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Friday, July 16, 2010

Depression Era Cartoon Shows This is 'Same old Same old' With Tax and Spend Liberals

Almost a hundred years and their song and dance hasn't changed a whit!!

This cartoon was in the Chicago Tribune in 1934. Look at the plan of action for the 'progressives' of that era. The only difference is these people weren't brain damaged from a lifetime of acid flashbacks and the likes this group is obviously suffering from.

^ Read the agenda ^ right above here....Same shit different day

Remember the adage, "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it" .

It also shows the rhetoric even on our side may perhaps be a bit bombastic and old as well to be intellectually honest, which points to why we need to hire new people and be done with the career politicians forever with term limits. We should demand them from here on out.

Thanks to my old friend Joy for the email on this ; )

No more Pelosi's McCain's, Reid's, Kennedy's, Kerry's , I mean the list is never ending.


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Friday, June 25, 2010

BREAKING:Washington Compost Slime Weigel Resigns

This is the scum who uttered that "Matt Drudge should set himself on fire and he's long been a covert liberal posing as a conservative for this rag. I've hated this newspaper ever since Watergate.

WASHINGTON POST STAFFER: DRUDGE SHOULD SET HIMSELF ON FIRE...

Here's a lengthy compilation of his raging hate filled anti conservative emails that led to his bailing like the pussy troll he is. There's 20,000 conservative writers out here who are real conservatives but a so called top level newspaper hires a freaking liberal posing as a conservative.

What jack asses these newspaper people are and that's why I quit the Chicago Tribune 12 years ago as these rags have all been carrying liberal water for an entire generation now and that's another reason why I blog. To show that a man who used to print the damn papers can write it just as well if not better than ones they hire to do it even then, and especially nowadays.

We hated most of these people in the pressrooms back then, and I imagine they do even more so today than ever, seeing their liberal bias is bankrupting the industry. It isn't the internet.

FIRST ON FBDC: FishbowlDC has confirmed that WaPo conservative-beat blogger Dave Weigel has resigned after a slew of his anti-conservative comments and emails surfaced on FishbowlDC and Daily Caller over the last two days.

A spokesperson for the Post said the paper will not offer additional comments but confirmed that the writer's resignation was accepted.


The should have fired HIS ass long ago as everyone knew he wasn't a conservative except the dumb asses that run that dump.


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Thursday, June 24, 2010

More evidence Left 'Loves' The Oil Spill | Paul McCartney chat |

That's all you can say when you hear them make these wacky comparisons
Some people don't believe in climate warming - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
..as they spend all their time exploiting the spill for their cause that will make all these "spokespeople" who are already rich, richer. Much much richer. In power and treasure.

Yet you look at all the uncovering of evidence of a conspiracy with these top global warming people and the stuff emerging about Al Gore on top his starting the global warming scam,the kind of this tribe, and they still march lockstep as if that crap was all true..

McCartney starts out saying he understands why American's might be mad at Britain or BP but then makes that dumb statement that's in context down below.

THE shocking images of oil-covered wildlife and ruined beaches across the Gulf of Mexico have horrified millions. But passionate green campaigner Sir Paul McCartney believes the environmental disaster may have a silver lining, with the search for clean, renewable energy now being pushed forward.

The Beatles legend said: "Sadly we need disasters like this to show people. Some people don't believe in climate warming - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.

"But the facts indicate that there's something going on and we've got to be aware of it if we want our kids to inherit a decent world, not a complete nightmare of a planet - clean, renewable energy is for starters."

Read more:Exclusive Paul McCartney chat | The Sun |Features

If the right did this after a disaster they'd be excoriated in the press and elsewhere, yet the left makes hero's out of these people. I love McCartney's music and that's the end of that.

Again these people always think they have some patent on the way to fix everyone else's lives with legislation/ as if you can ever legislate common sense.


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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Al and Tipper Gore History Just Like Global Warming... ( will split 'the internet' between them....)

Well, he claimed 'he invented it' kind of...

He certainly implied it along with 100's of other embellishments and outright lies.

I'm sure everyone remembers Tipper's "Music Censorship" attempts back from the "Slick" Administration days No?

