U.S. carbon-capping climate bill dies in Senate

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[Sub-Driver]

U.S. carbon-capping climate bill dies in Senate

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U.S. legislation that would have set up a cap-and-trade system to limit climate-warming carbon emissions died on Friday after a procedural vote in the Senate.

The bill aimed to cut total U.S. global warming emissions by 66 percent by 2050. Opponents said it would cost U.S. jobs and raise fuel prices in an already pinched American economy.

[television is just wrong]

YES!

[Tarpon]

Where is the happy dancers?

[thoolou]

Excellent!!!

[shove_it]

R.I.P.

[farlander]

Well I guess there’s still hope... tho I almost wish they’d pass it - after 6 months when gas prices went up another $2 a gallon and people were ready to skewer the democrats for it, we’d be then done with it all.

But better it not even come close.

[yldstrk]

Tippee!

[yldstrk]

I mean Yippee!

[kabar]

The bill had no chance to begin with. It was just political posturing before the November elections. The Dems decided not to pursue it any further now because it was becoming a political liability and would have forced some of the Dems to go on the record on positions they would like to keep hidden until after the general elections.

[Abathar]

We shouldn't celebrate this victory, the simple fact that such an asinine idea HAD to be voted down is indicative of far larger problems in Washington than whether or not this timebomb passes or not.

[McKayopectate]

YYYAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Thank God!

Incidentally, this vote also shows us the importance that can be attached to simply showing up.

[Savage Beast]

What would happen if Obama were President, a Democrat majority in the House of Representatives, and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate???

“The true criticism of Neville Chamberlain is that he could not really imagine a man like Hitler or a party like the Nazis.”
Robert Conquest
Reflections of a Ravaged Century
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, p. 12.

To paraphrase:

The true criticism of those who refuse to support McCain is that they cannot really imagine the Radical Left or a party like the 21st century Democrats.

Whatever you do:

VOTE REPUBLICAN!
It's our only hope!

And note tagline.

[Dead Corpse]

Good.

Now someone smack Norm Coleman upside the head and tell him to stop supporting liberal causes.

Someone let McCain know that this stuff doesn't go over well too...

[RexBeach]

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

Wait’ll next year. Ugh.

[Politicalmom]

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[Brilliant]

The Dems have been demogoguing this since Bush Sr. was President, and now they have their chance to pass it, but instead let it die.

[yldstrk]

Democrat thinking is divorced from logic.

[pierrem15]

God looks out for drunks, children and the Unites States of America.

[vietvet67]

Even Bernie Sanders said yesterday that this bill wouldn’t fly.