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Obama to pledge sweeping climate change legislation
Washington Post ^ | June 2, 2010 | By Michael D. Shear

Posted on 06/02/2010 10:44:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

PITTSBURGH -- President Obama on Wednesday will promise to find the votes for comprehensive climate change legislation in the "coming months," saying the case for putting a price on the nation's addiction to carbon has been made clear by the environmental catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.

In excerpts of a speech at Carnegie Mellon University released by the White House, the president plans to repeat his intentions to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks on big oil companies, tap natural gas reserves as an alternative to oil, and increase reliance on nuclear power.

The president will acknowledge that he does not yet have enough support in Congress for his clean-energy vision. But in the wake of the oil spill, Obama promises to personally press for passage this year of a bipartisan framework pending in the Senate.

"I will make the case for a clean-energy future wherever I can, and I will work with anyone from either party to get this done. But we will get this done," he says in the excerpts. "The next generation will not be held hostage to energy sources from the last century."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climategate
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

I guess I’d better set aside some money for plane fare and hotel. We The People are going to have to march on Washington, D.C.


21 posted on 06/02/2010 10:54:44 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obamaman, The Destroyer, continuies his Destruction of the Nation, the United States of Mexico...


22 posted on 06/02/2010 10:54:54 AM PDT by billuk1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OH MY GOSH..can this guy be ANY MORE TONE DEAF?


23 posted on 06/02/2010 10:54:58 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is possible the Democrats won’t even want to be seen in the same state Obama is in.


24 posted on 06/02/2010 10:56:05 AM PDT by listenhillary (You might be a modern LIBERAL if you read 1984 & said "YEAH! That's the world that I want!")
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To: Hildy

“OH MY GOSH..can this guy be ANY MORE TONE DEAF?”

He’s not tone deaf at all. He hears us, he doesn’t care.


25 posted on 06/02/2010 10:57:32 AM PDT by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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To: UCANSEE2

TRANSLATION: “We tried to jam CAP AND TRADE down your throat, and you wouldn’t swallow. So now, we are gonna give it to you as a suppository.”


Hey 0bama: Up yours!

FUBO!!


26 posted on 06/02/2010 11:00:51 AM PDT by unkus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“It’s the economy, Stupid!”

—JAMES CARVILLE, 1992


27 posted on 06/02/2010 11:02:40 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The next American President will win on the campaign promise to UNDO EVERYTHING OBAMA HAS DONE!


28 posted on 06/02/2010 11:12:43 AM PDT by G Larry
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; MozarkDawg
President Obama on Wednesday will promise to find the votes for comprehensive climate change legislation in the "coming months," saying the case for putting a price on the nation's addiction to carbon has been made clear by the environmental catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.

What a simple minded idiot!

Golly little bammy, we can't figure out that you are a "sitting president who is promoting legislation which he will ultimately sign once it passes that directly benefits his cronies and former colleagues at the taxpayers' expense through a situation he himself created prior to taking office." (MozarkDawg)

The Chicago Climate Exchange: a web of lies and corruption brought to us by Barack Obama

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29 posted on 06/02/2010 11:25:23 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: G Larry

Amen.
Further, we can take back the House and Senate with a simple campaign message: “A vote for a Democrat is a vote for Obama...”


30 posted on 06/02/2010 11:36:08 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Nipfan; Amagi; Fiddlstix; Tunehead54; Clive; FrPR; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

31 posted on 06/02/2010 11:37:45 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (America should take a mulligan on the 2008 presidential election.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Ernest_at_the_Beach
I guess it's time for me to say it:

I told you so

32 posted on 06/02/2010 11:41:21 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (EPA will rule your life)
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To: UCANSEE2

LOL! bttt


33 posted on 06/02/2010 11:51:29 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("If Obama Won, Then Why Won't Democrats Run on His Agenda?" ~ Rush Limbaugh - May 19, 2010)
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To: Argus

They will never make the connection, being too dazzled by their messiah.


34 posted on 06/02/2010 12:08:17 PM PDT by greatplains
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
An evil clown should not be running our country!

Hasn't he heard of Climategate?

Hasn't he heard of the fact that 4500 or the 6000 temp gathering stations were closed down because they didn’t show warming? (Very inconvenient data)

He doesn’t know about the 31,000 consensus-busting scientists that say global warming is a scam?

He doesn’t know about the founder of the Weather Channel saying AGW is a hoax?

He didn’t hear about how Spain’s green programs failed?

He knows, but he’s a liar like his buddy al “several million degrees” gore.

“Bye-bye now peasants, you sit in the cold outside and don’t you DARE burn any carbon producing wood while we fly around the world on our jets!”
~ The dynamic “do as I say, not as I do” duo (gore and BO)

35 posted on 06/02/2010 1:55:21 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A dangerous fool!


36 posted on 06/02/2010 1:56:16 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
nation's addiction to carbon

So now it's an addiction to CARBON, not just oil.....

.....It's not an addiction, it's the nature of energy, economics, and the current state of technology.

"Green Energy" is not there and will not be for a long time if ever.

Nuclear power is the only large scale non-carbon based energy available. But the cost to build plants and improve the grid to supply enough capacity for charging a billion electric cars is prohibitive and unnecessary.

I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF LEFTIST ENERGY AND ENVRIO-POLITICS.

37 posted on 06/02/2010 3:34:15 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Obama...Chains you can believe in)
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To: BOBTHENAILER; dixiechick2000

He’s the epitome of ignorance in high places that he’s so danged out of place in!!!


38 posted on 06/02/2010 5:13:57 PM PDT by SierraWasp ("Contempt of Congress" used to be a minor crime. Now it's a badge of honor!!!)
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To: BOBTHENAILER; dixiechick2000
"I told you so

I done tole yew 'bout sayin that there, Mr. Nailerman!!! (smirk)

Hay DixieChick2000! Whadya think about that Gore split-up? I guess they stopped dancin to the Fleetwood Mac "Don't Stop Think About Tamarrah!" Since yer name has "2000" in it, it must be yer fault instead of Geeorrge Bush's as SeeBeeEss has been sayin!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!

39 posted on 06/02/2010 5:22:18 PM PDT by SierraWasp ("Contempt of Congress" used to be a minor crime. Now it's a badge of honor!!!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I hate this communist pofs marxist radical like no other.


40 posted on 06/02/2010 5:31:28 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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