Yet they can't hold their own marriage together in spite of all the hundreds of millions of "ill gotten gains' from the Global Warming Sham he created not to mention this "Chicago Climate Exchange" which trades air and CO2 emissions like a play Monopoly Game.

Except it's as "real as a heart attack" which Glenn Beck has been exposing.

Perhaps they're splitting the money so when people start suing his ass for all this 'climate sham' they can't get all of it.

Just a thought. I mean' they were "So in love" that that Eric Segal penned Love Story about the couple ...Oh yea I forgot, that was another one of his lies....

..like this sham picture from the Democratic Convention when "Bush stole the election" in 2000 which I've tweaked to resemble what they were probably really thinking.......

Al Gore and wife Tipper, are separating after 40 years of marriage. NBC News confirmed the split Tuesday.

According to an e-mail circulated among the couple's friends and obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, the Gores said it was "a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration."

Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider confirmed the statement came from the Gores, but declined to comment further.



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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Another politician falls on his 'pocket sword', Rep. Souder. Nov can't come soon enough/

How is it every family and person I know has never cheated on their wives or they're like me and they stay single, it's like pick one or the other if you insist on being in public life.

Especially supposed ethical lawmakers making rules for the rest of us they can't dream of adhering to themselves.

This moral decay isn't as pervasive in everyday America because not one of my family or friends has this going on. Yes we're all sinners, but these sinners are telling us what to do each day along with robbing us blind with no moral compass anymore in upper levels of American social circles I guess like it's always been. I just always hoped we were evolving but we're not.

Only technologically. Otherwise most of the 'well to do' are still basically neanderthals reacting on every want and urge without regard to consequence.

It's in politics, entertainment, sports, the the three places in American social stratus were money flows like the champagne and caviar, which leads to this apparently. Look around us and the littered landscape of ruined lived and careers over lack of self control among the ruling class.

These people unfortunately are causing Western Society to collapse around OUR necks more each day.

Here's a video made with he and his mistress advocating abstinence if you can believe that ....




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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Tea Party Hit Rand Paul Wins GOP Senate Primary in Kentucky / Acceptance Speech

 Big Win.

FOX News...Tea Party favorite Rand Paul defeated Republican establishment candidate Trey Grayson in Tuesday's GOP Senate primary in Kentucky, giving the anti-big government movement its most significant political victory yet.

With 31 percent of precincts reporting, Paul was leading with 59 percent of the vote to Grayson's 37 percent.

Grayson called Paul to concede the race, Paul campaign manager David Adams told Fox News.

Paul is a 47-year-old Bowling Green eye surgeon who had never before run for office and turned to the Internet fundraising model used by his father to pay for his campaign. Grayson stayed competitive drawing heavy financial support from traditional GOP donors inside Kentucky.

The Kentucky primary is one of several high-stakes Senate races in three states that political analysts are closely watching to determine the mood of the country's electorate less than five months before November's elections in which Republicans will seek to regain control of both houses in Congress.FOXNews.com


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Friday, May 14, 2010

Sarah Palin: "Don't Mess With the Mama Grizzlies" taking back the country from Obama's Gangster Disciples.

This is a good speech by her, and funny as well as I heard it earlier in a speech Palin gave to a Susan B Anthony List breakfast crowd which you can see here as Rush gave this a shoutout a little while ago on his show Friday I'll put here later when it's posted by Limbaugh's folks.



(NECN: Washington) - Former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, this morning addressed a pro-life reception at the Susan B. Anthony List's "Celebration of Life" breakfast.

"Women are standing up and speaking out for common sense solutions...they want a better future for their kids," said Palin of women all across America.

"The policies coming out of D.C. are allowing us to feel empowered," said Palin. "Moms can tell when things are off-base or just not right."

Palin took time to defend Tea Party Americans. continued here


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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

15 mln votes wasted: UK's election crisis explained sort of...as Brown Steps Down.

This covers it for the most part as Obama's BFF gets the B-o-o-t and resigns his Prime Minister seat in order to hand off the Muslim immigrant caused messes they have there and gives to David Cameron  a chance to make things worse before the Brits get the message and elect more conservatives to finally clean up the mess all these lefties are leaving around the globe.

