Cap and Tax

June 26, 2009

Cap-And-Tax Passes House Despite Last Ditch 300 Page Switch

Marc Sheppard

The largest and most wasteful tax-hike in the history of this republic 
just passed the House by a vote of 219 to 212.  And while 44 wise 
Democrats crossed party lines to vote against it, 8 Republicans actually 
forgave an unforgivable 3AM airdrop and voted for this abomination anyway, 
giving the numbskulls one more yea than they needed  Well know their 
names, and perhaps their inducements, soon.

The last minute chicanery was revealed to the public this morning on 
C-SPANs Washington Journal, when Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) announced that 
the Democrats had dropped a 300 page amendment into the cap-and-tax bill 
at 3AM this morning.   The congressman had no idea what was contained 
within the eleventh hour changes, and assumed the bill would go to the 
floor with his fellow legislators equally ignorant.  And the villains who 
crafted the last-ditch switch likely hit the sheets this morning 
anticipating a likewise uninformed vote.

But Minority leader John Boehner spent over an hour on the House floor 
this afternoon exposing the contents of the amendment. And he itemized its 
provisions for wealth realignment and government intervention into 
literally every miniscule aspect of Americans lives that are so 
implausible, so outrageous, so over-the-top insane, that it was hard to 
imagine that this bill  which was considered a toss-up all day  would have 
any chance of survival in a rational world.

Alas, we live in no such world.

It appears the Blue Dogs came through.  The Yellow Skunks did not.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/06/capandtax_passes_house_despite.html