We are so screwed....
Posted on 06/06/2008 11:24:35 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Brown lambasted for opposing global-warming vote Friday, June 6, 2008 11:24 PM By Jack Torry THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH WASHINGTON — Sens. Sherrod Brown and George V. Voinovich today helped block a sweeping bill aimed at curbing global warming, ending congressional efforts on climate change until next year.
By a 48-36 vote, supporters of the bill failed to muster the necessary 60 votes to end a Republican filibuster and clear the way for final passage. Brown was one of four Democrats and Voinovich was one of 32 Republicans to support the filibuster.
While Voinovich's decision to oppose the bill had been expected, Brown's vote prompted intense disappointment among environmentalists, who saw his election to the Senate in 2006 as enhancing the opportunity for Congress to deal with global warming.
“The people who sent him to the Senate from Ohio wanted change,” said Dan Cronin, a spokesman for the Environmental Defense Action Fund. “He had an opportunity to provide that and show real leadership, and he fumbled the ball.”
Cronin quipped that he had not “seen a fumble this bad since Byner in 1988,” a reference to a fumble by Cleveland Browns running back Earnest Byner in the final moments of a crushing playoff loss to the Denver Broncos.
Jim Coleman, director of Ohio's Tomorrow, an organization that champions new laws to deal with global warming, said he was “deeply disappointed” in Brown's vote, adding that the senator “did not stand up for Ohio today.”
In a floor speech shortly after the vote, Brown said curbing global warming “is the moral question of our generation.”
But Brown complained that without revisions in the bill, the United States would lose manufacturing jobs to countries that do not have laws regulating the emission of carbon dioxide.
Without a “level playing field” for U.S. manufacturers, Brown said, “we might as well throw a going-away party” for the steel, concrete, glass, and chemical industries.
Co-sponsored by independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia, the bill called for a 70 percent reduction by 2050 in the emissions of carbon dioxide believed to cause global warming.
The bill would have imposed a cap-and-trade system on virtually all U.S. industries, including electrical utility plants, steel mills and oil refineries. A cap-and-trade system would offer a market solution to encourage industries to reduce greenhouse gases.
Each power plant would have an emission permit from the government for every ton of carbon dioxide poured into the atmosphere. Plants that stayed under those limits could sell their access permits to plants that had missed their targets.
Such a system would give companies a strong incentive to reduce their emissions so they could sell their permits.
Voinovich said the “passage of this irresponsible and hasty legislation would have resulted in the most massive bureaucratic intrusion into the lives of Americans since the creation of the Internal Revenue Service.”
jtorry@dispatch.com
We don’t need to lose business and jobs here in Ohio. Brown knows the workers and heavy manufacturers are pissed with all this “green” bullcrap.
We need to make sure that the jerks that tried to foist this crap on us lose their cushy jobs this November.
We are so screwed....
"Believed?" We are going to destroy America and it's economy because of something that MAY OR MAY NOT be true?
You can’t rely on the Columbus “Disgrace” for anything less than propoganda. Their subscription base is dropping so fast that they had reps in a local grocery store giving away papers to try to coax people to subscribe. Bird cage lining is it’s only function.
You folks in Ohio need to call/write etc. to let them know they have support. Us conservatives seem to come together when we’re trying to muster support for or against something. But after the fact when a dem and a rino does something right, we ought to let them know the support is out here. Just my take.
Environmentalists are insane, so anyone with flashes of sanity votes against them.
But with uncooperative Senators like this, how is our savior Obama going to hold down the waters of the oceans? He will need an especially good speech to do it.
Voinovich coming to his senses?
Hard to believe, but welcome.
This the FIRST TIME IN MY ADULT LIFE that I have been proud of Voinovich.
Well, less po’d, anyway.
While we are supposedly willing to kill our economy for the sake of the global warming cult, China and India have refused to make any concession that would stop their economic growth. In China air pollution is already at unbelievable levels yet the global warming cultists seem to have no problem with that.
The Repubs stood up? AND brought some Dims over as well? For America????
Maybe all is not lost quite yet.
Sheesh. He wins the first two legs of the triple crown and now he finally gets a clue on the "global warming" hoax on the climate? Amazing. Persoanlly, I think Brown should keep his mouth shut for now and concentrate on winning at Belmont tonight. If he wins that, he'll really have cred.
“Jim Coleman, director of Ohio’s Tomorrow, an organization that champions new laws to deal with global warming, said he was “deeply disappointed” in Brown’s vote, adding that the senator “did not stand up for Ohio today.” “
Brown did stand up for the people of Ohio. A lot of our labor Union members as well as a large number of Ohio consumers are against any type of CO2 cap and trade or tax regulation.
We need to tar and feather people like Jim Coleman and send them to California.
Will do, thanks for the reminder.
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