We Know What You Are -- Now We Are Haggling Over the Price
I predicted the climate bill would likely pass the House as Obama and Co. would happily pull out the checkbook to spend taxpayer money to bribe Representatives to pass his legislative agenda. I wrote:
I am again hearing rumblings that the climate bill may pass the House. If so, it will be interesting to see what last minute bribes were added to make this happen. The most recent bribe we know about is the commitment to pay farmers not to grow crops with the weak window dressing that this is somehow a carbon offset.
The Washington Times reports on one such payoff:
When House Democratic leaders were rounding up votes Friday for the massive climate-change bill, they paid special attention to their colleagues from Ohio who remained stubbornly undecided.
They finally secured the vote of one Ohioan, veteran Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, the old-fashioned way. They gave her what she wanted "“ a new federal power authority, similar to Washington state's Bonneville Power Administration, stocked with up to $3.5 billion in taxpayer money available for lending to renewable energy and economic development projects in Ohio and other Midwestern states.
This is part of that mysterious 310-page ammendment that was revealed just hours before the vote.
