Election energizes climate bill talks (Graham meets with Rahm Emanuel)

The Boston Globe ^ | 2010-01-24

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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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There needs to be a rally to get this little sissy out of office.

AFAIK, the only way to get the sissy out of office if if he resigned, and that ain't gonna happen.

South Carolina does not have a recall mechanism.

However, Grahamensty has been censured by some Republican groups in SC.

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

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