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Election energizes climate bill talks (Graham meets with Rahm Emanuel)
The Boston Globe ^ | 2010-01-24

Posted on 01/23/2010 11:37:36 PM PST by rabscuttle385

Kerry, bipartisan bloc discuss compromise.

BY MICHAEL KRANISH

WASHINGTON — Seeking to resuscitate stalled global warming legislation in Washington’s suddenly changed political climate, a bipartisan group of senators including John Kerry of Massachusetts has been conducting private talks this week with the White House and a key business group over an array of concessions sought by Republicans.

The election of Scott Brown as Kerry’s colleague has added urgency to the negotiations for a compromise, which would include the Democrats’ goal of limiting carbon emissions while encouraging development of nuclear power, subsidizing coal mining, and drilling for off-shore oil.

Trying to win Brown’s support for a deal is part of the effort. As a Massachusetts state senator, he supported a regional program to cap emissions. But during his US Senate campaign he said the regional program did not work and expressed doubts about the science of global warming. As a result, he opposed the Democrats’ national emissions-cutting program that was championed by Kerry last year.

A Brown spokesman said yesterday the Senate’s newest Republican, who has not been sworn in, would not comment on a possible compromise.

"Brown’s focus right now is on getting settled into his new job as a US senator. There will be plenty of time to talk about issues down the line," Eric Fehrnstrom, a Brown adviser, wrote in an e-mail.

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Kerry accompanied Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, and Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, to a White House meeting on Wednesday with presidential chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to discuss shaping a bipartisan bill.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
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To: Southack

I agree with you on that-pick up a hoop and make THEM jump thru it.


41 posted on 01/24/2010 4:39:17 AM PST by homegroan ((keeping track of this crap is a full-time job...and I just punched in))
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To: rabscuttle385

Graham is part of the problem. DeMint is part of the solution. How could the state that brings us the great Jim DeMint also have brought us this squishy RINO?


42 posted on 01/24/2010 4:42:27 AM PST by meyer (Government health care = national strike.)
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To: Cobra64
McCain and Graham

How many times does this duo get to audition their tin ears? Yo time is up boys!

43 posted on 01/24/2010 4:47:05 AM PST by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: napscoordinator

With an election like that, the Wiki must have a new meaning for “intelligent”


44 posted on 01/24/2010 4:52:47 AM PST by Michigan Bowhunter (Democrat socialist liberal scumbags.....how did we let this happen!)
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To: Mygirlsmom
Figure out? They perpetrated the whole scam in order to kill private enterprise, steal our money, and assume total control over our lives.

Bingo! We have a Winner! You're 100% Correct. It was a trap to destroy US from the Beginning. This is the Left's attempt to shape-shift and appear to be something they are not.

45 posted on 01/24/2010 4:57:24 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I heard on the radio last night that major “climate experts” now predict a 30 year cooling cycle. I guess “Lindsay the Poofter” missed that broadcast.


46 posted on 01/24/2010 4:59:42 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: Cobra64

Rebel Without A Clue....


47 posted on 01/24/2010 5:00:55 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Oh, oh. Do these RINO’s ever learn. I hope the AZ and SC opposition is taking note.


48 posted on 01/24/2010 5:00:56 AM PST by AdaGray (uw)
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To: Chgogal

Bookmark!


49 posted on 01/24/2010 5:12:17 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: rabscuttle385
When the Dems have total power over us they act like dictators, then, as soon as we get some power, they talk "compromise" and they and their media buddies tell everyone how they believe in compromise.

Its like the Dems are about to put a bullet in our heads, then we grab the gun and turn it on them, then they start yelling "We can make a deal!" [Sort of like when Saddam Hussein poked his head out of the hole and said he wanted to "negotiate" - anybody have that photo?]

50 posted on 01/24/2010 5:45:26 AM PST by LZ_Bayonet (There's Always Something.............And there's always something worse!)
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To: LZ_Bayonet

Globull warming is a scam. RINOs are a scam.


51 posted on 01/24/2010 5:54:41 AM PST by hal ogen
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To: Southack; rabscuttle385
"Won't happen"

We can predict what will happen.

They will implement some carbon reduction scheme on electrical generation.
Pass an energy bill such as S 774
Throw in some loan guarantees for nukes.

There are plenty of clues.

Exxon joined TransCanada on the Alaska pipeline as S 774 was in committee, has been investing in LNG boats, and more recently bought XTO

52 posted on 01/24/2010 7:39:24 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: rabscuttle385
Graham missed his fitting for an orange jumpsuit. He needs to be led away in chains.

This is one of the few cases where a public hanging would be appropriate. Rats are merely craven. This guy has raised cravenness to obduracy.

53 posted on 01/24/2010 7:40:32 AM PST by Carry_Okie (They were the Slave Party then; they are the Slave Party now.)
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To: rabscuttle385

They cannot get 60 votes for Crap and Tax.


54 posted on 01/24/2010 8:53:18 AM PST by Mariner
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To: Southack

“0bama is flailing about”

Right. That continues unabated since 1/21/09.


55 posted on 01/24/2010 9:25:52 AM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Graham should be arrested for his participation in the “global warming” hoax and scam. If we are going to throw Madoff in prison, we should throw Graham in prison too.


56 posted on 01/24/2010 9:57:38 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (J.D. Hayworth for Senate!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Graham is a “useful idiot” for the Dems. Instead of standing strong against all of these Dem socialist issues and continuing to ride the anti-Dem wave all the way to the Nov. 2010 mid-terms, Graham and McCain and some others will find a way to toss away the advantage through “bi-partisanship” (i.e. surrender). The Dems are reeling and the GOP needs to keep up the pressure. Now is not the time to blur the lines between the parties. The voters of Massachusetts showed what can happen when they are given a clear choice.


57 posted on 01/24/2010 10:15:18 AM PST by littleharbour
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To: rabscuttle385
a bipartisan group of senators including John Kerry of Massachusetts has been conducting private talks this week with the White House and a key business group over an array of concessions sought by Republicans.

In others words, both parties want to make money for their biggest contributors, while continuing to screw the American public.

They've learned nothing from the amnesty and health care debacles, or from the tea parties and the election of Scott Brown.

58 posted on 01/24/2010 10:21:15 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Pray for devine intervention, again.


59 posted on 01/24/2010 10:38:42 AM PST by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: napscoordinator

Maybe by then FReeper Katherene Jenrette will be a popular congresswoman and take him out!


60 posted on 01/24/2010 10:41:58 AM PST by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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