“Blue Dog” turns green
Melissa Bean, IL-8th, speaks about climate change legislation. (Photo by Step It Up 2007).
Bill Foster had enough horse sense to figure out that the Cap-and-Tax bill was bad news for America and the 14th district, which will shed nearly 5,000 jobs as a result of it, according to one study. Melissa Bean, on the other hand put nonsense before horse sense and voted for the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Tax bill, under which you can expect to pay a hell of a lot more for gasoline, electricity and everything else.
She used to be a Blue Dog Democrat, that is to say, a fiscally conservative Democrat, but now I suppose we will have to her call her a Green Dog Democrat, and leave it at that.
The bill will likely fail in the senate, and its passage in the house ironically does serve a couple of useful purposes. First, it eliminates Mark Kirk as a candidate for statewide office. He’s not going to get through a Republican primary having voted for this thing. Secondly, it gives a Republican candidate an edge over Melissa Bean. Nationwide, the percentage of the population that supports the Cap-and-Tax bill is less than a third. I’m sure the breakdown in the 8th district is no different.
Who wants to pay more for gasoline, electricity and groceries? This is on top of the inflation (stagflation?) that will inevitably arise from Obama’s monetary printing press. And how much longer can it be before the global warming hocus pocus is discredited? We have waited patiently for the tides to turn, and they are turning.
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I am ready to help oust Melissa Bean. Also, Mark Kirk should be toast now.