House Dems whip up Cap-and-trade-and-tax-and-regulate

Pelosi is cracking the Whip to get votes for cap-and-trade. This is one last chance to tell Congress how awful this bill is. Gene Green is for the bad bill that will surely cost jobs in his district. This very bad bill is an attack on American prosperity. Also, it contains Corrupt Contradictions designed to buy votes. Rep Gene Green, you deserve to be fired in 2010 along with every single Democrats (and the few Republicans) who vote for this horrible monstrosity. Those businesses and groups that have sold out to sell this dangerous and flawed bill also need to suffer the consequences of support a bill that will tax American energy use and export American industrial production to China and India.

Dems scramble for votes:

During the last votes of the day, Markey, Texas Rep. Gene Green — a very reluctant supporter — and Caucus Chairman John Larson leaned over Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar in a heated discussion until Cuellar finally shook Markey’s hand and the huddle broke up. That scene played out again and again throughout the day as Democrats felt the full weight of the White House and its leadership bear down on them.

Tilting at Green Windmills by George Will informs us that in Spain Green Jobs Means Lost Jobs:

Calzada says Spain's torrential spending -- no other nation has so aggressively supported production of electricity from renewable sources -- on wind farms and other forms of alternative energy has indeed created jobs. But Calzada's report concludes that they often are temporary and have received $752,000 to $800,000 each in subsidies -- wind industry jobs cost even more, $1.4 million each. And each new job entails the loss of 2.2 other jobs that are either lost or not created in other industries because of the political allocation -- sub-optimum in terms of economic efficiency -- of capital. (European media regularly report "eco-corruption" leaving a "footprint of sleaze" -- gaming the subsidy systems, profiteering from land sales for wind farms, etc.) Calzada says the creation of jobs in alternative energy has subtracted about 110,000 jobs from elsewhere in Spain's economy.

Countering Obama press secretary Gibb's discounting of this report, Will challenged:

Judge for yourself: Calzada's report can be read here. And here you can find similar conclusions in "Yellow Light on Green Jobs," a report by Republican Sen. Kit Bond, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy.

Elsewhere we find out:

Democratic leadership aides expect five to 10 Republicans to vote for the bill, including California Rep. Mary Bono Mack, who supported it in the Energy and Commerce Committee. Other Republicans that Democrats hoped would cross over include Mike Castle of Delaware, Vernon Ehlers of Michigan, Mark Kirk of Illinois and Dave Reichert of Washington.

Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and his team are working hard to hold as many moderates as possible in order to force more centrist Democrats to back the legislation. Those efforts focused on some of the same members being targeted by Democrats, like Castle and Kirk, but also other lawmakers from environmentally friendly corners of the country, such as Wisconsin Rep. Tom Petri.

Last chance to stop it is Friday - call the Congressional switchboard -

Tell your Congressman to vote against H.R. 2454., the Waxman-Markey legislation.
We don't have a moment to delay.

Congress is going to vote on Cap and Trade legislation, which even Democrat John Dingell (D-MI) says is "a tax and it's a great big one."

Democrat Charlie Melancon (D-LA) says, "I believe this bill would create an undue burden on families who are already paying too much in energy bills."

Democrat Mike Ross (D-AR) says of Cap and Trade, "'If you don't like $4-a-gallon gasoline, you're really not going to like your electric bill sometime between now and 2030."

Go here, put in your zip-code, and call now.

Mark Levin has this list.
CALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AT 202-224-3121 AND TELL THEM NO TO CAP AND TRADE

Repubs:

Bartlett (MD)

Bono Mack (CA)

Castle (DE)

Dent (PA)

Ehlers (MI)

Frelinghuysen (NJ)

Gerlach (PA)

Inglis (SC)

Tim Johnson (IL)

Kirk (IL)

Lance (NJ)

LoBiondo (NJ)

Petri (WI)

Platts (PA)

Ros-Lehtinen (FL)

Democrats:

Altmire (PA)

Bright (AL)

Dahlkemper (PA)

Drieshaus (OH)

Ellsworth (IN)

Kissell (NC)

Kratovil (MD)

Kanjorski (PA)

Minnick(ID)

Teague (NM)