Cap and Traitor Mark Kirk Struggles To Explain Vote | Bucks Right

Illinois Cap and Traitor Congressman Mark Kirk has issued a rambling 1,300 word diatribe filled with excuses and buck passing as he struggles to explain away his vote on the disasterous Cap and Trade bill.

Kirk, like 7 other so-called Republicans, joined the far left wing of the Democrat party to approve HR 2454, raping the tax payers with a law the Wall Street Journal estimates is the biggest tax ever imposed in America.

Kirk spends a part of the nearly unreadable piece defending his vote under the “something needed to be done so do the absolute worst thing possible” clause of the Constitution (I don’t remember that section myself), part of the piece attributing qualities to the bill that it does not possess like energy independence, part of it lying about the phony junk science involved in the global warming hoax, and part of it explaining that he knew it was a shit bill but the Senate will surely come up with something better.

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There is now a growing scientific consensus that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide affects average temperatures. According to the National Academy of Scientists, carbon dioxide levels rose to a high of 290 parts per million 130,000 years ago, causing a 20 degree increase in temperature. As carbon dioxide levels fell, so did average temperatures.

Truthdig - Reports - Warming Up a New Politics?

Hours before the House passed its cap-and-trade bill last week, freshman Democrats Tom Perriello and Frank Kratovil were pondering the political fallout of the votes they were about to cast in favor of a plan Republicans were denouncing as “cap-and-tax.”

“Maybe we should be called the conscience caucus,” said the 34-year-old Perriello, who won his southside Virginia district last year by 727 votes even as Barack Obama was losing it by 7,512.

He recalls Kratovil, 41, replying that perhaps they would be known as the caucus of soon-to-be-unemployed congressmen.

Kratovil, who narrowly won a Maryland district that Obama lost to John McCain by 18 points, does not remember his precise reply to Perriello. But he acknowledges that “it would have been easier politically not to take that vote.”