FNC's Steve Doocy Presses Carol Browner on Cap-and-Trade Bill

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Via Hot Air's Ed Morrissey:

Barack Obama’s energy czar appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to discuss the cap-and-tax bill passed by the House last week on a razor-thin margin. Carol Browner got stumped by Fox’s Steve Doocy while questioning her ability to speak to the subject, which prompted her to declare Doocy “unfair” for blindsiding her. You be the judge — should Doocy have wondered whether Browner had bothered to read the bill she was promoting on national TV, or is that “unfair”?


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Yeah, doesn't Doocy know

Yeah, doesn't Doocy know that the Obama Administration expects to know all questions in advance so they can formulate the b.s answers?Oh, that's right. Doocy wasn't a plant.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

yep I saw that, and what the

yep I saw that, and what the hell is she wearing, looks like she is ready to be a quarterback for a grid iron team, is she ready for a knock down drag out with her interviewers, well they made the pass and she missed big time LOL

Hey, I caught this segment

Hey, I caught this segment early this morning here, it was delicious.

Couldn't have been done better....especially to one of the biggest enemy within that we have...she is nothing but destruction of this country...she is witch supreme, been watching this creature since the Clintoon administration, many hearings have I heard with her.

Job well done Doocy.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

I caught it too

I was only half-listening as I was getting ready for work when I heard her whine about how his question was "unfair". Normally I think Doocy is kind of a dork but I actually appreciated him this time.

More mystery legislation

Once again, we have a radical spending and regulatory bill that no one has competely read, being rushed through the Congress and sold to the public by an official with a dangerous agenda.

At least Doocy exposed Browner for the liar she is. 

 

Now that's what I consider

Now that's what I consider "NOT FAIR".  Do you agree Carol???

danbo where-ever you

danbo where-ever you are....and others,

Here is the informative floor speech Inhofe gave the day before the Markey/Waxman Cap and Trade House bill passed we were talking about a few days ago...it fits right here with Browner and these issues...trust me.

It's a keeper....watch at your convenience of course.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

His Majesty The Shahinshah's Wind-Up Doll

I saw this wind-up doll interviewed on CNBC's Squawk Box.  A pity that they did not more harshly cross-examine her for her wind-up doll ways.  She was asked a similar question there, I believe by their guest host, and she rattled off a wind-up doll answer full of the same platitudes and dumb comments, not once making an effort to answer the question.   

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Was it unfair, no.  She

Was it unfair, no.  She said she had read vast portions of it ... lib speak for I am told what it says.  She has most likely only skimmed the contents.  She is a Czar and Czars dont read things they have it summarized.  She really got flustered and tried to skirt the issue but got caught.  Liar Liar pants on fire.

Vast portions

= "Table of Contents" in libspeak.

Dan... Besides that she

Dan...

Besides that she has most likely suggested plenty that was in the bill herself, she has done as such for years and years...you do not get any bigger more destructive b!tch to this country and  capitalism/free markets on this planet than her....they get no worse, she's a total far leftist, socialist, communist, marxist, fascist, whatever you want to use....it fits Browner.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

I can't wait until Idi Amin Hussein Obama slips a surrender...

...document way into the back of one of these massive bills that these goobers aren't even reading before voting on, or worse, that maybe haven't even been written until after the vote has taken place.

Or maybe it will be a declaration of martial law? Perhaps both?

This is all very dangerous for our republic, and it must be stopped.

-Dave

Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof-Herman Cain

Must be stopped

Dave - Very much agree.

The Bill

Contents contain provisions such as reduction in oil/gas energy by 20% in a stated number of years.

Wind and solar are to replace our current resources. Ask yourself the obvious, what happens when wind and solar are not adequate? Will there will be 1) an increase in oil/gas or 2) regulation in power usage?

what does Madame Energy Czar know? 

JDW

DAILY WAVE

When people fear their government there is tyranny.

When government fears the people there is liberty.

