Posted on 06/27/2009 9:19:21 AM PDT by thecodont
(06-27) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke time and again of preserving "God's beautiful creation" as she mustered all the skills she learned, at her father's knee in Baltimore and in San Francisco's liberal salons, to muscle sweeping climate change legislation to narrow passage Friday.
Pushing for the vote while uncertain she would win it was the highest-stakes decision of the San Francisco Democrat's career. President Obama, joined by former Vice President and greenhouse guru Al Gore, worked the phones to woo the backing of reluctant Democrats from coal states, farm states, manufacturing states and poor states.
Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in from the hallway off the speaker's balcony, thanking "dear Nancy" for overseeing what Merkel called a sea change in U.S. policy on climate change.
For all its muddy compromises, and those to come in the more conservative Senate, the climate legislation would begin to tilt the equation of energy policy in the United States, capping greenhouse gas emissions for the first time, boosting production of renewable electricity, investing in clean-energy technology and attempting to loosen the vise grip that foreign oil producers hold on the nation's economic and foreign policy.
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"No guarantee"
"Nor is there any guarantee the legislation will clear the Senate, where failure would leave vulnerable House Democrats hanging with nothing to show for a risky vote. Such a course would parallel the infamous BTU energy tax proposed by President Bill Clinton nearly two decades ago. That tax cleared the House by a single vote cast by a hapless Pennsylvania first-term Democrat who promptly lost her seat after the Senate buried the bill.
"Senate passage will be in the hands of California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, an ardent proponent of cap-and-trade limits on greenhouse gases who often clashes with conservatives. Boxer plans action in her Environment and Public Works Committee by the end of July and believes she laid a path through the minefield of regional interests in a trial run on a similar bill last year that secured 54 votes, before Democrats added to their Senate majority in November's election."
No mention of Sen. Feinstein's position on the bill.
My congressman, Dave Reichert (WA 8th Congressional), is seriously at risk now for having voted for this. It is highly likely my next congresscritter will be a Democrat.
attempting to loosen the vise grip that foreign oil producers hold on the nation’s economic and foreign policy.
Gee, they could do the same thing by drilling here and drilling NOW.
Guess that’s too simple for them.
This legislation is not about the environment.
It is about control and power to tell others how to live and it is about money... lots of money, money made out of thin air and traded like such as well.
The Enema Within has revealed itself.. again.
A majority of the nation’s populace blindly follows the Piper off the cliff, singing Kumbaya all the way... not even caring to look at the bill.
Oh please she doesn’t care about “God’s Creation.” Global Warming itself is anti-God and an insult because it suggests God’s creations are flawed and cause the earth’s destruction.
A - Friend or enema???
Reminds me of that SNL skit about "colon blow" breakfast cerial!!!
To which deity are the mullahs of climate change referring?
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