This was the first "hung" parliament since 1974 which is why they're carving out this deal seeing " DVD G" Brown step down and skip town so the conservative Cameron can "Sneak on In like Flynn"....


We can all thank our lucky assed stars someone cracked those emails and thus validating our charges that it was nothing more than a liberally devised wealth shifting mechanism or we may all be Global Warming Disciples whether we liked it or not . Wheew!

They, the 'lear jet liberals' are the ones who are the gravest danger to our environment, burning through our monetary supply as if they were trying to cause it to collapse upon itself. .....hint hint...





 Did you listen to all that liberal gibberish...more fair, more democratic, more tolerant, that's all liberalspeak for "please tolerate the illegal immigrant and muslim invasion so America can be white black and brown too".

Blahhh....

YouTube - 15 mln votes wasted: UK election crisis explained


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Thursday, April 15, 2010

4/15/2010 Tax Day Tea Party Videos and News

This is a great video I stumbled across today in my internet journeys checking out various youtubes and accounts of the events taking place today including an entire hour this afternoon on Neal Cavuto's show, which featured all kinds of guests from there which included FLA governor candidate Rubio via video, along with the usual folks you would hope to see out there.

And they're doing a fine job getting that anti Obama 111th Tax and spend congress out there today 




YouTube - 4/15/2010 Tax Day Tea Party: "4/15/2010 Tax Day Tea Party"

There's so much stuff going on it's almost impossible to slop it all together as I'm seeing local stuff across the net you can't believe.  I'm really impressed in that to call this movement "loosely organized" is a mis-characterization if I ever heard one.  We're more organized than the government in many respects most involved will concur. Just because there's no national office to act as a black hole for the donors' money as the RNC is finding out, although I don't want them to be at a total disadvantage in comparison to the DNC scorched earth machine.




Look at the organization here in Washington at this Tea Party site, in Washington!! I've really been studying this all day long and the amount of information is absolutely overwhelming.




They must have an army in Obama land there on Pennsylvania avenue in the basement reading all this stuff, because America is "armed and dangerous" with peaceful protests even in liberal states like this one which used to be the heart of the heartland, now it's the Obamahole or bunghole if you prefer, same diff.!


There's two protests here in Chicago and that stuff you can start to check out here.

That's the Northwestern University website there I linked, that's like liberal loon central over there man!! It's everywhere if it's on that campus, honestly. That's almost as liberal as University of Chicago where you find the Ayers's and the Michelle Obama's hanging out before D DAY Jan 2, 2009/.

We also have Michelle Bachmann coming here to Oak Brook Illinois for an event which is west of Chicago proper, you can see about that below...It's a pay event but  I just may head out there with a buddy and check it out.

Please respond to rsvp@chicagorepublicanparty.com with the number attending.
The minimum donation is $75. Checks and credit cards will be accepted at the door.

As the evening progresses we'll add news as it appears across the Chicagoray Batcave wires here in Loonyville central in my liberal free bunker in Buffalo Grove Illinois pictured here  ; >)




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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Crook County IL Alert: Daley Debuts New $1.8 Million Web Site | Meanwhile People Starve

People starving, children dying on their way or at school weekly it seems, and the City spends 2 million on their freaking website when I know people who would do it for a tenth of that easily. Obama's recently pulled the same crap, in fact... a couple times.

He spent 18 million on the Recovery.scam website which comes out to like $200.000 per freaking job it's created!! Probably half of them at the company who built the website ...18 million dollars for a bunch of stuff that most people know along with lots of subliminal propaganda and on and on.

This is really angering beyond belief when Chicago has the highest sales taxes in the country, if not the world I would imagine.

I'll bet you this much,  the original Library of Congress was probably stocked and BUILT for less than 18 million dollars. I'll bet anything.

Talk about the "same old shit - different day" with these loons, and then they all whine their individual Utopia's are ALL GOING  BANKRUPT!!!! EVERY FREAKIN LIBERAL CITY and NOW THE COUNTRY!!!

So yes it is the same old shit, yet today's a different day but nothing changes with these "tax and spend like drunken liberals"  liberals.

