When Otto von Bismarck said, “Laws are like sausages; it’s better not to see them being made,” he was referring to the populace, not the lawmakers. Apparently that distinction has been lost on our own Congressional Democrats. Earlier this year, our United States Congress disgraced itself by enacting a Stimulus Bill which not one of them had read.  That dereliction of duty may be repeated today as the House of Representatives votes on the Waxman-Markey carbon-tax bill.  See Will Congress Read Bills Before Voting?

Congressman, I don’t want to hear the lame excuse, “but my staff people have read it.”  No one voted for your legislative assistant; they voted for you. And Mr. President, I am tired of hearing the “emergency” and “crisis” excuses trotted out to justify repeated violations of your campaign promises.  Transparency? Bipartisanship? Post-partisanship? The only thing transparent is your agenda of rewarding supporters and punishing opponents with appropriations from the Federal treasury.

The Stimulus was a shameful collection of pork-barrel projects, earmarks, payoffs, and pet peeves.  You Washington DeeCee Democrats said it had to be passed immediately so that it could begin to help the economy right away.  Since its passage, unemployment has soared to 10 per cent, far beyond the projections being made at the time the Stimulus was not being read, and small businesses are failing so fast that the only growth industry in many localities is Bankruptcy Court.

The Waxman-Markey bill threatens to harm the American economy further.  It imposes a massive tax which will kill jobs and make American businesses less competitive.  There is no possibility that it will achieve the goal of reducing carbon in the world’s atmosphere.  Consider this basic set of facts: China and India have a combined population exceeding 2,400,000,000 persons — about eight times the population of the United States.  Even a modest increase in energy use per capita in those two countries will offset many times over what the Waxman-Markey boondoggle hopes to achieve. And China and India are having no part of this carbon-tax nonsense.

So read my lips, Congressman: ignorance is not bliss; we want no more “blind” bills.  If you vote for Waxman-Markey today, be prepared to answer for every word.