Bipartisanship Is Crucial for Producing a Meaningful, Job-Creating Climate Change Bill

Roll Call ^ | Nov. 02, 2009 | Phil Angelides

[grey_whiskers]

Earlier this month, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stirred up a tempest when they announced that they could overcome their political differences and agree on the critical need for a national policy that addresses the threat of climate change and moves the United States toward energy independence. Since the publication of their opinion piece, “Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation)” in the New York Times, pundits and policy experts alike have declared the Senators’ announcement a “game-changer” and possible tipping point that could lead to the passage of a bipartisan climate change bill — maybe even before the end of this year.

[grey_whiskers]

Note that Lindsay Grahamnesty continues his RINO ways.

*BARF*

Cheers!

[SoDak]

Gridlock is really the only hope we have of mitigating the damage these fools can do.

[rabscuttle385]

Grahamnesty alert.

[darkangel82]

This guy lost to Arnold by 17 points. Fail.

[Rastus]

Gridlock is the American Way. “Bipartisanship” means “stand aside and give the Democrats everything they want.” The RINO attempt to deprive the voters of a stark choice between left and right is UnAmerican.

[Taxbilly]

when they announced that they could overcome their political differences

Differences what differences?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

There isn’t one damned thing wrong with the climate!

[Brad from Tennessee]

WIKIPEDIA:

As (California)Treasurer, Angelides was an ex-officio member of the boards of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), which are the nation’s first and third largest public pension funds. He had. . . advocated for investment in socially and environmentally conscious businesses. . .His Green Wave Initiative invested $950,000,000 into environmental businesses and technologies. . .and his Double Bottom Line Initiative invested 14 billion dollars into inner-city and underserved communities. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Angelides#California_State_Treasurer

[sourcery]

The debate actually is over…and the idea that human emissions of carbon dioxide will cause any significant degree of global warming has been categorically refuted and falsified. The empirically-measured change in the amount of energy radiating away from the Earth as a function of changes in sea surface temperature totally falsifies the IPCC climate models--and more importantly, completely falsifies the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis—total, categorical falsification, not simply invalidation of the alleged "proof" based on computer climate models:

• On the determination of climate feedbacks from ERBE data (peer-reviewed scientific paper);
• RESPONSE TO US SECRETARY OF ENERGY ON CLIMATE STATEMENT (explanation for non-scientists)
• Basic Greenhouse Equations "Totally Wrong"
• IPCC'S FATAL ERRORS
• Climate Change: Statement of Dr. William Happer before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
• The Skeptics Handbook

[cranked]

The libtards are not interested in bipartisanship other than as rhetoric. "Bipartisanship" to them is getting one lone RINO to vote on any of their garbage. That is all the "bipartisanship" they are truly interested in, period. Other than that, its shove-it-down-our-throats mode.

[karnage]

Since there is no such thing as “man-made global climate change,” any bill to address it is categorically bilge.

[karnage]

There is no such thing as “bipartisanship” any more than there is any such thing as “man-made global climate change.”

[LegendHasIt]

Hey you morons: You wanna create jobs?

Then your Climate Change Bill should contain just -22- words:

“We recognize that ‘climate change’ is just an Al Gore scam, and are not going to screw anyone over because of it.”

[Matchett-PI]

July 2, 2009
Senate May Pass U.S. Climate Bill, Reject Treaty, Kerry Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=aMs9V_EUxE0Y
By Jim Efstathiou Jr. and Daniel Whitten

....”Passing domestic climate-change legislation remains the most crucial step, Purvis said.

Senate ratification of a treaty would require 67 votes, compared with 60 for legislation. ...”

Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top Republican on Boxer’s committee, has vowed to stop the bill, calling it “the largest tax increase in American history” and saying the “razor-thin vote in the House spells doom in the Senate.” ...

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October 24, 2009
Senate Climate Measure Would Give Away Most Pollution Permits
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=arfAYWoEhlYk
By Simon Lomax and Daniel Whitten

..Senator James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who has called human-induced global warming a “hoax,” threatened procedural moves to block the bill from gaining a committee vote. ...

..Inhofe told reporters before the bill was released yesterday [Friday, Oct. 23, 2009] that an insufficient EPA analysis may lead Republicans to skip the committee debate of the bill altogether, denying the Democrats the quorum they would need to send the measure to the Senate floor for consideration. ..

[AmericanArchConservative]

Angelides is one of the main ‘architects’ of the “tides” foundation, also part of the tsunami project. A definite socialist puke!

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[RoadTest]

Not even bipartisanship can change what the sun is doing.

[upchuck]

I'm about to the point where I'll vote for ANYBODY except Pandsey in 2014. Even a RAT would be better than this queer POS.

Uber RINO Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."

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[patriot preacher]

I’m about to the point where I’ll vote for ANYBODY except Pandsey in 2014. Even a RAT would be better...
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Last fall, I voted for the Democrat running against Grahamnesty, because he was more CONSERVATIVE. Hard to believe, and HARDLY ideal — but I KNEW what Grahamnesty was going to do. And I’ve been RIGHT — 100% RIGHT.
I wish South Carolinians memories were longer than a few weeks. Otherwise, we’ll put his sorry butt right back in office in 2014 (that is, if we are still a “free” nation by then).

[bossmechanic]

A vote for any politician from any party that pays lip service to any variation of man-made climate change is simply enabling the terminally stupid.
I don’t mind people having different opinions on topics - perhaps based on their personal life experiences BUT
to ignore scientific evidence and bow to the gorites is an intellectual sin.