Absolutely un_freaking__believable_!!!!!
"HOPE AND CHANGE"?
...MY ASS IT IS!

Daley Debuts New $1.8 Million Web Site

NBC Chicago: "The City of Chicago has a brand new YouTubing, Facebooking, Twittering destination meant to serve everyone’s governmental needs.

Mayor Daley’s office Friday unveiled an overhauled web site, cityofchicago.org.

The $1.8 million revamp streamlined the site to make it more “people centric,” and has options to pay bills online, apply for city licenses, sign up for email alerts and the like.

It looks like they’ve taken a hint from the White House, which overhauled its site when Obama landed in Washington, because there is a bevy of social media elements on the site, including easy links to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

There’s also Wi-Fi hot-spot locator which allows users to search out easy computing destinations.

City business is also supposedly easier to find. The web site has links to new legislation and the budget.

Still no link to the city’s shadow budget and links to TIF fund districts are difficult to navigate and don't all work properly (not surprising), but that's ok becasue there are these fun facts about the city to distract users."


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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Morning Show Highlights Focus on Economy / Obamacare Scare (video)

Politico's Sunday morning show roundup;  it worries me when I see these people working on the weekends, the weeks are bad enough. These people for the most part didn't work on the weekends after 911 this hard,  but they're in there now a month straight on weekends mind you putting things through that "we the people" would reject in referendums for sure.

Bi partisan the liberal way means "their way" or "the union paved highway".




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Monday, November 30, 2009

Mike Huckabee On O'Reilly Explains Alleged "Killer Commutation" (Video)

I buy this explanation completely where he only reduced the man's sentence from 103 years to 47 which then made him parole eligible but he was still incarcerated. That he takes complete responsibility for like a man....unlike many others in the case like the long line of liberal activist judges who really coddled him ....




Then he (the killer to be) applied for parole at a later time at the recommendation of the Arkansas parole board with a 5-0 vote, and he was then cut loose much later after the so called "commutation"..

In other words, it's not his fault and a long line of  liberal parole people coupled with a little liberalism on Huckabee's part trying to be a good Christian as well caused the perfect storm. But then the guy moved to Washington State and committed 8 felonies up until this murder spree and was out on bail for raping a 12 year old relative.... What a mad dog who should have been put down after the 3rd felony.


Liberalism Kills....




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Monday, September 14, 2009

NJ teens sue over 'God Bless America' ejection

I'm not into forcing people to sing the National Anthem, God Bless America or anything else for that matter..

However, that doesn't mean I didn't get a kick out of seeing these punks getting the boot from Private Property mind you for refusing to sing God Bless America at a minor league baseball game..

What I do mind, is then of course comes the frivolous lawsuit being filed by the whiny bitch teens through the opportunistic ACLU I'm sure who never misses a beat when it comes to whizzing in the eye of America and what it stands for about 80% of the time.

In a nutshell.......

"Nobody sits during the singing of 'God Bless America' in my stadium," the lawsuit quotes Cetnar as saying. "Now the get the (expletive) out of here."

Cetnar denied saying that: "Never, never did that ever happen."

Cetnar said he hasn't seen the lawsuit, but called the boys' account "a huge fabrication."
Whatever they did, I'm betting they deserved to get the boot because 5000 other people didn't get shown the door.

My Way News "TRENTON, N.J. (AP) TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Three teenagers who say they were tossed from a New Jersey ballpark over their refusal to stand during the song "God Bless America" are suing the minor league Newark Bears.

The boys argue that their constitutional rights were violated when they were asked to leave Newark's Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium on June 29 by Bears' president and co-owner Thomas Cetnar.

Cetnar acknowledged the boys were asked to leave but declined to say why. He also has denied making some statements attributed to him in the lawsuit.

The boys - Millburn High seniors Bryce Gadye and Nilkumar Patel, both 17, and junior Shaan Mohammad Khan, 16 - sued in federal court on Friday seeking unspecified damages.

According to the lawsuit, the boys were seated behind home plate when the song began playing. Once it ended, they say Cetnar approached them yelling.

