Behold, the Hoeven-Corker amendment, up for vote Monday, coming in at 1,200 pages
The Hoeven-Corker amendment to the Gang of Eight bill is essentially a new bill. It is almost 1,200 pages long. Some parts of it are identical to some of the provisions of the original Gang of Eight bill, some parts are very different, and some parts are slightly different in ways that could prove very important but difficult to understand in a hurry. But it has to be understood in a hurry. Given the length and complexity of this proposal, I think it is fair to say that not more than a handful of the senators voting on it on Monday—which is apparently when the vote is scheduled—will really understand it in any detail. There is almost no way any of the senators voting on it could have read it all, and it’s unlikely even their staff members could do so in a thorough and responsible way in that time. Only the people who wrote it will know what it says, and I imagine it was written in parts by numerous people from several Senate offices. That means there is probably no one who really knows what it says. It also seems likely that, if the amendment is adopted on Monday, the vote on the final bill would come too soon thereafter to allow CBO to re-score the much-amended bill, and so to offer some sense of how things have changed in terms of costs, economic effects, future immigration flows (legal and illegal) and other key issues.
Is this any way to make such an important set of decisions about the country’s future?
Of course it is, if one is a True Believer in the Fundamental Transformation of America into Not America.
Why let something so trivial as Liberty or The Constitution stand in the way of Won’s wish list?
President Obama on Tuesday will lay out his long-awaited plan for second-term, executive-level actions to combat climate change.
His speech is expected to include a pledge to curb carbon emissions from existing power plants, a top priority for environmentalists, according to a person briefed on the remarks and a Washington Post story Saturday.
His top climate adviser said last Wednesday that the plan would address energy efficiency, expanding clean energy on public lands, and using various “tools” – including the Clean Air Act – to address climate.
Climate advocates have long pressed the Environmental Protection Agency to begin writing rules to curb emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of power plants, in addition to rules floated in draft form last year that apply to new plants.
Mendacious Leftists accuse conservatives of wanting to turn back the clock to what they perceive is the repressive 1950’s.
But the Left-luddites want to go back to pre-industrial times.
Obama, in his short remarks released Saturday announcing the speech, called addressing climate a “serious challenge” but added it’s “one uniquely suited to America’s strengths.”
He said the country would need scientists to design new fuels and farmers to grow them.
“We’ll need engineers to devise new sources of energy, and businesses to make and sell them,” Obama said.
This is science?
And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride …
Obama is not a good man.
The climate has already “fixed” itself, so now Obama has to try to glean some credit where he is due none.
The god-king has let his wishes be known. You people had better hop to it and fulfill them.
And the laws of physics had better change too. This stuff isn’t going to happen otherwise.
you can’t grow energy on a farm. you can only convert one form into another.
[…] ought to resign and allow a better American that truly understands the role of Congress to serve. Jeff Goldstein has the Hoeven-Corker amendment, which is, 1,200,pages long.It is supposed to “fix” our broken immigration system. Who […]
The same idiots who want us to convert food to fuel also want to ban GMOs… all the while, the world’s population continues to increase. The Malthusians will make their predictions of doom come true if it’s the last thing they do.
Oh, yeah!? What about ethanol!?!?
/You can’t fix stupid
Before you know it, Spiny, Norman Borlaug will be Worse Than Hitler™!
gangbanger news
Schumer predicts mass demonstrations if House blocks path to citizenship
alinsky losers
Dem Strategy: Climate Change Opponents Must Be ‘Ridiculed’
If the House — following the good sense of the people — refuses to denigrate citizenship into meaninglessness, and therewith to promote lawlessness into the highest good, they will be found out of touch with the times, says Sen. Schumer. For the times demand the end of distinction, of reason, of order. We will have absurdity. It is written (in multi-thousand page “laws”).
ethanol is for drinking, as God intended.
Fixed.
I’m confident that Chuck-You Schumer is in contact with local
gangsterscommunity organizers to see that this happens on cue.Guess who said it: “Schumer’s been incredible. He’s a worthy successor to Ted Kennedy, and that’s saying a lot.” Go on, guess. And then try to tell me the GOP is anything but a con for leading gullible conservatives and Pollyannas down the primrose Progressivist path.
Here I stand, gobsmacked: Gregory to Greenwald: Why Shouldn’t You Be Charged With A Crime?
