Is your Congressman one of the Democrats that brilliantly voted against the Crap and Trade bill?  Have you been crowing with delight, because you think that you are represented by an (and this is an extremely rare occurrence) intelligent Democrat?  Have you pledged to vote for the Dem again, and again, because he/she voted “the right way”.

Don’t go to the voting booth, just yet.

Would you believe that Pelosi gave them permission to vote “no”, so that they could trick their constituents?

Do these people lie every time their mouth opens?

Analysis of Waxman-Markey vote from around the web.

In an excellent analysis (complete with interactive map), National Journal‘s Ron Brownstein notes:

“Of the 49 House Democrats who represent districts that McCain carried last year, fully 29 voted against the measure. By contrast, just 15 of the 207 Democrats from districts that Obama carried last year voted against the bill. (Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings, whose district backed Obama, did not vote, meaning “Obama Democrats” ended up splitting 191-15.) Put another way, while 59 percent of the Democrats from districts that McCain carried voted no, just 7 percent of Democrats in Obama-majority districts opposed the White House on the vote.

“Similarly, seven of the eight Republicans who supported the measure represent districts that backed Obama last November. (The list included Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois, who’s considering a bid for the president’s former Senate seat, and Mike Castle of Delaware, who may run for the seat vacated by Vice President Joe Biden.)”

How the shell game worked – Pelosi allowed the Dems with shaky constituents (McCain voters) to vote last.  That way, when they voted at the end, they already knew that the bill already had the votes that it needed.  There was one exception to this rule.  One “brave” (description from the MSM that briefly stopped talking about Michael Jackson) Congressman from a shaky district, stepped up early to cast his vote “yea”.  He was met by rounds of enthusiastic applause from his party.  But, the rest of the shaky guys waited to the end to vote “no”. 

Pelosi is having her cake, and eating it, too.  And the Americans will be starving….

She was able to ensure that the bill passed, and (she hopes) dupe millions of voters into continuing to elect their Dem who so bravely voted no….  Like a cat playing with a mouse, until she decides that she is hungry. 

Additional comments on the Crap and Trade bill – I have previously discussed how it will effect every homeowner in the country, when they try to sell their home.  (The hopeful seller will have to pay for an inspection by the feds.  The feds will determine if the house lives up to efficiency standards.  If the house fails inspection, the feds will not allow the house to go up for sale, until inefficiencies are fixed).

The Feds will base their efficiency standards on a California model (because CA is just doing so well at this point).  But, the actual definition of what is efficient is a “floating” standard.  As an example:  you pay the 8K to replace all the windows in your home with new, more efficient and within code, windows.  Two years later, you try to sell your home.  Problem:  the standards changed within the two years, and you have to fork over 8K (at least) again for windows to replace those that are only two years old….

And – Michelle Malkin has also written about a “fill in the blank” section in the Crap and Trade bill.

When I live-blogged the House debate on cap-and-tax last Friday, I noted the existence of a “placeholder” in the bill. Rep. Joe Barton mentioned it was unprecedented to have such a mechanism (allowing bill-writers to insert language to be determined after the law was approved) in a bill up for final passage. Later, I noted that Barney Frank explained on the floor on Friday that the placeholder in the cap and trade bill apparently will deal with regulations of financial derivatives market associated with reducing carbon emissions. Frank said he was confident a “good system will be in place.”

The idiots in Congress voted on a bill, that has a “to be determined later” section.  And Barney Frank is involved.  Maybe the idiots should have actually read the bill.

Where is the fine print czar when you need him?

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