Don't celebrate too soon. Remember Stupak?
Posted on 04/24/2010 6:25:37 PM PDT by neverdem
The effort to enact climate and energy legislation this year suffered a critical blow Saturday when Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), the key Republican proponent of the bill, said he was unwilling to move ahead because of Democrats' push for immigration reform.
The move forced the other two authors of the bill, Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), to cancel a news conference planned for Monday that would have unveiled the climate and energy plan they negotiated with Graham, the only Republican who had been participating in the discussions.
In an interview Saturday, Graham said he did not see how the Senate could pass any climate and energy bill this year if Senate Democratic leaders and President Obama pushed for immigration reform, as they suggested they would last week.
"The political environment that we needed to have a chance [to pass the bill] has been completely destroyed" by the push for immigration, Graham said...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
BS BS BS
This seems to me to be a rather thin excuse for backpedaling on an unpopular proposal.
Don't celebrate too soon. Remember Stupak?
Maybe nothing now. He used to be fairly conservative, IIRC, even though I'm not from SC, then he became uber RINO in the Senate.
Intolerance of the American Left over 'Outing of Gay Republican'
If he was being blackmailed into being a RINO, then all bets are off.
Check comment# 64.
You nailed it. Bump.
Quite the opposite. You gotta have nads to stab someone in the back. You may not need a spine, but you do need nads.
“Lindsay doesn’t want immigration “reform” to rear its ugly head this year because McLame is running for re-election. Once McLame is safely back in for another term, Lindsay will be back to support this turd AND amnesty.”
You hit that nail squarely on it’s head. Perfect. This is the ONLY reason he bailed and he & McInsane will be back on it once old Johnny is re elected.
He knows the outrage that would follow if he got Crap and Tax passed and peoples electric rates rise so he used immigration as an excuse to take the bail.
“Taking bets:
Month, day, year, Lindsey Graham announces that he DOES support climate legislation.”
The day after McLame is re elected. Haven’t you been reading? :)
Yes...I’ve been hearing William Gheen on the radio, and that could be part of it.
Uber RINO Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."
From left: RAT, RINO, RAT
Want on or off this ping list?
Just FReepmail me.
You got what you so justly deserved Lindsey, a knife in the back.
2014 is gonna be a blast!
Maybe he got the negatives?
Okay I’m asking it again...
What’s up with this guy? Did McCain break up with him?
Spot.
On.
So what’s really going on with Lindsey Gramnesty?
Lindsey just doesn’t want to hurt his RINO buddy McCain’s chances of winning. Too late. Throw the RINOS out in the primaries and bury the Rats in NOvember.
“Drama queen, needy of attention, self-aggrandizing. There is something wrong with him beyond just the usual RHINO accusation.”
I just came across this....wondering if it has anything to do with it?
Intolerance of the American Left over ‘outing of gay Republican’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/7628367/Intolerance-of-the-American-Left-over-outing-of-gay-Republican.html
I take it Maverick told Lindsey he was endangering his chances in the primary?
This challenge by J.D. is yielding so many good results. LOL
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