Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/08/2009 6:35:09 AM PDT by tobyhill
When it comes to climate change legislation, Senate Democratic leaders find themselves in a similar spot to where their House counterparts stood a few months ago: pledging passage of a comprehensive bill without a clear path on how to get there.
Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday insisted that he wanted to get a sweeping energy and global warming measure onto the Senate floor between mid-September and early October. But the Nevada Democrat and his lieutenants were less specific when it came to defining their strategy for crossing the all-important 60-vote threshold needed to defeat an expected Republican filibuster.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What happened to the Repubs’ assurances that this bill was DOA in the Senate?
When’s the vote?
As quick as Reid can get it to the floor without the bill actually being read.
When’s the vote?
Yea, particularly when Byrd and Kennedy are still horizontal elsewhere!
Despite the assurances, I found it very hard to believe that this travesty was DOA in the Senate.
There may be some red dog Democrat defectors. This horrible, suicidal bill is wildly unpopular out in the hustings. A vote in favor might be a career ender for many Senators.
We ought to do our best to make sure this message is hammered home to every vulnerable Senator of whatever party.
Not necessarily on this issue. You have a number of coal state Dems that are opposed to this bill. Remeber that in the campaign, Obama admitted that cap-and-trade would bankrupt the coal industry. So senators from W. VA,, PA, AR and others that have a large coal industry have come out against it.
I can count at least 5 Repubs who will vote for it: McCain, Graham, Snowe, Collins and Martinez.
Here are the Dems who will probably vote against it: Byrd, Rockefeller, Landrieu and Nelson.
Please add or subtract from the list.
(We are screwed)
There are enough sensible democrats that should keep this thing from passing in the Senate. Hopefully, these democrat senators will grow some balls and stand up against thier party.
“As quick as Reid can get it to the floor without the bill actually being read”
LOL!
Inhofe said this wouldn’t happen. Now look where we are.
Of course, the NY Slimes is a democrat propaganda mouthpiece, so this should be taken with that fact in mind...nevertheless, it is worrisome to know the socialists are close to passing this crap.
I'd ask them, but you'd have to find them first...
The Rats will haul Byrd in from the hospital in a wheelbarrow then tell him it’s for increasing coal production just to get his vote.
http://arkansasnews.com/2009/07/05/berry-ross-on-the-right-side-of-cap-and-trade/ http://www.americansforprosperity.org/031209-28-senators-oppose-cap-and-trade-reconciliation
Senate GOP is now irrelevant. It all comes down to whether or not the Dems want to commit electoral suicide. To summarize, are all 60 that dumb? Maybe yes...
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