"Nobody sits during the singing of 'God Bless America' in my stadium," the lawsuit quotes Cetnar as saying. "Now the get the (expletive) out of here."

Cetnar denied saying that: "Never, never did that ever happen."

Cetnar said he hasn't seen the lawsuit, but called the boys' account "a huge fabrication."

The boys are being represented by Bryce Gadye's father, Ross, who said the boys weren't protesting the song and no one asked them to stand.

"The boys weren't trying to make any political statements, they just didn't get up," he said. "No one gave them an ultimatum. The song was sung, it was finished, then they were thrown out."

"God Bless America," written by Irving Berlin in 1918, was played at big league ballparks throughout the country when baseball resumed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and has remained a fixture at New York Yankees games.

In July, the Yankees and New York City settled a lawsuit with a fan who said he was ejected from Yankee Stadium by police after he left his seat to use the bathroom during the playing of "God Bless America." The city did not admit liability in the settlement, but agreed to give the fan $10,001 and pay $12,000 in legal fees. The Yankees changed their policy, and fans at the team's new stadium are allowed to move freely during the song.

Gadye declined to let his son be interviewed, saying he was concerned about his safety over reaction to the lawsuit, which was first reported in The Star-Ledger of Newark.

"They've been getting all kinds of mixed reaction," he said. "Both gung-ho and 'We want to kill you.'"

"I think what makes it so horrible is that they were publicly humiliated for exercising a right that was guaranteed to them by the United States Constitution," Gadye said.

The sides differ on talks they had after the incident.

Ross Gadye said he met with general manager Mark Skeels and James Wankmiller, a co-owner, following the incident. He said they apologized and offered and free tickets, but Gadye said the boys wanted an apology from Cetnar, who was not at the meeting, and sued when there was no resolution.

Wankmiller, who declined to talk about whether the boys were asked to leave the ballpark and why, said they offered to meet with Gadye's son and the other boys and never heard back from them. He said it boiled down to money.

"We offered to sit with him and find out what his beef was and he asked for money," Wankmiller said. "That was about it."

Neither side would respond to the other's version of how the talks played out.

Even if the boys win their lawsuit, it's unclear if they'll get much money from the minor league team. Developer Marc Berson sold the team to California-based Bases Loaded group last year after the team filed for bankruptcy.


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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The Obama Agenda Bogs Down -

Democrats got what they wanted in the stimulus bill. The public knows it.

One can only hope, work and pray that more and more headlines like this appear on the horizon in the disgraced media, as any slowing of this Neo Marxist Obama agenda will help save the country until we figure out how to get him removed from office from some sort of fraud and outright lying to all Americans for the duration of the 2 year campaign season right through this morning (that means all of us, conservative, liberal and or otherwise)

Fred Barnes knows the break of the DC green and talks about Obama's slowing agenda thank God
The Obama Agenda Bogs Down

WSJ.com: "It usually doesn't happen this quickly in Washington. But President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are finding that the old maxim that what goes around, comes around applies to them, too. Less than six months into his term, Mr. Obama's top initiatives -- health-care reform and 'cap and trade' energy legislation -- are in serious jeopardy and he has himself and his congressional allies to blame.

Their high-pressure tactics in promoting and passing legislation, most notably the economic 'stimulus' enacted in February, have backfired. Those tactics include unbridled partisanship, procedural short cuts, demands for swift passage of bills, and promises of quick results.

With large majorities in Congress and an obsequious press corps, Mr. Obama was smitten with the idea of emulating President Franklin Roosevelt's First 100 Days of legislative success in 1933. Like FDR, Mr. Obama tried to push as many liberal bills through Congress in as brief a time as possible."

He made a rookie mistake early on. He let congressional Democrats draft the bills. They're as partisan as any group that has ever controlled Congress, and as impatient. They have little interest in the compromises needed to attract Republican support. As a consequence, what they passed -- especially the $787 billion stimulus -- belongs to Democrats alone. They own the stimulus outright.

That makes them accountable for the hopes of a prompt economic recovery now being dashed. With the economy still faltering and jobs still being lost, Mr. Obama's credibility is sinking and his job approval rating is declining along with the popularity of his initiatives. Republicans, who had insisted the stimulus was wasteful and wouldn't work, are being vindicated.

