Posted on 06/07/2008 5:52:18 PM PDT by vrwc54
As this week’s debate on climate change has unfolded, the American people and those watching us around the world had every reason to hope that we would act. Every credible scientist and expert believes action is necessary. This is critical and long overdue legislation that represents a good first step in addressing one of the most serious problems facing our generation.
Like many of my Senate colleagues, I believe the legislation could have been made even better. Had there been a substantive Senate debate about some of the concerns with this bill, I believe the outcome could have generated broad support. It certainly would have received my support.
Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the Senate has chosen to block progress, rather than work in a good faith manner to address this challenge. This is a failure of our politics and a failure of leadership – a President who for years denied the problem, and a Republican nominee, John McCain, who claims leadership on the issue but opposes this bipartisan bill.
We can’t afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, and the periods of drought. By 2050, famine could force more than 250 million from their homes. And if we do nothing, sea levels will rise high enough to swallow large portions of every coastal city and town.
This bipartisan legislation establishes an economy-wide cap on greenhouse gas emissions. It helps states, cities, and towns invest in technologies to reduce energy bills for homeowners, increase energy efficiency, construct green buildings, and expand public transit. It invests in green technology to help our automakers to retool and our fossil-fuel industries to become clean. The bill provides real financial relief to working families. Importantly, the bill restores our great nation’s international leadership role, while including provisions to ensure that all major emitting nations also take serious action to solve this global problem.
Let me be clear, this bill is not perfect. Emissions reductions must reflect the scientific consensus, which are reductions of at least 80 percent 2050. We must ensure that more middle-class families reap more of the financial benefits created by this bill. And we must direct greater resources to the regions of the country that will bear the brunt of this critical transition to a clean energy economy.
I believe that the American people are ready to lead the world on this issue. The time for distractions, divisions, and excuses is over. The time for new coalitions, informed and civil debate, and a sense of shared purpose is long overdue. As president, I am committed to ensuring that our children and our children’s children can point to this generation as the time when American found its way again.
You made my day!
“As president, I am committed...”
Oh man..I am gonna be seriously hissed off if I missed the election!
To bad they were not required to remain in their seats until the whole thing was read. And if they nodded off a Page would give them a "Dope Slap" to the back of the dead. I would have use a "Louisville Slugger" and shouted "WAKE UP IDIOT"!
TO ALL:
-have you signed the carbon belch pledge, yet?
http://www.carbonbelchday.com/109/pledge.asp?RID=&PID
Don’t forget, Thursday June 12th is Carbon Belch day!
That’s where I stopped also.
“Like many of my Senate colleagues, I believe the legislation could have been made even better.”
So why didn’t you fix it?
McCain believes in a whole lot of this bunk.
dead = head although they are all dead heads anyway!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/obama-celebrate.html
Enough with the grilling of the unresponsible. Look in the mirror.
He is part of this Country’s problem!
For those who don't know, Obama, Clinton and McCain, all believers in GloBull Warming, did not vote on the bill at all.
Then at least they will move on to some other idiot project and we will expose them all over again.
As long as we keep exposing their stupidity they lose/ we win, no matter who is in power.
Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change
Today, Director of the SSRC, John Casey has reaffirmed earlier research he led that independently discovered the sun’s changes are the result of a family of cycles that bring about climate shifts from cold climate to warm and back again.“We today confirm the recent announcement by NASA that there are historic and important changes taking place on the sun’s surface. This will have only one outcome - a new climate change is coming that will bring an extended period of deep cold to the planet. This is not however a unique event for the planet although it is critically important news to this and the next generations. It is but the normal sequence of alternating climate changes that has been going on for thousands of years. Further according to our research, this series of solar cycles are so predictable that they can be used to roughly forecast the next series of climate changes many decades in advance. I have verified the accuracy of these cycles’ behavior over the last 1,100 years relative to temperatures on Earth, to well over 90%.”
I caught that too.....he’s delusional.
Problem is, their bullhorn - MSM, public schools, universities, Hollywood, etc. - just happens to be louder than ours.
Not present. Just like everything else.
This is the writing of an idiot. If Obama wrote it, he’s an idiot. That John McCain may have written the same idiocy puts America firmly between a rock and a very hard place.
I know where McCain stands on the issue, but at least he opposed this turd. Something is coming in some shape or form concerning greenhouse gas emissions or global warming I believe in the near future (much to my chagrin).
However, we can’t go this far left. After these statements, I’d vote for almost anyone over this clown.
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