Toledo Rep. Marcy Kaptur received $3.5 billion to vote for the Waxman-Markey bill. As reported by the Washington Times,"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."
To paraphrase James Carville, "Drag a $3.5 billion bribe through the halls of Congress and there’s no telling what you’ll find."
While some say that Waxman-Markey will never pass the Senate because of economic considerations, remember we said that:
* Every politician has his price; and
* President Obama is printing money like there’s no tomorrow.
(Green Hell Blog, July 10)
