Republicans in Congress will spend the Memorial Day recess attacking Democrats for pushing a cap-and-trade bill that could raise Americans’ transportation and energy costs wrote The Hill on May 23, 2009.
“Democrats and the Obama administration have said that putting a price on carbon emissions is the best way to wean the country off of foreign oil and stem global warming while also creating new jobs.”
“The attacks on the Democratic energy proposals is part of a larger GOP effort to paint the Democrat-led Congress as big spenders who backed a $787 billion stimulus plan and are now pushing an energy tax and a “government takeover of healthcare,” according to House GOP talking points.”
Not much new about any of this. Republicans just naturally call anything the Democrats do as too expensive, socialistic, and an expansion of government. All the same things the Republicans did while they controlled the White House and Congress.
One of those Republicans who took off during the Memorial Day recess to attack the “cap-and-trade bill” was our own Republican Congressman for Nevada’s District 2, Dean Heller.
He went to Elko to deliver the Republican Talking Points on the subject of “cap and trade.”
He said “his constituents are overwhelmingly against President Obama’s ‘cap and trade’ proposal, which he said would cost the average family of four about $3,200 more a year on their electric bills.”
Heller said at one of his teleconferences 400 people polled were opposed to the cap and trade proposal and 32 supported it, indicating that from other polls there was quadruple that number.
Columnist Dennis Myers takes issue with Heller. See the Pahrump Valley Times when today’s issue goes online. He under took to check Heller’s assertion out. In Carson City, Heller’s hometown, of 30 people asked by Myer, “Not one of them was familiar with the term” cap and trade. Myers wondered how Heller could find 400 people in one conference call that recognized the term? Myers was told by Republican friend of his “that those who participate are screened to be ‘like minded’ (to Heller).” In short it wasn’t a valid poll. Myers’ friend said “poll questions are asked in language that seems designed to elicit certain responses.”
Myers’ asked Heller’s office for the wording of the “cap and trade” question, but got no response.
How about you. Can you explain just what “cap and trade” means and what it is about? Neither can I. [Wikipedia] Nor, I daresay, does Dean Heller. Try reading the Wikipedia coverage of cap and trade and tell me you understand it.
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The Angriest News Team on Television [Fox News]
Today, June 10, 2009, 35 minutes ago | John Cook via Gawker
Don Broderick, an angry white male who works for Fox News, drove into a Central Park bicyclist with “psychotic intent” last week and dragged him four blocks. What is it with Fox News’s angry white (plus Geraldo) guys?
Broderick is just a lowly news writer at the news network, but his dangerous alleged antics last week hardly constitute the first time that a Fox Newser has exhibited difficulty keeping the lid of civility on his barely restrained rage. From Shepard Smith’s eerily similar tale of ramming a pedestrian with his car to Bill O’Reilly’s legendary outbursts to Geraldo Rivera’s pugilistic streak, a common thread runs through the network’s mostly white staff. Maybe it’s due to the stress of working for Roger Ailes, a maniacal militarist who demands total loyalty and perfection. Maybe it’s because Fox News’ aggrieved, rage-fomenting editorial stance attracts aggrieved, rage-filled people. Maybe it’s because Ailes likes to hire entitled jackasses who think its OK to run people over when they are inconvenienced. Whatever it is, bitter and barely hinged people who really liked Michael Douglas’ performance in Falling Down are overrepresented at Fox News. Here are some of them.
Bill O’Reilly
What can you say? There’s the mic-cutting, there’s the time he f**ked it and did it live, there’s the time he called us “despicable, slimy, and scummy,” there was the time he threatened to hit Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and break their fingers off, and—jesus, just watch this.
Glenn Beck
He’s angry, and sad, and laughing all at the same time. Which is clinical. Doesn’t he remind you of Susan Powter?
Brian Wilson
In 2005, when he was the network’s congressional correspondent, the “bizarrely angry” questions Wilson was barking out during a Howard Dean photo op caused the Washington Post’s Mark Leibovich to wonder of Wilson—whom he didn’t recognize—was a GOP staffer. When Leibovich asked Wilson who he was, the Fox Newser shouted back: “Who the f*** are you?” Then he stalked down a Senate hallway shouting obscenities.
Shepard Smith
Recently, Shep has been the sole voice of reason on Fox. But back in 2000, while covering the Florida recount battle, Smith rammed his car into a fellow reporter who was attempting to reserve a parking spot for her colleague. He “shouted some profanities at her and basically just struck her, striking her at the knees, which threw her up on the car,” a Tallahassee cop told the St. Petersburg Times. He was charged with aggravated battery with a motor vehicle; the charges were later dropped.
Geraldo Rivera
He’s not white, but he’s still angry! He’s said he would spit on Michelle Malkin if he saw her, and challenged Ketih Olbermann to a fight, calling him a “pussy” and threatening to “make a pizza out of him” (pizza?).
Russell Rhodes
The morning anchor for Tampa Bay’s Fox affiliate doesn’t technically work for Fox News, but he does work for Roger Ailes, who runs Fox’s stations. So we consider it relevant to the matter at hand that in January, Rhodes was pulled over in a parking garage for driving recklessly. When he got out of the car, his pants were undone, and he tried to run away from the cop three times and refused to hand over the keys, forcing the officer to “take him to the ground.” He was arrested for DUI and resisting arrest.
Aaron Bruns
Trafficking in the depraved sexual abuse of children is angry, right? Aaron Bruns, a Fox News producer who was “embedded” with the Hillary Clinton campaign last year, was arrested in February on charges of possession of child pornography. Just about 10 years after he was arrested in Michigan for distributing child pornography.