I found appalling that now

I found appalling that now before a home is sold the government will go in and do a type of energy audit.  Anything sub par must be fixed by the seller before the house is sold.  This includes replacing appliances, storm windows, etc.

Gee, that'll be a real help in a depressed market.  What will they do about foreclosed homes, make the struggling banks do the upgrades?

These "representatives" have the foresight of a two year old.

Energy audits

Radical - It's already underway in Austin.  In fact, non-compliance could bring criminal charges.  Obama's "green jobs" monster is being built.

http://newsbusters.o...

I read the link. Amazing

I read the link. Amazing how they brag about how it's created jobs, when they're GOVERNMENT jobs.  I don't consider that job creation, that's just going to cause more taxation. 

Frightening for me because my husband buys distressed properties, rehabs them, and rents them.  This will add to his cost basis, even when buying foreclosed properties.

But hey, he's a small businessman, just who Obama's targeting.

Not only that, but they are

Not only that, but they are very coy in saying a clean energy audit will cost homeowners about $300 "to inspect windows, insulation, duct work and air filtration."

Completely left out is the cost of repairs and replacements  to fix those problems.

First cars, now homes. 

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Summer homes

I live in a lakeside community. Most people have summer houses, "camps" if you will. No insulation. No heat. No storm windows. They might have a wood stove or a fireplace; and they button the houses up for the winter.

Now, what happens when they want to sell? Having a lot of experience with the Government, I believe they will have to completely re-do those homes to make them Obama-energy efficient. Question: is this unintended, or purposely-intended consequences?

___________________________________ 

Liberals constantly demand that we accept a glaring falsehood as truth; Obama's elimination of the word "terror" will make terrorist acts less terrifying

My wife

came up with the ideal solution for this.  She said, "I'll burn it down first, before I let them do that".  Surprised me no end, the lady has become quite conservative in the last 24 months. 

Where in the constitution does it give the government the right to "audit" my house before I sell my property?  What business is it of the government's how, to whom and when I sell my house?  It's my property, not theirs.  

Rad, they'll only make those banks that didn't take TARP funds do the improvements, otherwise the new buyers will a blank check to make the repairs, and we'll pay for it.  

Your wife is one smart

Your wife is one smart woman!

Unfair....

....hell no! She sounded indignant concerning the fact that he would even question her about reading this bill. If the MSM would ask these types of simple questions, perhaps our elected officials would feel the need to actually do the work that we sent them to do; REPRESENT US!

 

President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood
style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to
be a total fraud.
 

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION! 

Did anyone read the entire

Did anyone read the entire bill?

NOBODY READ THE BILL !!!!!

this is a link to National Review Online that says NOBODY COULD READ THE BILL!!!!!!!!!                  http://corner.nation...

Unfair? of course not, as a

Unfair? of course not, as a duly elected government official...wait, let me restate that...as a duly appointed czar of energy she should have been familiar with the entire bill... instead of just the vast portions that will personally enrich her and her friends through strategically placed investments that hinge on the final passage of this bill.

Bingo! We know abut Gore

Bingo!

We know abut Gore and ilk....here's Pelosi.

Browner knows all about it.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Did the "vast" amount

Did the "vast" amount include the 3am 300+ page document dump? Of course this will add to FOX's anti-Obama reputation.

couldn't she have had her intern

give her a synopsis of the bill?  i don't expect every representative to have read every page of every bill, but they should at least have some staff member present him or her with a set of cliff notes.

 

swing hard in case you hit it.

Reading is Fun???

Read the whole thing?  Why Stevie what the hell are you thinking?  I am just a Czar of Energy, it is below my station in this administation to read it and know what is in it. 

DAMN YOU FOX NEWS FOR ASKING THE HARD QUESTIONS!!!!!

Yes Comrade Browner,

asking the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change to read a bill about energy is unfair!  This is obviously a task more suitable for the Under-Uber-Minister of Politburo Manifesto Speadreading.  Now let us all join hands and do the Dance of Universal Poverty. ///

Whether Chicago politics or now U.S. politics it is not about right or wrong but who is in charge.

