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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we have talked extensively here about the cap-and-trade bill and the fact that nobody read it, particularly the 300-page amendment that was dumped on the floor of the House at 3:09 a.m. Friday. Well, a member of the press has read it. His name is Edward Felker. Edward Felker has read the 300-page amendment. Let me give you this excerpt: ‘When House Democratic leaders were rounding up votes Friday for the massive climate-change bill, they paid special attention to their colleagues from Ohio who remained stubbornly undecided.\u2019 The reason is that Ohio is a coal state.\u2019 House leaders, Henry Waxman, ‘finally secured the vote of one Ohioan, veteran Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, the old-fashioned way. They gave her what she wanted — a new federal power authority, similar to Washington state\u2019s Bonneville Power Administration, stocked with up to $3.5 billion in taxpayer money available for lending to renewable energy and economic development projects in Ohio and other Midwestern states.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So they basically… They bought her off with $3.5 billion, folks. One vote! It cost $3.5 billion for her to turn her back on her state, in exchange for a pile of money that she can lead in handing out, which is going to guarantee her reelection for all of this mythical new energy technology. Now, here\u2019s the bottom line. We talked about this earlier in this week. If there were profit in any of these alternative ‘green\u2019 energy things, they\u2019d be done right now. See, energy is… It\u2019s hard to lose in the energy business unless you go into ‘green.\u2019 There\u2019s no market for it, it doesn\u2019t work, and it\u2019s too expensive. There is profit in energy because everybody needs it. Everybody needs gasoline. Everybody needs an air-conditioned or heated house. Everybody needs it. Every business needs it. Everybody needs it. <\/p>\n

You cannot lose money in the energy business. So if the people who are in the private sector, the energy business… I mean, they want to make a profit, they want to serve customers and so forth. If there were a way to do it with all of this childish ‘green\u2019 windmill solar stuff, it would be there, folks, and it isn\u2019t. So how is it going to get into the market? It\u2019s going to get in the market this way: they give Marcy Kaptur in Ohio $3.5 billion for her vote, and then she gets to pass out the cash. Let me read it to you again: ‘$3.5 billion in taxpayer money available for lending to renewable energy and economic development projects in Ohio and other Midwestern states.\u2019 So, if Fred J. Schlub claims that he\u2019s got a brilliant idea on doing some new thing with a windmill or solar power, all he\u2019s gotta do is call up Marcy Kaptur and say, ‘I want some of the $3.5 billion.\u2019<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not how inventions occur. That is not how innovation takes place. There\u2019s not one innovation! I take it back. I take it back. Maybe I could name two or three innovations off top of my head that were government mandated. One, of course, is the nuclear bomb. The other is going to the moon. But essentially, the government does not sit there and decree, ‘Okay, you invent high-definition TV. You invent a car that does 70 miles an hour and it costs the same as a car…\u2019 That\u2019s not how it happens. So if they pay $3.5 billion for one vote from Marcy Kaptur, how much did it cost to get other recalcitrant members of Congress to go along with this? Henry Waxman included the Kaptur project — $3.5 billion that she can pass out to a bunch of schlubs who are going to be gaming the system, which is how the whole global warming thing got started, by the way. ‘You want a grant to study the whole science? Fine. You have to agree that man is causing the placenta to warm.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Any time you take money from somebody — I don\u2019t care if you borrow it or you accept it as a gift. Any time somebody gives you something, they\u2019re going to want something for it. This is why when people say, ‘Rush, why don\u2019t you run for office?\u2019 I say, ‘I couldn\u2019t do it, folks.\u2019 I could not do it. I could not. I don\u2019t want to be that obligated to people who make campaign contributions because they\u2019re gonna want a payback somehow. They\u2019re going to want an ambassadorship, or they\u2019re gonna want to have dinner 14 nights a week. They\u2019re going to want to do this and that. Or they\u2019re going to demand something in policy or whatever. They\u2019re gonna demand it be back. We saw this happen: these eight Republicans who voted for this abomination. <\/p>\n

Why? ‘Cause they got a lot of campaign money from environmentalist wacko groups that traditionally give money to liberal Democrats. Money is the mother\u2019s milk of politics. They were given huge donations from the environmentalist community and they had to pay it back with the vote. It\u2019s maddeningly frustrating. So Waxman includes this Kaptur project, a 310-page amendment to the legislation that was dumped on everybody at three o\u2019clock in the morning on Friday, which was just hours before the thing was scheduled to be voted on. And there were a bunch of other vote-getting provisions, large and small, that had been sought by dozens of wavering Democrats. So in a place of legislation that, again, we\u2019re told we can\u2019t do without…<\/p>\n

‘We can\u2019t delay this. It\u2019s too important!\u2019 Just like TARP, just like the Porkulus bill, ‘It\u2019s too important. We can\u2019t delay it.\u2019 It\u2019s nothing but earmarks. Think of it as nothing but a collection of millions of earmarks. That\u2019s what these pieces of legislation are being, or ending up being — which is business as usual, by the way. The difference this time is nobody\u2019s reading the legislation. They don\u2019t care what\u2019s in it. The aspects of the legislation that deal with the so-called issue at hand, in this case stimulus or global warming, are irrelevant. It\u2019s the givebacks. It\u2019s the earmarks. It\u2019s the pork that secured the votes for all this. That\u2019s why your phone calls weren\u2019t listened to. That\u2019s why outrage from constituents over this bill was ignored. Because it wasn\u2019t about global climate change in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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