that minuscule warming of the entire globe will have on any climate.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
BTW, yes they do have such evidence. You’re just too frightened to find out.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:34 pmHis comments are as authentic as his tan.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:37 pmWHAT? Nobody knows. I thought you and Timmy had authorities that absolutely know there’s no such thing as man made climate change. If you don’t have absolute proof, which you don’t, then I’m all for erring on the side of caution until humans grow gills.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:43 pmHere ya go, watchdork.
IPCC
I have no doubt that you will dismiss it out of hand, since there’s such overwhelming evidence contained in all those studies, but that’s just who you are.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:46 pmTimmeh doesn’t need a brain, he has his TALKING POINTS.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:46 pmwatchpuppy, Tim and any other conservative kooks out there,
Why does THE PENTAGON say the greatest threat to our security in the next twenty years or so will come from climate change causing sea levels to rise and huge numbers of refugees, droughts and food shortages, and many small wars over resources such as food and water? Are they KNOWN PROGRESSIVES PUSHING A PROGRESSIVE AGENDA?
And if your body temperature increased from 98.6F to 102F and stayed there, that would be a very small warming, wouldn’t it? Only about 3%.
Maybe it’s the sun causing our warming????? Well, I thought you said it was cooling. And why do you think thousands of the world’s top climatologists could not have thought of something so simple if that were the answer?
June 28th, 2009 at 12:49 pmwatchdog Says:
RealClimate Has some interesting associations like:
Environmental Media Services Who founded by Arlie Schardt, a former journalist, former communications director for Al Gore’s 2000 Presidential campaign
Fenton Communications Who is a known Progressive trying to push the progressive ageda.
You source has ZERO credit. NEXT!!
Nice try, poopdog. Of course, for a climate change denier, the first thing to do is to attempt to discredit actual climatologists — while at the same time quoting from non-climatologists who are being paid by the fossil fuel industry.
Emphasis added in a vain attempt to get through the block of concrete that passes for a watchdog skull.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:49 pmOslo, 10 December 07
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
were awarded of the Nobel Peace Prize
“for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater
knowledge about man-made climate change, and to
lay the foundations for the measures that are
needed to counteract such change”.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:53 pmwatchpuppy, and your degree is in what field of science? My god man! step away from comming here for awhile and read up on the peer review papers of scientists who are working and doing research in the field of climate change, then come back to us.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:57 pmThe Boner had a beer with Jesus last night.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:05 pmBadger Says:
Sen. McConnel’s Republican solution to the Green house gas problem…
Nuclear Power and Clean Coal.
Never mind that Safe Nuclear Waste disposal and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration are in the same category as Missile Defense….Non Existent Wishful Thinking.
I believe their solution to Nuclear Power and most anything else is Nuclear War.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:12 pmNow we should all listen to a guy like Boehner when it comes to climate change. Here’s a guy who thinks the earth is only 6000 years old, and humans walked with dinosaurs. How can we go wrong with that kind of logic? What do all those scientists know when it comes to a great brain like Boehner.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:14 pmCicero Says
If you can’t read at a normal pace (5th grade level), may I suggest SRA. This is an excellent reading program. It will also helps with your reading comprehension.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:18 pmrepugs don’t use sun screen then. Use baby oil and show them scientists a thing or two.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:23 pmSo, watchpuppy thinks that if we are not 100% sure, we should do nothing. Thats like a guy standing in the living room of a house with the kitchen on fire and saying, but its not burning here.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:25 pmIPCC compiled 2600 pages of evidence pointing towards human responsiblity for climate change. CO2 in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million before the industrial revolution and 379 ppm in March 2004.
20,000 Europeans died in the summer of 2002 heat wave. US insurance losses due to extreme weather was $2 billion per year in the 1980’s and $12 billion per year in 1990’s.
Nature Magazine said up to 37% of 1,103 species studied could face extinction or near-extinction as a consequence of global warming.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:26 pmpoopdog: If they wanted to be truly balanced and concerned with truth. why even associate with know political activists?
Everyone is associated with someone. How about you provide a source that counters ACTUAL CLIMATOLOGISTS and we can take a good look at who they “associate with.”
And around here “associating with progressives” is hardly considered a problem.
There’s no way around the credibility of climatologists, dog, no matter how desperately you try to DENY it.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:27 pmWatch Dog is concerned about climate change legislation because of the crippling of our horribly troubled economy
We are going to Spend/Borrow Half a Trillion Dollar$ on Imported Oil this year.
This is good for our economy??
We need a little forward thinking, and less fear mongering.
Even IF were it the case that huge increases in greenhouse gases are benign, we need to get off Oil for Economic and National Security reasons .
June 28th, 2009 at 1:30 pmWe did not have a HORRIBLY TROUBLED ECONOMY after eight years of Clinton. Obama inherited it after eight years of Bush!
June 28th, 2009 at 1:36 pmwatchpuppy is not concerned about the effects of climate change or how much oil we import or anything else for that matter. Watchpuppy will be against anything that progressives on this site are for period. Doesn’t matter what the subject is, he will be on the otherside.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:36 pmIs Boner crying again? Who would have thought that a pile of shit had feelings?
