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RUSH: This is from RedState.com. Congressman Perriello from Virginia, his office told a caller that the Congressman wants there to be enough votes to pass cap and trade so he can vote no on it. Now, let me explain this to you. He wants his Democrat leadership to be happy at the end of the vote, but he wants to vote no on this \u2019cause he knows his constituents don\u2019t want it. So he wants cover. And he ended up, according to RedState, deciding to vote yes on the bill, according to his office just now. <\/p>\n

Now, the State-Run Media, NBC, is a little concerned over what\u2019s happening up there on this. Mere moments ago on Andrea Mitchell NBC News Reports show, she talked with their Capitol Hill reporter, Mike Viqueira, the State-Run Media. Her question: ‘Harry Reid says it (H.R. 2454) doesn\u2019t have any prospect of passage in the Senate–‘ By the way, the Senate just adjourned without doing anything on health care. They adjourned for the July 4th recess. They\u2019re out of there. I think I saw that on the screen. I looked at it quickly. And health care\u2019s in limbo. But Andrea Mitchell\u2019s quoting dingy Harry saying this cap-and-trade bill doesn\u2019t have any prospect of passing the Senate, ‘So why force these Democrats to take a vote like this when it isn\u2019t going any place?\u2019<\/p>\n

VIQUEIRA: Let\u2019s take, for example, a chairman, Nick Rahall, Chairman of the Resources Committee from West Virginia, a coal-producing state, it\u2019s not popular there. He\u2019s voting against Democratic leadership this morning on procedural votes. That is a heresy. And so the people that are on the fence, a lot of freshman from moderate districts look at something like that and say, ‘Why should I walk the plank and vote for this when the prospects of the Senate are unclear and more senior Democrats aren\u2019t even voting for it?\u2019 So it\u2019s a very, very heavy lift for Democratic leadership in the house.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It must be. If the State-run Media is reporting it this way, it must be. Normally State-Run Media, oh, slam dunk, they\u2019d be trying to dispirit everybody and make it look like this thing was going to happen. This is a real test for Pelosi, because if it isn\u2019t going anywhere in the Senate the question is a good one, ‘Why make these Democrats vote for this?\u2019 And the answer from Pelosi is: ‘Because I said so and I must be supported. I\u2019m your leader.\u2019 She\u2019s been threatening some of these rookies. She\u2019s been threatening some of the freshmen with no re-election campaign money from the campaign committee, finding opponents to run against them and so forth, all kinds of things. They\u2019ve really had to pay off some of the agriculture states. For example, Peterson, the chairman that we talked about earlier of the agricultural committee, he said back on May 6th: I will not support any kind of climate change bill even if you fix this because I don\u2019t trust anybody anymore. I\u2019ve had it. But now he supports it. <\/p>\n

They bought him off. He was chairman of the agricultural committee in the House who was leading the opposition to the bill. He\u2019s from the most rural part of Minnesota. He\u2019s a leading blue dog Democrat. They bought him off. I don\u2019t know how. I don\u2019t know what they bought him off with. But a guy who was dead set against it back on May 6th has been turned, but other Democrats aren\u2019t. Some of these freshmen are saying, ‘Why the hell should I if it\u2019s not going anywhere?\u2019 This is a classic illustration of to whom do they answer, you, the voters or Nancy Pelosi. And there\u2019s fear of both. I\u2019ll guarantee you something. A lot of members of Congress who vote for this thing regardless of where it goes have seen their last days in Congress in front of them. They\u2019re going to lose. The vast majority of them are going to lose re-election. And I\u2019ll tell you, James Carville sent a fundraising letter out from maybe the DNC or maybe the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, I don\u2019t remember which, but he\u2019s warning Democrats: You know what, we have the identical set of circumstances that we had in 1994 coming up in 2010. We had a young, popular president and all of a sudden we woke up on election day in \u201994 and they picked up 56 seats in the House and eight or nine in the Senate and we were cooked. The same set of circumstances exists, he said. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re worried about this. They\u2019re using it as a fundraising thing. And I do believe they\u2019re worried about it. I think that deep in the bowels of this party — and you\u2019ve got to go deep in the bowels to find these people — there are a couple of them, ‘This is just outrageous,\u2019 but they don\u2019t dare publicly walk away from their president and some of this stuff, but they look at this and this is not what they want. They don\u2019t want a future for their kids like this either. They\u2019re worried about this and I don\u2019t think the circumstances in 2010 are going to be identical to \u201994 because in \u201994 there was a bunch of corruption that people learned about, the House Bank, the House post office, and a couple of other things. The corruption that we have is still like that, but it\u2019s not as present because the State-Run Media doesn\u2019t report Democrat corruption. Charlie Rangel, folks, ought to not be in the House anymore. They\u2019ve just extended the investigation, the ethics committee. He\u2019s out there charging racism over this. <\/p>\n

A Republican would have been gone after one allegation of what Rangel did. He has homes and apartments that there\u2019s no way he can support or own on a congressional salary, for example. But, anyway, Carville points out in his letter: Look, the Republicans don\u2019t need eight or nine in the Senate. They just need one or two and they can totally block anything that\u2019s going to happen. So they are worried about that. I\u2019ll guarantee you that there\u2019s some people, Republicans and Democrats alike, who know full well. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s happening here on this bill on Capitol Hill is identical to what happened on amnesty. They\u2019re getting flooded, overwhelmed. The phone lines are busy, e-mail accounts are full, blocked out. You can\u2019t get in. They know how you feel about this. It\u2019s just that some of them don\u2019t care how you feel on this. And those are the ones who are going to pay the consequences. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. We need to make a correction. Congressman Goodlatte\u2019s office called us. He\u2019s voting no. He has always said he\u2019s voting no. And he doesn\u2019t understand how somebody in his office told a caller that they were undecided. Because he\u2019s voting no and they were always voting no. So there. I\u2019m glad to get that straight. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: From two sources on Capitol Hill I\u2019m hearing — and I fairly trust these people; they\u2019ve been fairly accurate in the past — that the Democrats right now are 12 votes short with 17 undecided. So there\u2019s 17 Democrats undecided. They need 12 of that 17. Those are not good odds, but it\u2019s not over. Trouble is brewing for them on this. This is no time to relax the pressure on this. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: From the National Review Online, the Corner, which is the name of their blog, a post by Steve Hayward: ‘Word flying around DC as of 1:30 is that Waxman-Markey is being pulled…\u2019 Now, I haven\u2019t heard that it has been. This is just ‘word flying around.\u2019 This might suggest ‘Pelosi doesn\u2019t have the votes. It may be they need a little more time to buy off one or two more people, or possibly they simply can\u2019t get enough committed votes,\u2019 because all these people are running around saying they\u2019ll vote yes as necessary, but they\u2019ve got to deal for cover with a no vote because they know what their constituents want. So that would complicate the ability of the whip to get an accurate count of how many Democratic votes there actually are. My two sources say that there are 12 votes short with 17 undecided. That would mean they would need 12 of 17 votes today, which is a pretty high percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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