Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/08/2009 8:09:47 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
With the addition of Al Franken to the U.S. Senate, Democrats believed that now have a 60 vote, filibuster-proof majority. But on the issue of "Cap and Trade," at least one Democrat is not supporting the legislation in its current form - Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia . . . . MORE
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Sen. Byrd has become wise in his dodder-age.
Say what you want about Byrd but he has always stuck up for the coal industry and knows what this bill would do to his home state.
He’d sooner be carried out of the Senate in a pine box than vote for this stinkin’ POS bill.
He was also looking into the Czars. Wonder if that has been dropped?
West-By-God-Virginia comes through again. I wound bet Rockefeller is also on board with the coal lobby. Yippy Kai-Yea!
I was praying literally for this, which is a better use of time than writing or calling my two speedbumps in the US Senate. Cap and trade is a killer for WV coal.
Still, I was betting that he is so feeble that his staff was probably keeping him under wraps and was filling in the dots for him.
Good for Senator Byrd! I’d love to see him join a filibuster.
CAP AND TRADE VOTE IN SENATE TOMORROW. I NEED BILL #
This is just like Helen Thomas last week.
They must be getting senile!
In any case, perhaps these 2 are having their broken-clock moments.
I hear WV gets 100% of its electricity from coal.
“better use of time than writing or calling my two speedbumps in the US Senate”
You go that right!
Especially the old speedbump - which she really could be, being that she’s a “Butterball”.
Maybe he’s just a racist.
Hope Rockefeller will get on board with this, as well.
It’s bad for the Mountaineer State.
“Especially the old speedbump - which she really could be, being that she’s a “Butterball”.”
That, my good FRiend, is a contemptuous insult to butterballs!!
Don’t worry, I’m sure the Dims can count on McLame’s vote.
paging our 2 favorite Senators from ME: Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe /sarc
It is S. 2191.
Contact your Senator’s.
Should be good enough for a bill-killing filibuster......
Does he want to be the Sinator that killed the Coal Industry in VA? They will start taking his name off Rest Areas.
Pray for America
Won’t Snowe offset him?
Target North Dakota’s Democrat Senators (Dorgan, Conrad) who come from a big COAL PRODUCING STATE!
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