Inhofe: Senate Will Not Pass Cap-and-Trade

businessandmedia.org ^ | June 3, 2009 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

Not too long ago, global warming activism in the U.S. Capitol made some sort of carbon cap-and-trade legislation seem like a near certainty. But the tide may be turning.

According to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking Republican of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, a key committee needed for passage of a cap-and-trade bill, the trend indicates it can’t pass, at least in the U.S. Senate. He explained that the House, under the leadership of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, will pass anything, but it takes both houses of Congress for it to become law.

“I want to tell you what’s going to happen from this point forward in my opinion,” Inhofe said at the Heartland Institute’s Third International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, D.C. on June 2. “First of all, the House will pass anything. Nancy Pelosi has the votes to pass anything. Don’t be distressed when you see the House passes some kind of cap-and-trade bill. And you know it could be worse [than the proposed bill] and she could still pass it, so it’ll pass there.”

..more (w/video)..

[Dick Bachert]

Al proves that the apple (try saying that last word with two fingers in your mouth and you'll be much closer to the word I wanted to use but can't say here) doesn't fall too far from the tree.

Americans have memories shorter than Bill Clinton's (fill in your favorite male body part here) so a little review of history is in order (not that anyone will remember any of this when Al launches his dark horse shot at the White House).

Al's old man was a bud to Armand Hammer who was the ONLY American (and I use that title very loosely here) allowed to fly his private jet into and out of the USSR under Stalin and his successors without either US or USSR diplomatic clearance. Hammer cranked up and ran many businesses for old Uncle Joe, starting with a pencil factory as they had to keep records of those 60 million kulaks Joe starved to death. So your application of the term "communist" is an apt one.

Old Armand gave Al, Sr. TONS of campaign dough and Al, Sr. carried Armand's water on Capitol Hill for years.

And here's a REAL piece of irony: Hammer owned a significant stake in Occidental Petroleum which was responsible for the LOVE CANAL toxic waste mess in New York. Gotta wonder how much of born-again envirowhacko Al, Jr's current assets flowed from the profits Hammer and Occidental generated from burying those thousands of barrels of sickening toxic sludge at Love Canal.

Gee, could that be why Al is on his current crusade? Guilt? A heartfeld desire to purge the sins of his old man??

NYAAHHHHHHHHHH...!!!!

"The urge to save humanity is often a false front for the URGE TO RULE." H.L.Mencken (who musta known Algore)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qeWnS7Eig

[henkster]

I take Inhofe at his word that he would personally try to kill this monstrosity. My problem is with the Senate as an institution. As a collective whole you could scour the earth and not find a group of 100 persons with less collective backbone than the United States Senate. They will not reject, instead they will try to work out some sort of “compromise.” Inhofe is correct that Pelosi’s Congress could pass anything. But the Senate will approve same.

[Trust but Verify]

Very reassuring.

[Walrus]

“Cap-and-trade” must be stopped. There is absolutely NO reason for it, other than to enrich Al Gore and the shady movers and shakers who bought into his scheme.

Call or e-mail your senator today to voice your adamant opposition to cap-and-trade or any other similar legislation based on the complete fabrication of “global warming”.

[chris_bdba]

I hope your right Sen. Inhofe. America can not afford cap and trade nor government provided healthcare.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[FourPeas]

Did you read the article??? Inhofe talks about the history of cap and trade votes and the growing opposition to it.

[FourPeas]

The Oklahoma senator credited the Founding Fathers, noting that the senate rules put in place are a difficult obstacle for the global warming activists in the federal government to overcome.

“It will pass in the House, in the Senate it will not pass,” Inhofe continued. “And her latest vote and she won’t admit this, but it’s 34 votes and it takes 60 votes in the Senate. Maybe the people who wrote our constitution knew what they were talking about.”

It's good to be an Oklahoman.

[spiderfern]

I heard Imholfe say this on Jerry Doyle’s show 2 weeks ago. I hope it’s not OLD news??

[griswold3]

I just wrote Sherrod Brown asking how much cap and trade was going to cost me because I needed to know if I should closed up shop. I’m in the transportation business and know it’s going to be high....but how high?

[what's up]

One of the reasons the stock market has been climbing lately IMO.

Don't bash the GOP Congress too much. Some good stuff is happening.

[pepsionice]

Actually...if you break up this carbon game by states, and start comparing states to European countries...especially by per capita rate....then thirty states are doing individually as good as Germany, Italy or Spain (note: Alabama and Mississippi easily compare). But then we come to New York, California and Vermont....who are four times much worse off on this entire carbon game. Its the low numbers of the bottom thirty, that help to even out the top twenty. And I’ll note this...using Green statistics...of the top ten carbon issued states....nine are blue states.

The trick in every single argument that any environmentalist or media person portrays....is to ask for a break-up of the federal system, and punish the states with issues. Your quote to use? The state of Alabama has proudly stayed in the range of Germany for carbon issues....for over 200 years...and we don’t need cap and trade to fix anything in our state.

[henkster]

I’m not questioning individual Senators and their current opinions. I think the dynamic changes once Pelosi’s Congress passes a bill. Then the Senate comes under media pressure to pass the house bill. A few individual Senators get cover by making cosmetic changes, then the entire body caves and passes it. Not unanimously, but enough to override the filibuster.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Democrats + Olympia Snowe:

Oh, yeah???

DOOMAGE!

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[County Agent Hank Kimball]

People of Oklahoma, you may have the last two patriots in the entire Congress in Inhofe and Coburn.

God bless both of them....and the great state of Oklahoma!

Hank

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

is this still true?