The political fallout that mattered most, however, has been among Democrats in the House who will face tough re-election fights next year. They're in a state of near-panic over the lingering recession. Their confidence in Mr. Obama is fading, and they no longer believe in quickly passing the president's agenda. Cap and trade has been put off until the fall and health-care reform is starting to stall.

For Mr. Obama, this is all a potentially disastrous turn of events. On Capitol Hill, delay favors the opposition and tends to lead to defeat. The longer a bill sits around, the more its contents are dissected and the less likely it is to pass. Mr. Obama realizes this fact, which is why he is pressing for a quick vote on his health-care reform.

His plan has been to exploit the economic downturn to enact his entire agenda, not just the stimulus. The president's position, which he repeated again this week, is that his health, energy and education reforms are necessary to create a sustainable economic recovery. It's a clever political argument, but it makes little economic sense and few people buy it.

That's not all. The stimulus is such a large increase in spending that it turned the deficit into a political issue. There is a growing national wariness to adding billions (or trillions) to the budget, even for a relatively popular cause like health care.

Had Mr. Obama and Democrats proceeded differently, they'd have better odds now for enacting their agenda. They are victims of their own tactics.

Republicans hold 41% of the seats in Congress. That's a position of weakness, but not completely powerlessness. Rather than ignoring GOP proposals, Democrats might have been better off giving Republicans 20% of the stimulus funds to spend. Republicans probably would have spent it on tax reforms that encourage economic growth. Had that happened, the stimulus might have provided a mild boost to the economy by now.

Or what if Democrats had heeded Republican advice and trimmed the size of the stimulus? The economy wouldn't be any worse for it, but the deficit and public fear of it would be smaller.

During the presidential campaign last year, Mr. Obama said he was committed to bipartisanship. But congressional Democrats aren't, as he surely knew. They rejected input from House Republicans on the stimulus -- without a peep of protest from the president. Minor concessions to three Republicans gave them the 60 votes to pass the bill in the Senate.

The president's vow of bipartisanship wasn't the only promise to crumble. Democrats said they'd give Republicans (and the public) 48 hours to read a bill before a vote. But the final version of the 1,071-page stimulus package was unveiled in the House at 1 a.m. on Feb. 13 and passed later that day after one hour of substantive debate. Every Republican voted no. The Senate vote came 16 hours after the three renegade Republicans agreed to an amended version of the stimulus.

In urging fast action, Mr. Obama sounded apocalyptic: "If we do not move swiftly to sign the [stimulus] into law, an economy that is already in crisis will be faced with catastrophe. . . . Millions more Americans will lose their jobs. Homes will be lost. Families will go without health care."

Once the stimulus passed, Democrats said the impact would be practically instant. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) predicted "an immediate jolt." Economic adviser Larry Summers said, "You'll see the effects almost immediately." White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said it would "take only weeks or months" to be felt.

A similar sequence of appeals, claims, promises and a speedy vote was followed when the cap and trade bill, which would put a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions, came before the House on June 28. The bill's architect, Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.), presented a crucial 300-page amendment at 3 a.m. It passed 16 hours later.

But even that was not fast enough. Mr. Waxman was irritated by House Republican leader John Boehner's hour-long address in opposition. As Mr. Boehner spoke, Mr. Waxman demanded he be cut off. He wasn't, but after Mr. Boehner finished, Mr. Waxman asked the presiding officer, who was then Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D., Calif.), how long the "two minute speech" had lasted. "The customary amount of time" for the minority leader, she replied.

Mr. Waxman's testiness won't make final passage of cap and trade easier. Nor will the Obama administration gain from its crude attempt last week to punish -- and silence -- Sen. Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.) for saying the stimulus should be cancelled. Four cabinet members wrote to his governor, Republican Jan Brewer, to ask if she wanted to forfeit stimulus money for her state.

Mr. Obama's health-care and energy initiatives, the core of his far-reaching agenda, were bound to face serious opposition in Congress in any case. Hardball tactics and false promises have only made the hill he has to climb steeper. Now he may lose on both. The president and his congressional allies should have known better.




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