That’s messed up, Pablo. Where’s Daniel Ellesberg on this?
Why should he bother to change a law when he can just ignore it like all the others?
“convert food to fuel”
I resemble that remark. Thankyouverymuch.
Where’s the DC Attorney General on this? Oh, yeah.
The difference between Gregory and Greenwald? Gregory actually committed a felony.
So Dear Leader is confident that he’s done enough damage that now it’s time to control the weather?
Fabulous news!
Lady Liberty
Drowned at Sea
And washed up on her island,
For all to see.
So how does she stand,
With her torch in her hand?
Taxidermy.
What cruel
Fear wrought tower
Of iron and sin
Offends the eye
wrapped in
Fair Liberty’s skin? *
*boy! (Mareen Dowd edition)
Humpty Dumpty approves.
effin’ delusional
Graham: Gang’s Bill Necessary for GOP to ‘Get Reattached to Hispanics’
If it were found one of the Unicorn Prince’s ancestors was Lewis Carroll, I would just keel right over dead from lack of surprise.
NR, that would be something to see: two leeches feeding off each other.
Der Spiegel, without apparent embarassment, jumps into the act of what Plato might well have called “Saving the Non-phenomena”: Why Is Global Warming Stagnating?
Next issue: “Why hasn’t Emmanuel Goldstein murdered half of Oceania in its sleep?”
at least the titanic went down quickly
Fun Factoid: 2013 Amnesty “Penalty” Less Than The 2007 Version
the last effing thing we need is a bunch of beggars on horseback
horses are scary enough all by themselves
What all is behind the various climate crisis? Sure, there is a desire for power over others, but there appears to me to be another factor, which is a desire for people to think they have the ability to control their environment. That is, if human activity can affect the climate for the bad, it might also mean that we can affect it for the good. If that were true, then people would not have to feel so helpless in the face of Mother Nature.
The truth is we are helpless. Mother Nature doesn’t hate us or love us, she is indifferent to us. I think for some people, that is too much to take, so they need to invent a situation in which they can make Mother Nature happy so she will leave them alone. Thus, we have Man-made Climate Change Believers. They are almost as destructive as Islamists, and no one knows what they may morph into in the future.
Look at all of the other crimes that have lighter penalties/can be waived when committed by an illegal alien if this wreck of an immigration reform bill passes.
http://www.fairus.org/_blog/Immigration_2013_Reports_and_Research/post/crime-pays-under-s744/
Global warming is just another scam. Buying absolution with carbon credits?
proggtardia news
Revealed: U.S. Justice Department and New Hampshire’s Criminal Investigation of James O’Keefe’s Voter ID Video
The Ruling Class Consensus On Domestic Spying
by Angelo M. Codevilla
thank you for the link Mr. narciso I will share it with my patterico pals posthaste
Re: NR’s O’Keefe link — I do believe we’ve found Phil Spector’s younger brother.
Video: James O’Keefe Confronts NH Attorney General
RichardDickHead Over Being Indicted For Exposing Voter Fraudoops i meant Mr. newrouter I got confuzzled I guess
there’s so many different commenters it’s hard to keep track
The good, the bad, and the stealthy.
There is a group of people who have read everything in the bill and know exactly how it all fits together to move their agenda ahead. They meet in the unmarked room 201.
Oh BTW, why does the National Security Council even need, much less have a “director for immigration reform?” Silly question I suppose as it is based on thinking that the NSC is about our national security which is “chump-think” nowadays in DC.
Funny, you would think that a Dir. of Immigration Reform for the NSC would be interested in beefing up our borders, better screening immigrants, etc to keep us more secure from people like the Tsarnev (sp?) brothers.
for some fun the house should impeach baracky’s cabinet and send it to the undertaker dingy harry. be too much for the orange crybaby.
meghan’s coward daddy was never a serious alternative to food stamp
he was just plan b
“he was just plan b”
oh noes he be a late term baby killin’s
that “bitch” from ak has to be doa!!11!!
We’ll need engineers to devise new sources of energy, and businesses to make and sell them
For the record, I work in power generation. I cannot clearly express how full of shit this statement is. Hey, I think that Peter Beagle is a fine author, but I don’t believe in unicorns. And that’s what this statement is: an expression of a belief in unicorns. Want a new reality? Assert one into existence.
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