Cap & Trade Aftermath

Here are two articles for you to review about Friday's Cap-and-Trade environmental vote in the House. The first from http://www.teapartypatriots.org/ and the second from http://www.thenextright.com/.

8 Republicans who voted for Cap and Trade
The following republicans voted FOR the largest tax bill ever passed by a session of Congress. Any good work they have done has been for naught. They will for ever be a member of the Cap and Tr8tors. HR 2454 RECORDED VOTE 26-Jun-2009 7:17 PM BILL TITLE: American Clean Energy and Security Act 1) Click on their link. 2) Select the 'Contact' tab. Contact their local office as they are not in DC and home on vacation.
Mary Bono Mack R (CA)Mike Castle R (DW)Mark Steven Kirk R (IL)Leonard Lance R (NJ)Frank LoBiondo R (NJ)John McHugh R (NY)Dave Reichert R (WA)Chris Smith R (NJ)

#capandtr8tors is the Twitter tag to use on this topic.

Cap and Tr8tors - Website dedicated to the removal of office of the 8 Republicans who voted for the Cap and Trade bill. How they voted across the board. - Official government website showing how they voted.

The successes of the anti-cap-and-trade movement
Submitted by Soren Dayton on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 03:02
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Americans for Prosperity
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I was struck on Thursday and Friday of last week by the extent to which activists on the right were deeply engaged on the Cap and Trade bill that narrowly passed the house last Friday.
The thing is, the media has not played this issue up. The same week that the House voted on the bill, President Barack Obama held a prime-time townhall on healthcare. Even the conservative media was mostly engaged primarily with the healthcare debate. Obama and the Democrats played and won the media cycle war.
But the conservative groups, especially Americans for Prosperity, and conservative blogs like Redstate and others kicked in. From both Republicans and Democrats, we heard about enormous call volume coming into the House. This provided a robust whip-like mechanism.
Activists understood that they were the difference between this bill passing and not.
Now the fight moves to the Senate. Already, we see Obama caving on key provisions of the deal that kept protectionist Democrats together. It is hard to see how the Democrats find the votes, especially when they need full support from the Midwest to keep their caucus together.
And next time, it is hard to see how the issue is kept under the radar. The American people will be much, much more deeply engaged.
Soren Dayton's blog