Left Pushback on Waxman-Markey: Is It Time to Start Over?

WUWT ^ | June 23, 2009 | Robert Bradley

[Need4Truth]

The battle cry of Joseph Romm at Climate Progress (Center for American Progress) earlier this year was “Obama Can Get a Better Climate Bill in 2010: Here’s How.” But now Romm is in panic mode, trying to convince the rebelling Environmental Left that the out-of-control Waxman-Markey climate change bill (now 1,090 1,201 pages) is the last best hope to save civilization. As Romm stated in a post yesterday:

[Need4Truth]

The cap and trade tax bill is a monster 1,200 page bill that comes up for a vote in the House on Friday. Even some on the left don't like it.

Who wants the people that produced this monstrosity controlling their health care?

[Need4Truth]

sorry, i put the wrong source, it should be Master Resource.

[Signalman]

I wonder which scenario would be more damaging to Obama:

Scenario 1: This monstrous bill, along with National Healthcare passes, the economy is wrecked beyond repair, and Obama loses in 2012, as a result or

Scenario 2: This bill, along with National Healthcare, is defeated or never goes forward, and Obama loses in 2012 because he is seen as weak, ineffective, and as someone who can’t get anything he wants passed.

[Nateman]

..which scenario would be more damaging to Obama..

I know the worst option for America: It passes!

[dr_lew]

The inevitable politicization of climate policy–call it government failure–should lead well-meaning, open-minded environmentalists to check their premises and consider a nonpolitical approach to what they see as market failure. After all, the imperfect government must be weighted against the imperfect market. Perhaps a revolt against political capitalism, or what in this area is called the climate-industrial complex, will bring about the end of not only Waxman-Markey but the futile crusade to “stabilize climate.”

What was that middle part again?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !