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To: TimF who wrote (572045)	6/16/2010 5:52:51 PM
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Revealed: White House Scheme to Exploit Oil Spill Crisis By Imposing Nat'l Energy Tax gopleader.gov Question: Will House Democrats Support a National Energy Tax in a Lame Duck Session of Congress? Washington, Jun 16 - The Obama White House plans to exploit the oil spill crisis to force a job-killing national energy tax through Congress after the midterm elections – thereby circumventing the American people and letting a lame duck Congress jam taxpayers with one final, costly act of defiance on its way out the door. According to the new strategy, outlined this morning by Politico, Washington Democrats would pass a job-killing national energy tax “after the election” so lawmakers “don’t have to take another tough vote”: “Phil Schiliro, the White House congressional liaison, has told the Senate to aim to take up an energy bill the week of July 12, after the July 4 break… The plan is to conference the new Senate bill with the already-passed House bill IN A LAME-DUCK SESSION AFTER THE ELECTION, so House members don't have to take another tough vote ahead of midterms.” While the Beltway will immediately turn its attention to the Senate – which must pass a bill in order to move the White House’s plan forward – Americans will be asking whether House Democrats will support a job-killing national energy in a lame duck session of Congress. Last summer, lawmakers who voted for the national energy tax faced “public outrage” and blistering attacks back home. By year’s end, Senate Democrats were telling the White House to “drop cap-and-trade.” The bill was “left for dead,” and rightly so. Are House Democrats going to punish their constituents again in order to fulfill the President’s political agenda? The New York Times notes that President Obama is attempting to turn the national energy tax bill into a “political weapon”: “The purpose, though, was to go beyond the immediate and make the case that the spill justifies his plans for energy and climate change legislation, a way of turning a political burden into a political weapon. … “And Republicans quickly accused Mr. Obama of capitalizing on the leaking oil to pass a bill that otherwise seemed stalled. ‘President Obama should not exploit this crisis to impose a job-killing national energy tax on struggling families and small businesses,’ said Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader.” Sure enough, liberal special interest allies are already sharpening their knives, casting last night’s speech as a “political boost” for the national energy tax. But as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) put it, “The climate bill isn’t going to stop the oil leak.” Right now, as the Obama Administration plots to exploit a crisis made worse by their own failings, oil continues to leak from the well and extend its stranglehold on the lives and livelihoods of the people in the affected areas. Americans want their government to be focused on stopping this leak, cleaning up this mess, and finding out what went wrong.