June 28th, 2009 at 1:38 pmFDR inherited a HORRIBLY TROUBLED ECONOMY after 12 years of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Clinton inherited a bad economy after 12 years of Reagan&Bush I.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:39 pmwatchpuppy. Huh? wouldn’t the guy be just as vulnerable in his old house? And if we try to do something about our finger prints on climate change, maybe he won’t have to worry so much about those hurricanes and tornadoes.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:42 pmUncle Fester Lurks says, “That is what bothers me so much about many republicans, my sister included. They always take the side of the corporations, never the American worker, never our environment…I just don’t get it.”
You can include my sister, too. She claims that she’s for the environment yet she voted against the father of “Earth Day”, Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). And she voted for Reagan, the man who said that trees cause pollution.
She forwards numerous email messages to me about protecting wildlife, especially wolves. But then she votes for Sarah Palin, the women who shoots wolves for fun from airplanes.
Her 24 year old son is over $10,000 in debt due to hospital bills. Her 22 year old daughter has no health care coverage at all. But then my sister turns around and tells me that she doesn’t want any change to our health care system.
She says she’s pro-life but then she votes for Republican who are pro-war.
She’s an Evangelical extremist who says that I’m going to go to hell. But in the end, if there really is a heaven and hell, I think that she’ll be the one who’ll fry in hell.
Other than that, I get along well with my sister.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:51 pmEvangelicalism is the fastest growing mental illness in this nation.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:57 pmStay classy, Boehner.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:58 pmangels81 Says:
So, watchpuppy thinks that if we are not 100% sure, we should do nothing. Thats like a guy standing in the living room of a house with the kitchen on fire and saying, but its not burning here.
Too true.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:02 pmPlease remember repugs logic isn’t a dem/liberal/progressive thing.
Even paternity tests aren’t 100%, nothing is. With that logic of yours watchie, you would never claim your children.
Chickenbone Bill Says:
How much time was given the Dems and the public to read the Patriot Bill before the Regressive Repubs “SHOVED IT” down the throat of this country? You got a answer?
Answer, not nearly enough.
Do not take my opposition for actions of the current President and Dem-controlled Congress as support for past actions of the previous President and the then Rep-controlled Congress.
Past bad behaviour by the Repubs does not excuse current bad behaviour from the Dems.
Later,
June 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pm#10.Proud sez:It will never pass the Senate, but thank you for helping us with the mid term elections by dummping last minute changes at 3:00 in the morning prior to the vote.
Oh, you mean like the Rethugs did with the Medicare Part B drug bill (I think it was 2a.m.)? Didn’t hear you and your Rethug friends protesting about THAT one.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:49 pmgummble-bee-itch Says:
watchdog Says:
The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere On Climate Change.
Quoting a WSJ column which references: The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. — 13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers.
Inhofe? Yes, indeed, and his list of “scientists” includes virtually no climatologists — and some that are listed have asked to be taken off the list.
Aren’t there 20k scientists who can prove man-made climate change?
June 28th, 2009 at 3:17 pmAny claim that the number of global warming skeptics is climbing is a flat-out lie. The only voices of opposition are the same energy industry shills and young earth creationists who have been saying the same shit for 20 years.
June 28th, 2009 at 3:24 pmInhofe and Boner haven’t the foggiest notion what science is. I wouldn’t trust the two of them combined to count to ten. Neither of them has any scientific credibility.
June 28th, 2009 at 3:28 pmNice picture of Boehner wiping the tanning oil out of his eye.
These people will do anything to kill this legislation, because it will hurt their largest supporters’ profits.
Watch this clip of Chuck Grassley not being completely honest about CO2 emissions.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=1971
June 28th, 2009 at 3:29 pmAnd this mucker Boehner state has received $7,4 billion dollars from the Feds and he’s always whining on tv, “where are the jobs!!, where are the jobs!!. Meantime, he’s out on the golf course raising money and only raised $31,000?
Does anyone see the discourse and hypocrisy here?
Little less golf time would have help Boehner the “Whiner”?
June 28th, 2009 at 4:11 pmOh no, is he going to start weeping again? Er… cleanup on aisle 4! Bring the big mop. Boner’s been crying like a baby again. Give crybaby Johnny a sucker so he’ll stop crying.
June 28th, 2009 at 4:28 pmThe reason Boners filibuster didn’t work is he need to eventually stop and go out for a smoke. It’s true. The Dems knew that would happen so they just patiently sat by listening to their ipod or whatever.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:08 pmI’m a retired A.F. WX forecaster. I have studied Climo, not on the scale or the depth that the peer reviewed studies have. I DO NOT consider myself a climatoligist in any sense of the word. I do, however, know a hell of a lot more than the swatchdog or TammyG will ever learn. Climate change is not something to be blownoff with non-peer reviewed, Oil company backed “studies”.
My question to these idiots is: Even if the studies are wrong, what do we have to lose by cutting back on pouring more and more pollution into the atmosphere? I mean, Damn, it’s like saying smoking is not proven to be bad for you. I’m pretty sure putting smoke into your lungs is not the way the body was designed to operate. Pouring hundreds of thousands tons of “smoke” into the atmosphere, can’t possibly be good.