Doocy should watch his back if he knows what's good...

Doocy should watch his back if he knows what's good for him.

I was thinking the same thing

He may go the way of his former co-host (E.D.) when she dared to compare Mr. & Mrs. illegal, celebrating with fisted hands in the air, to the Black Panthers!

 

Isaiah 5:20a Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil. . .  KJV

California...Cap-n-Trade & More lies

DearLeader Obama's speech on Cap-n-Trade was nothing short of TOTAL Reality Dysfunction.

This was especially true when he cited California as the model for the rest of the Nation to emulate. Things are totally wretched in this state BECAUSE of the very type of policies that Obama champions. His policies have fostered the Government induced Dust Bowl of one of the Nations largest Vegetable Gardens the Central Valley. Energy prices are among the highest in the nation, in spite of locally available domestic oil sources. Sky High unemployment. Our borders are out of control. Hospitals are closing because of the added social services. School test scores are near the lowest in the Nation. Our overall aggregate Tax rate is the highest in the Nation. And our State Government is massively in debt.

Nowhere is the Nanny State of rules & regulations as developed as it is here in CA. Obama is foolish to wish this Socialist Hellhole on the rest of the Nation, and those of you that live in other states are insane to let this take root where you live...

_____________________ 

Long Live...THE REPUBLIC !

reading the climate bill

From what I have now read about pt it is IMPOSSIBLE for this LYING B**** to have read the bill because apparantly the bill DID NOT EXIST !!!!!!! Boehner had to read passages from the dark 3:00 amendment because NO ONE HAD THE BILL !!

Senate on C&T

Great article here on Cap and Trade and the Senate, the arithmetic, likely yes votes, etc: Climate Bill Faces Long Odds in Senate: http://www.realclearpolitics.com

But then again, we didn't think it could pass the House.

Great info indeed. Tester

Great info indeed.

Tester is going to get pressure, Baucus doesn't care....he's still going to hear from us.

Btw sw....I don't know what you mean by 'we thought' it wouldn't pass the House....in the poll taken about this here...I picked 'other', because like I posted then....this is one I just don't know...and still don't.

It's terrifying if this passes though...I'll leave it at that for now.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

It shouldn't have

and it shouldn't pass the senate either. But I expect that the democrats will spend the summer planning their media blitz to push this Piece of S**t (Thanks Rep. Boehner) through. 

"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." - General George Patton Jr

Of course none of them read

Of course none of them read it..How could they when they were all watching the Michael Jackson coverage?

One would think..

Most likely she is waiting for the movie to come out. I do not think any of those in office now can read.

“Less 1984 — More 1776"

I called my Reps office yesterday....

and asked if he had even bothered reading this piece of crap before he voted on it, and I was told by his aide that had read a "summery".  When pressed on who wrote the summery, he couldn't give me an answer.  When I asked about the 300+ page add on, and if he read that, I was told, and I quote "Well, I'm sure he was told what was in it". OMG!!!  This is my life were talking about, and he voted on what he was TOLD!!!!!  Is it any wonder we as a nation, are in a handbasket heading south? 

BTW, I asked to speak to my congressman, and was told that he was out of the country on a factfinding trip.  Yeah right!! My guess is he went into hiding until the flinging cr@p stopped. 

okay-no one read the bill- i want to know

who wrote the bill- who took all the FACTS and came up with the verbiage for the bill?

BHO-  Flies and rats now inhabit the White House

 

 

 

AHHHHHHH Czars!!

Hey libs, how's that change thing working out for ya.

jessieH          

jessieH              To hold office you must be able to read, in english, what you are voting on.

Steve Doocy

In my personal opinion, Steve Doocy is the only redeeming factor left on FNC.

Bravo Steve!

 

Isaiah 5:20a Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil. . .  KJV