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The Obama Timeline: Part II

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Although Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) had previously stated that the House Judiciary Committee, which he chairs, would consider investigating the activist group ACORN, he is pressured not to proceed. Conyers tells the Washington Times, “The powers that be decided against it,” but refuses to name names. Attorney Heather Heidelbaugh, who has been documenting ACORN’s fraudulent and illegal activities, asks, “If the chair of the Judiciary Committee cannot hold a hearing if he wants to, (then) who are the powers that he is beholden to? Is it the (House) leadership, is it the White House, is it contributors? Who is ‘the power’?” (Testimony by Heidelbaugh at a March 19 hearing had prompted Conyers to consider holding ACORN hearings. The pressure to cancel an ACORN investigation is certainly related to Obama’s decades-long association with the leftist organization. When ACORN was investigated by Congress in 1996–1997, substantial irregularities and abuses were uncovered. (Conyers’ wife Monica, a member of the Detroit City Council, pleads guilty to felony bribery charges on June 26. Conyers states he did not know his wife was accepting bribes. A substantial number of news stories about the events neglect to mention the party affiliation of the Conyers.) [3611, 3657, 3726]

 

Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA), who thought he could boost his chances of reelection in 2010 by leaving the Republican Party and following the Obama/Democrat parade, finds his popularity plummeting. A Franklin & Marshall College poll released on June 25 shows Specter’s good/excellent approval rating dropping from 52 per cent (in March) to 34 per cent (in June). Only 40 per cent of Pennsylvanians say he deserves reelection, down from 28 per cent. [3680]

 

Obama states, “We don’t yet know how any potential dialogue will have been affected until we see what has happened inside of Iran.” [3640]

 

During the evening of June 26 the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (the Waxman-Markey bill), which will impose burdensome cap-and-trade regulations and fees on the economy in the interest of “preventing global warming,” passes in the House of Representatives by a vote of 219–212. The enormous bill—essentially a national energy tax—is rushed through in time for legislators to go on their July 4th vacations. (It is unlikely that any legislator read the bill, which contains more than 1,200 pages.) Eight Republicans vote for the bill and 44 Democrats vote against it. (The eight Republicans are Mary Bono Mack, Mike Castle, Mark Kirk, Leonard Lance, Frank LoBiondo, John McHugh, Dave Reichert, and Chris Smith.) Considerable pressure is needed from Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to get it passed. Pelosi states, “We passed transformational legislation which takes us into the future.” Sponsor Edward Markey (D-MA) says, “It has been an incredible six months, to go from a point where no one believed we could pass this legislation to a point now where we can begin to say that we are going to send President Obama to Copenhagen (to attend a global warming conference) in December as the leader of the of the world on climate change.” Republicans are quick to criticize the bill, emphasizing that it will destroy jobs, raise prices, and do nothing to affect the climate. Congressman Brian Bilbray (R-CA) says sarcastically, “I look forward to spending the next 100 years trying to fix this legislation.” House minority leader John Boehner (R-OH) states, “This is the biggest job killing bill that’s ever been on the floor of the House of Representatives. Right here, this bill. And I don’t think that’s what the American people want.” Boehner stalled passage of the bill for hours by reading 300 pages of amendments—that few Congressmen had read and even fewer likely understood. Obama praised his fellow Democrats for taking a “bold and necessary step.” The legislation is likely to have a more difficult time in the Senate, even though the Democrats have 60 votes and can prevent a filibuster. The legislation will destroy jobs—although no one can be certain how many or how soon—and more than a few Senators will think twice before risking their careers simply because Al Gore believes in man-caused global warming. The more economic damage the legislation causes, the more Democrats will lose their bids for reelection. [3612, 3615, 3631, 3758]

 

An evaluation of the Waxman-Markey bill by Americans for Tax Reform estimates that the legislation will dramatically increase the national debt, with the average American family’s share exceeding $116,000 by the year 2035. And according to the latest global satellite data, the earth’s average temperature has dropped .74 degrees Fahrenheit since Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, was released, and Americans need not look far to find areas that have had record cold temperatures in the summer of 2009. [3643, 3763]

 
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