Is cap and trade the answer? I don’t know, but at least it’s a start.
USAF,REt.
P.S. Zooey, dbadass, the Schneiders, etc…Keep kicking A**. My work schedule is such that I can’t contribute, but I’m here every day cheering you on. Thanks
June 28th, 2009 at 5:11 pmI couldn’t have said it any better, stormy. What ticks me off is that these freaks whine about the “cost” of green technology without ever mentioning the unimaginable profits.
Batteries, alternative fuels, electric drive trains, solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, fuel cell/hydrogen, all stand to make fortunes for somebody.
Plus we get the advantage of being able to devote the shrinking petroleum supply to plastics and other industrial uses instead of just burning it. I’ve often said that living without gas will be an easy transition compared to trying to live without plastic.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:28 pmHi Stormy. I was in the farce too. Scope dope.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:37 pmWell said Pete. Well not just plastic, but other products…golf balls, basting brushes, Turkey basters,etc. But seriously, what do we have to lose using your ideas?….Nothing. I believe we’re past peak oil. I don’t think that even my two grandkids will be alive long enough for new “oil” to be made. I mean I’m already 10 years past when I thought I would live. But with 2, 10 year old grand children…i kind of care about their future.
John
June 28th, 2009 at 5:38 pmP.S. Wayne S., I’ve seen you’re an AF vet, when and Where were you stationed? Just wondering if our paths crossed.
John Beohner is a steaming pile of shit. There, I said it and I’m glad.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:50 pmUncalled for Crazy…A HUGE steaming pile of Shi#..sorry for the “cor”, my father was a managing editor..old habits die hard.
June 28th, 2009 at 6:06 pmGerald Celente predict Obamageddon 2012: http://digg.com/d1v8Cx?t
June 28th, 2009 at 8:13 pmGermany’s 1923 Hyperinflation could happen in USA 2012 ???: http://digg.com/d1v8Fv?t
June 28th, 2009 at 8:29 pmYou’re so FOS kws, that your eyes are brown. When you come up with credible source, come back and see us. BTW, posting the crap on a long dead thread is rather chickensh*t. Man up and hit an active thread with this tripe
June 28th, 2009 at 8:37 pmBoehner is right – it can be compared to $h*t.
Feces makes great compost.
It generates methane.
Why don’t we make use of it ?
June 28th, 2009 at 10:07 pmThe boners’ statement does make me pause…I’m thinking, if anyone knows shit,it’s the boner. He’s been steppin’ in it his whole career.I must admit I’m a little confused.But then again, I’m young and I’ll get over it.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:45 amGame of Life Says:
If you are an example of SRA’s program, I’d get my money back.
Later,
June 29th, 2009 at 1:13 amMy late stepfather was a Republican from Ohio but also a scientist and Teddy Roosevelt-style conservationist. I’m sure the presence of people like Bonehead would have sent him crying away from the G(roup)O(f)(P)erverts, if he were alive today.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:22 amMe thinks Boehner is the one passing gas here. All of the data shows CO2 going up in tandem with the industrial revolution. If the problem was cow farts like Boehner likes to claim then CO2 emissions should have declined as we killed off the huge buffalo herds. Likewise, CO2 emissions should be higher in places like India where they have even more cows than we do. There is simply no data to support Boehner and his cow farts.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:09 amA pile of shit eh? Well, I suppose he would know.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:29 amSomeone needs to find out which companies are paying this man to be against clean energy. Anyone with half a brain knows that we have to start doing something otherwise we are going to be in big trouble. Hard to believe that the GOP is this flippin stupid.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:15 amDoes anyone here know plants use CO2 to grow???Seems to me reducing CO2 would kill off some rainforest somewhere and that would piss off some no foresight environmentalists.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:57 pmMost people realize someone actually needs to put a solution in place before your precious Starbucks can stop brewing your crappuccino w/ public utiity power. But, i’m sure Cap and Trade will fix everything. Let’s see… $686 billion for Waxman-Markey …to start. Let’s trade something we just make out of thin air like “carbon credits” that don’t exist and tax the hell out of everyone with a real job for them so that welfare babies can have more perfect mountains to never go to.
Let’s quote the nonsensical arguments of that ilk. Public Citizen’s case: Federal efforts to resuscitate a nuclear industry that was DOA come with a cost: your tax dollars (over $13 billion) are being spent to support the companies that want to build new nukes, transfering the considerable financial risk from corporations to taxpayers.
Hmmm. 686 billion for the new ENRON or 13 billion to do something that works until you can figure out a way to power your car with a windmill. Oh and you have to manufacture the windmill with only the power made from windmills. ;-) And you can’t use metals to make your windmill because that metal would have to be mined from somewhere, most likely somewhere newly stressed trees are growing. And you can’t use plastics because they use petroleum….
“Boehner: American Clean Energy and Security Act is a ‘pile of sh*t.”, so is the republican party…guess what you look like one too with that tan of yours.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:36 pmThank you..
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