Climate bill needed to 'save our planet,' says Obama [McCain, Graham, Martinez, Snowe/Collins]

The New York Times ^ | 2009-02-25 | Darren Samuelson

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President Obama lent his voice last night to the push for a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions, using his first speech to a joint session of Congress to lobby for controversial legislation sure to spark a heated debate during tight economic times.

Obama campaigned for president last year with climate change and energy issues atop his agenda. And he returned to those themes yesterday, saying that a cap-and-trade bill would help spark economic recovery by giving U.S. companies greater incentive to start producing more wind turbines, solar panels, biofuels and battery-powered automobiles.

"To truly transform our economy, to protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy," Obama said in his address to Congress. "So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America. That's what we need."

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From the article:

"None of this will come without cost, nor will it be easy," the president said. "But this is America. We don't do what's easy. We do what's necessary to move this country forward."

Nearly all House and Senate Democrats gave Obama a standing ovation for his climate change comments, with Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) even turning behind him to give a high five to Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). A small group of moderate Senate Republicans also rose at Obama's mention of cap-and-trade legislation, including Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Mel Martinez of Florida, and John McCain of Arizona.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said earlier this week that he wants to hold a floor debate on a bipartisan climate bill by the end of the summer, specifically singling out McCain as a Republican who he is looking to for support.

McQueeg and his merry band of RINOs strike again!

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[Doogle]

pork

[edcoil]

“Climate bill needed to ‘save our planet,’ says Obama [McCain, Graham, Martinez, Snowe/Collins]”

So a law against China against opening a coal plant a week or is hillary selling bonds there based on a promise the we will kill more manufacturing jobs to shift there?

[pissant]

Worthless leftwing pansies.

[TADSLOS]

[xcamel]

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[Semper Mark]

“We do what's necessary to move this country forward.”

We're fixin’ to...do what's necessary.

Put one of your big ears to the floor and you'll hear the
vibration of the storm that's brewing in this country.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Lost in the Ozone again.

[PMAS]

He forgot to mention that last week, researchers at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center admitted that from early January to the middle of this month, “sensor drift” in the satellite monitors used to measure sea ice caused them to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 193,000 square miles. That’s a significant area roughly the size of California.

February 18, 2009 - http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2009/021809.html

[dforest]

I tuned in to a local talk show here in Indy today. I tuned in late, but I swear I heard a fellow, maybe Chris Horner, say that a climate change tax has been slipped into the the 410 billion latest spending bill. It will gut US taxpayers to the tune of 300 billion(did I hear him say per year?) I am not sure. He said it was slipped in because this spending bill cannot be filibustered.

I came in late so I don’t know all the details. This is the first I have heard of this.

OMG

[P-Marlowe]

Bump

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McCain said that he wants to help Barack Obama (D) "fix" health care. And, now he is on the Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, working with Ted Kennedy (D) to advance the Socialist agenda of universal Government health care.

McCain is working with Carl Levin (D) to "fix" defense procurement.

McCain is sponsoring bills along with Russ Feingold (D) to amend the 17th Amendment.

McCain offered up an "alternative" Porkulus bill that would have cost only half as much. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig. Of course, he succeeded at rallying fellow RINOs and drawing attention away from the "American Option" proposed by Jim DeMint (R). And let's not even get into the similarities between McCain's and Obama's mortgage initiatives that mountainbunny picked up on earlier.

Both McCain and Graham openly support nationalization of privately-held American banks.

And now McCain is openly supporting Obama's climate change goals, including cap-and-trade and "alternative energy." Beyond that, amnesty for illegals is a foregone conclusion.

McCain's "little jerk" Lindsey Graham (RINO) has declared that he wants to help Obama "fix" not just Social Security, but health care and "entitlements generally." And, referring to Obama's potential opponents, Graham said this at Monday's "fiscal responsibility" summit: "I will do everything I can to make sure that demagoguery does not succeed."

First you were "bigots"; now you are "demagogues." Either way, conservatives are in the way of the machinations of surrender and appeasement being assembled by McCain and the RINOs, including his acolytes Graham and others.

McCain and the RINOs have done as much to redefine conservatism in terms of Big Government and the Socialist agenda as Bush, Cheney, and Paulson; and as a result, McCain and the RINOs must be expelled from the Republican Party and the United States Congress for conservatism to survive the dark days of Obama.

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[FiddlePig]

This is the vehicle “Plantation Liberals” (http://redneckoblogger.blogspot.com/)... are using as they are determined to build “two Americas” (thanx John Edwards)... one of priviledge, based on political class (media included) and the rest of us (the great “unwashed”).

As (if?) this “caste” (no other word will do) system becomes established, most of us will live at the whim of our RULERS (no longer “Public” Servants)! A wretched, rationed subsistance it will be! Thanx Obama/Dem voters!

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McQueeg strikes again.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !
Photoshop from E.I.B.:

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Oratam]

I would think a world-wide economic slow down would have an immediate effect on carbon output. Why are they pushing this now? I hate these people. Truly. Hate is not too strong a word.

[Kakaze]

a climate change tax has been slipped into the the 410 billion latest spending bill. It will gut US taxpayers to the tune of 300 billion(did I hear him say per year?) I am not sure. He said it was slipped in because this spending bill cannot be filibustered.

Probably the carbon cap and trade tax.

It will pass, heck Lugar was the first to register one of his farms on the Chicago Carbon Exchange.

I forget how many acres of Black Walnut trees, supposedly the best carbon scrubbers.....how much you bet Lugar used one of his own farm bills to pay for those trees?

It's been in the works for a while, they voted to create a new trading market and then used our money ( tax payer), to fund the project.

At one point it was actually on Lugars web site, I copied it before they pulled it.

I'm in the process of moving so I don't have it on the lap top but its on the home p.c., I'll repost it when it gets here.

The actual article is though, in my posting history.

[bereanway]

And he returned to those themes yesterday, saying that a cap-and-trade bill would help spark economic recovery by giving U.S. companies greater incentive to start producing more wind turbines, solar panels, biofuels and battery-powered automobiles.”

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0bama is confusing cost and benefit. With a technically bankrupt banking and financial system, a manufacturing base that has to a great degree been outsourced with what is left fighting for its very survival we don’t need the American economy saddled with even more non-productive costs, red-tape and make work along with even greater debt loads.

This guy has a perfect blueprint for destroying the American economic engine and instituting some form of corporatism if not outright socialism. 2010 can’t get here quickly enough.

[dforest]

Horner was saying they are calling it Cap and Trade, but it isn’t really that.

I came in late to the show.....but this is a nightmare that is being slipped in behind our backs.

Not too many even realize what is awaiting them in the near future.

[Our man in washington]

Let’s say global warming is a serious threat. If they really want to put less carbon in the atmosphere, why not just do a simple carbon tax with an agreement that marginal and capital gains rate would be cut to the point that the effect was neutral? It would be the most economic way to achieve the goal.

But cap-and-trade allows for politicians to play favorites and also allows for the possibility of confusing people about the true cost. When utility prices go up, politicians can blame the businesses.