Beck runs with irrelevant Treasury memos to accuse Obama of cap-and-trade "cover-up," "outright lies"
September 17, 2009 6:19 pm ET
From the September 17 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
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1761/365 = $4.82 a day
which I guess is still more than $.40... but eh
She caught the defendant in 1 lie. She then announced that she could no longer believe anything they told her.
So, simple. Too bad the ignorant and stupid can't apply this rule to Beck.
How many lies will it take before people we can no longer believe anything he says.
Here are links to the truth.
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/cap-and-trade-cost-inflation/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/16/AR2009091603524.html
From the GOP's own web site. Even they aren't entirely in agreement with the inflated cost estimate.
http://www.gop.gov/wtas/09/05/01/drudge-report-highlights-cap-and
His memo has no relevance, but once gain why let facts in the the way of another smear attempt on Obama.
Here is what cap and trade really means: Emissions trading (or emission trading) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. It is sometimes called cap and trade.
And he holds up a mail stamp! WOW!
What do you all think of his latest push: the 56 Refounders.
I'd suggest that you do a bit of reading on the guy that Beck stole all of his big ideas from . . . he was also a documented liar and he was also crazy. W. Cleon Skousen was his name. Beck prepared the foreword in a reprint of Skousen's book, 5000 Year Leap.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/
Are you kidding? Refounding is simply going back to how this country was founded. President Obama wants to "fundamentally transform" this nation into something matching his vision. Obama feels it is his duty to correct what he thinks are fundamental flaws in the Constitution. There is someone promoting treasons, but it's not Beck.
I've read The 5000 Year Leap. It is heavily laced with religious significance. I don't remember it endorsing Mormonism though. Can you disprove anything that is sourced in that book?
If you don't think that's a dangerous prospect, then perhaps you should read what one of the Founding Fathers said about it:
If a General Convention were to take place for the avowed and sole purpose of revising the Constitution, it would naturally consider itself as having a greater latitude than the Congress.... It would consequently give greater agitation to the public mind; an election into it would be courted by the most violent partisans on both sides ... [and] would no doubt contain individuals of insidious views, who, under the mask of seeking alterations popular in some parts ... might have the dangerous opportunity of sapping the very foundations of the fabric.... Having witnessed the difficulties and dangers experienced by the first Convention, which assembled under every propitious circumstance, I should tremble for the result of a second, meeting in the present temper in America.
[From a letter by James Madison to G.L. Turberville, November 2, 1788.]
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWTD0bSIiAg
Start at around 2:33
There are many things wrong with 5000 Year Leap . . . so many things that the Mormon church tried to distance itself from Skousen, just like the FBI did and every other entity which ever had anything to do with the lunatic. He was stark-raving mad and when something in the nation's history didn't fit his own particular version of what it SHOULD have been, he just made it up. He was a documented liar.
There's nothing wrong with this country as it is. And yes, someone like Beck could quite easily be seen as promoting treason.
Be sure keep that little tinfoil hat perched firmly atop your pointy little head. You're going to need it.