8 GOP votes pave way for Obama 'Climate Change Bill' in House

President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scored a major victory with the House's approval of a landmark climate bill-- thanks to a little help from a handful of Republicans.

Friday's vote was 219-212. The legislation was supported by 211 Democrats and eight aisle-crossing GOP members: Reps. Mary Bono(Calif.), Michael Castle(Del.),Mark Kirk (Ill.),Leonard Lance(NJ),Frank LoBiondo(NJ), John McHugh(NY), David Reichert(Wash), and Christopher Smith(NJ). Forty-four Democrats voted against the bill, making the eight GOP votes all the more crucial.

I personally can see the point of House Minority Leader John Boehner, who said, "this is the biggest job-killing bill  thats ever been on the floor of the House of Representatives. Right here, this bill.""I don't think that's in the best interest of the American people."

The 1,200- plus-page bill now goes to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain future.

According to the Associated Press, the "cap-and-trade" legislation places the first the first national limits on emissions of heat-trapping gases from major sources like power plants, refineries, and factories.

As written, the bill will cost American households an estimated $175 a year by 2020.

Many Republican refer to the legislation as a "national energy tax."

Sorry for the month hiatus, but we're back and still pissing off liberals and spreading the conservative truth. Please enjoy this post on Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics, and thanks for all the hits. -SD

REAGANOMICS Vs. OBAMANOMICS

You know what really irritates me about liberals? 

They always think liberalism fixes the problem -- even when it was liberalism that caused the problem in the first place!

Case in point, the Financial Meltdown of 2008 (and counting). To hear liberals tell it, it all goes back to Ronald Reagan -- who with his seductive "B-actor" charm fooled America into thinking that by slashing taxes, regulation, and government spending we could unleash free enterprise and create a new wave of prosperity.

Sure, liberals concede, that seemed to work for, oh, the better part of three decades, but now we're paying the price for all that "greed." The solution? A return to the pre-Reagan policies of Jimmy Carter, LBJ, FDR... Speaking of which, what will victory look like in the "War on Poverty"? When are they going to produce an "exit strategy" from that quagmire?

Unfortunately, the facts -- as always when you're talking about liberal theories -- tell a different story. A story in which all the major villains, it turns out, have one thing in common: government.

That's right. From the "Community Reinvestment Act" that pressured banks into affirmative-action lending, to those "government-sponsored enterprises" Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- who bought up all the resulting subprime loans and repackaged them as "investment grade" securities -- the greasy thumb-prints of government were all over this fiasco from beginning to end.

But those, as I say, are facts. And facts have no place in the fantasy world of Democratic policy-makers. Nor does history -- true history, that is, as opposed to the public-school propaganda that teaches, for instance, that FDR's New Deal got usout of the Great Depression, when in reality it only deepened and prolonged it.

But the question remains: What can those of us in the fast-dwindling, Reality-Based Community do to survive financially as the Obamacrats prepare a "New New Deal" that threatens to outspend the original by about ten thousand to one?