IT is just a new way to tax the people. I am so sick of these fools in Washington. I spent the better part of the day watching CSPAN. Do they even realize that people are watching? At one point there was an amendment with over 300 pages that nobody had read. This amendment nullified parts of the bill and none of them knew what was changed. Still they pushed the vote. IDIOTS that's what they are IDIOTS!!!!!

I was watching the last 2 hours before the vote, it is absolutly unbelievable this trash passed.

There was a 309 page amendment added at 3:09 am, the republican leader simply read excerpts from it as an argument agains the bill and the stuff he was reading was horrifying.

Some of the highlights: All houses before being sold will have to have an energy efficiency audit, and all inspectors will have to be retrained at taxpayer expense. If the house does not meet the standards of the bill the seller is required to get it up to code at their cost.

All new houses are to be built with a certain number and size and locations of electrical outlets for electric cars.

Every city village or town will have to have an energy efficiency czar to enforce the regulations.

Derivatives laws were repealed, ones which I am sure might get in the way of the fortune the banks are going to make selling Carbon derivatives.

The bill will give more money to fannie and freddie for green mortgages, preferred financing to get people into energy efficient housing.

The bill mandates for every year for at least the next thirty the percent of power that most be purchased from alt energy. It also allows up to 20 year contracts be signed for providing such energy - so of course we are going to be locked into outrageous rates because of these long term contracts while alt energy costs our high due to the infancy of the industry. There was so much more, we are really screwed.

EVEN THE EPA said the bill WILL INCREASE pollution.

Most estimates say it will cost at least 800 billion and cost at least 2 million jobs. Based on what I heard I think it will be even more than that.

If people would just take the time to watch cspan a few times, they would be so sickened that not 1 member even reads bills like this the whole country might turn around.

I think this is the worst bill to pass for our economy since the passage of the creation of the IRS.

The fourth of July this year should be set aside as a day of mourning for a nation that lost the will to be free!!!!

Why do you think they are talking about Michael Jackson on CNN and other "news outlets" 24 hours a day? They know exactly about the disastrous effect this will have on the economy and the people are not supposed to find out about it. This is absolutely outrageous.

Do you realize that this is the SECOND major bill passed by these turds, without READING it?

What in hell do we need these people for?

We could send a single monkey with a stamp and do as well.

What a bunch of fraking crooks!

They will be laughing all the way to the bank if this passes. I know algore is going to be making BILLIONS off this POS.

It's official: Obama is the worse president in history.

Americas back was broken a long time ago.

Bush, Cheney and Obama have all played a part in destroying this country and we all sat back and did nothing to stop them.

Energy-climate bill be the straw that breaks the democrats,

I see the democrats loosing 4 to 8 seats in the senate. And 5 to 10 in the house.

The recession spending will not have done much and taxes will be raising to pay for the stimulus.

Wages will be dropping as companies find that they can hire people for less because there will be long lines of people that will take any job for low wages just to have work.

The banks will tack on new fees on your money.

Health care will still be screwed up and if the democrats do come up with a plan it will only help a few and most people will be forced to buy into insurance that can not afford on top of the new taxes and lower wages.

The US will still be in bad shape in 2010 and 2012 and the people will take it out on the democrats by voting them out.

They will find out that Obama's change is something they don't want and can not afford.

If the democrats even think about more gun control laws or bans that will add even more voters against them.

There comes a time where large number of laws that affect a few pile up and start affecting many.

As I said in a previous thread: Americans, my countrymen, turned out to be nothing but a bunch of spineless chicken # punks. Yeah some gather in the streets and wave their cheaply made plastic flags (Made in China BTW) for some feel good I love freedom bull crap protest. But when it gets down to defending freedom we Americans deserve everything we get. So, go BBQ and watch some baseball; it's summer.

Carbon credits will be the new currency of the world. We are all doomed.