Posted on 11/29/2010 8:02:02 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This week marks the beginning of the end of the long national nightmare known as the 111th Congress. Republicans were given a second chance—by default—through a national effort to stop the destructive Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda.
House Republicans are poised to begin making the same kind of business-as-usual mistakes that relegated the party to minority status in 2006. The most glaring example is the looming threat of having Rep. Fred Upton (RINO-Mich.) become chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, despite his liberal voting record, simply because he’s next in line.
If there is one thing voters made absolutely clear this election cycle, it is that the era of entitlement politics is over in the Republican Party.
Upton’s liberal voting record is a textbook example of why Republicans were kicked to the curb. From taxes to energy to federal government land grabs, Upton is no conservative.
Upton’s proudest energy achievement is co-authoring the ban on incandescent light bulbs with über-liberal Rep. Jane Harman (D.–Calif.).
A big believer in global-warming-consensus “science,” Upton told a Subcommittee on Energy and Environment hearing in 2009—just last year—that the global warming debate is over: “I have said at nearly every climate change hearing that for me I don’t dispute the science. Right or wrong, the debate over the modeling and science appears to be over.” (Transcript page 7.)
“Right or wrong”? If the science is wrong, we should just go with it anyway?
A closer look at Upton’s energy voting record reveals a job-killing liberal aligned even more closely with Nancy Pelosi on energy and environmental issues. A small sampling:
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
He’s a bad choice, but he’s only one Congressman.
I want that damn ban on lightbulbs lifted. Upton shouldn’t be chairman of ANY committee.
Upton is, at his core, a RINO JUANnabie.
This is a symbolic matter. Upton is SO BAD that if he is given that job, it means that the leadership has learned NOTHING. And that they ALL need to be kicked out in the next election, starting at the top.
NO UPTON on the energy and commerce committee. On pain of a swift revolt by the base.
Thank you, Connie Hair, for making this clear.
Watching this one closely. This could be the go signal. If leadership (the tanned crying leader) doesnt avert this one is speaks loudly.
Unfortunately, he’ll chair a House committee in the next Congress. Thus, almost no energy legislation will move forward over his disapproval. Fortunately, he’s 57 years old, so if the Republicans retain control, he almost certainly will leave office in the next half-century. Best hope for losing him: defeat him in a primary challenge. Better yet, redistrict him into oblivion.
WWDD.....what would the dems do? They would shuffle a pro-life Democrat off to Buffalo. He would get nothing, he would be skipped over for a “young bull” that would help move an agenda forward.
I read some of his work, this man has no business being in any kind of position to influence agenda.
I think John Boner needs to hear from us on this one.
PING!
Don’t forget that Bush signed that that 1997 assclown energy bill that took away your light bulbs.
Don’t forget that Bush signed that that 1997 assclown energy bill that took away your light bulbs.
Gee. How did he do that?
Did the evil Bush somehow take over the person of Bill Clinton even when he was still governor of Texas?
It was actually a 2007 assclown bill.
Michigan has some positive history in redistricting.
Remember David Bonior?
We now own:
Governorship
State House
State Senate
Attorney General
Secretary of State
And the MI Supreme Ct.
Fred is dead, no worry.
Thanks, hate when that happens.
This is one decade many will want to forget, too.
http://republicans.resourcescommittee.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=215818
In Case You Missed It - CQ Weekly: A Burst of Energy For Natural Resources?
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 29, 2010 -
A Burst of Energy For Natural Resources?
By Margaret Kriz Hobson, CQ Staff
CQ Weekly
November 28, 2010
“Doc Hastings, a 69-year-old former paper executive from Washington state, has kept a low profile during his 16 years in the House, working on the lesser-known Rules and ethics committees and earning a reputation as a party loyalist. But as the 112th Congress prepares to convene, Hastings is stepping from the background into the spotlight as incoming chairman of the Natural Resources Committee. And his profile of late has been anything but low.”
...”The full House Republican Conference will vote on Hastings’ proposal to transfer authority for energy issues to the Resources panel in the coming weeks. And even if the Republicans don’t expand Hastings’ legislative reach, his unexpected and bold power grab signals that his mild-mannered days may be past and that he intends to put his stamp on federal energy policy.”...
If he’s next in line, and that’s how they do it...at least he won’t driving Mr. Bohner around...
:)
“Hastings makes his pitch to break up the Energy and Commerce Committee” by David Freddoso 11/29/10 1:47 PM
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/11/hastings-makes-his-pitch#ixzz16mzPtSlz
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