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The US House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) tonight with a vote of 219-212.  You might know this bill better under its more common name of “cap and trade.”

The Dems snuck a 300-page amendment in at 3:00 am, and I don’t believe for a minute that it was read.  In fact, the bill is over 1200 pages long, so I sincerely doubt it’s been read.

Since this blog is all about my opinion, I don’t feel the need to be fair and give you both sides.  Instead, all you need to know is that it’s a bad bill, and unless it’s stopped in the Senate, it will be a bad law.

Don’t take my word for it, though.  Here’s what the Heritage Foundation thinks about it:

“The architects of ACES argue that the bill will create millions of clean energy jobs and help Americans save on energy costs, but in reality it will do just the opposite. Using taxpayer dollars to invest in inefficient energy sources while artificially driving up the costs of reliable energy with a cap-and-trade program will only cause more economic pain for the consumer—with no environmental benefit to show for it.”  Read more…

Here’s Henry Waxman, (D - CA), co-sponsor of the bill.  Here’s a picture of him, so you’ll know what the guy that caused your taxes to go up looks like.

And here’s Edward Markey (D - MA).  He looks constipated to me.  This was probably taken ten or fifteen minutes before he and Waxman went into the men’s room in the House and squatted together to poop out the steaming pile of crap that is ACES.

Not since Elvis posed with Nixon after receiving an honorary law enforcement commission has a dead rock star been so intertwined with a sitting politician.

Michael Jackson’s death blew Mark Sanford’s adultery off the front pages with all the power and fury of a Category 5 hurricane.

And pity Farah Fawcett, who died the same day.  The networks hadn’t even had time to get the tributes to the former Angel cued up and promoted when the “King of Pop” drops dead, and smothers whatever attention could be brought by her death to cancer awareness.

And what does it say about us as a society when people will wail and mourn and grieve for a twisted, plastic, accused child molestor while standing idly by while “President” Barack Obama and the Congress hijack liberty and insert soft tyranny in its place?

Someone on Facebook said it best, when she said she “think(s) the death of an American soldier is more news worthy than the death of a celebrity pedophile.”

Hear, hear.