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A Very Mixed-Up Anthony Weiner
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While I often reserve some respect for Anthony Weiner (D-NY) due to his sometimes sensitive and sensible positions, every now and then he does something so stupid and demonstrative of such a lapse of intelligence and good judgment that it makes me absolutely livid.
The last exchange of letters I had with him on such an infuriating occasion was when he voted NO to prohibit partial birth abortion, a disgustingly barbaric murderous procedure. Considering the other abortive options still left entirely available by the bill and, consequently, that the bill did not affect cases of rape, incest, or the health of the mother, I could not for the life of me understand what motivated an otherwise intelligent person like Weiner to take such a twisted position. But, I digress…
This time, it’s the backward logic that he was babbling on the House floor regarding the Cap and Trade Energy Tax bill that got my head spinning. Either he didn’t realize the stupidity of his own words—or he did realize the stupidity of many of his colleagues in Congress and the public—when he ridiculously insinuated that opposing the bill would fund Iran and Saudi Arabia:
Ahmadinejad, the Saudi Kingdom — they want exactly what my Republican friends are advocating… We can’t come to the floor and say I’m outraged at what’s going on in Iran…and then come to the floor and continue the policies that are paying for them!
It’s a shame he had to stoop to such a level of partisan politics and sacrifice his integrity and his intelligence for something so patently fallacious.
James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal explains how Weiner apparently didn’t even know what he was voting for when he wrote:
Saudi Arabia and Iran, respectively, have the world’s largest and third-largest proven oil reserves, according to the CIA World Factbook. There’s just one problem: According to a Bloomberg report, the legislation would actually create an incentive to use foreign oil rather than domestic, by imposing a more burdensome tax on the latter:
Refiners would have to buy allowances for carbon dioxide spewed from their plants and from vehicles when motorists burn their fuel. Imports would need permits only for the latter, which ConocoPhillips Chief Executive Officer Jim Mulva said would create a competitive imbalance.
“It will lead to the opportunity for foreign sources to bring in transportation fuels at a lower cost, which will have an adverse impact to our industry, potential shutdown of refineries and investment and, ultimately, employment,” Mulva said in a June 16 interview in Detroit. . . .
The same amount of gasoline that would have $1 in carbon costs imposed if it were domestic would have 10 cents less added if it were imported, according to energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie in Houston.
UPDATE:
Now, Henry Waxman (D-CA) is getting in on the act, saying that ”they [Republicans] want to play politics and see if they can keep any achievements from being accomplished that may be beneficial to the Democrats. They’re rooting against the country and I think in this case, even rooting against the world because the world needs to get its act together to stop global warming.”
In other words, if you don’t vote for my 1500-page bill, you hate this country, and you want to destroy the world.
Someone should remind that loudmouth that gouging our citizens through energy taxes to pay for cockamamie schemes like the one he cooked up cannot possibly be very endearing to “this country”.
Furthermore, if we’re the only ones making these sacrifices while every other country is smart enough to sit this one out, then we end up being the only country that stands to lose—lose money to other countries who don’t pay these crazy energy taxes, lose jobs to other countries’ workforces who gain contracts at the expense of our energy workers, and lose productivity to other countries’ factories who don’t face such crippling overhead costs to produce goods.
If anyone is the unpatriotic partisan windbag, it’s Waxman and his cronies.