Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/10/2010 11:15:05 AM PDT by jazusamo
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has "total confidence" that he can defeat the Senate energy bill with bipartisan support.
After meeting with President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders, McConnell told reporters that Obama and his allies are trying to use the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a "rationale" for passing cap-and-trade.
Despite McConnell's (R-Ky.) confidence, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he has planned a meeting with Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) on Wednesday afternoon, and scheduled a caucus on the bill with Senate Democrats next week.
Reid did not answer questions about McConnell's assurance that he can defeat the proposal which has already passed the House.
McConnell, joined by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), said Obama and Democrats are "seizing on the oil spill in the Gulf, and using that as a rationale, if you will, to pass a national energy tax referred to down here at the White House as cap-and-trade."
McConnell said Obama "continues to support" the legislation that the minority leader says "has absolutely nothing to do with the environmental disaster we're facing in the Gulf."
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the words "cap-and-trade" never came up during the meeting, but McConnell did make clear to the president his opposition to the energy legislation in the Senate.
McConnell said his party is willing to work with the Obama administration on legislation that is appropriate to the spill like reforming the Minerals Management Service.
But Boehner was defiant, saying "both the administration and BP should be held responsible for the various failures."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) credited Obama for sending Attorney General Eric Holder to the region to investigate and pursue criminal charges over the explosion and subsequent clean-up.
Pelosi said there was a "lack of integrity" demonstrated by BP in the aftermath of the explosion, and she said the government should intercede to ensure that BP is paying out claims to small businesses before it makes good on its dividends to shareholders.
"Of course, and that would be their best public relations instead of taking out all these ads," Pelosi said.
That Harry Reid, what a far left kook!!!
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That is because Obama does not give a damn about the Gulf, the leak or anything else related to it. Cap and Tax is just that — another SOCIALIST TAX to support radical socialism. This is what happens when you put a radical, anti-American ideologue in the Oval Office instead of a president.
Obama and Rahm are trying to get votes using the “buffet strategy” (meaning all-you-can-eat pork). Hope Mitch has an answer for that.
Amen!
You’re right but even a lot of Dems now are starting to realize their spending is over the top.
I hope so.
If true, this is the best news I’ve heard all year.
It sure is. Rockefeller says he’ll vote with Repubs and an article I read a day or two ago mentioned it was unsure how Byrd would vote but he may also.
If he can pull it off, he deserves a hefty pat on the back.
Agreed.
Good grief! Pelosi accusing others of a lack of integrity is pathetic!
That stood out when I read it also. She doesn’t know the meaning of the word.
Mitchie the Kid has come out from under his desk to actually TAKE A STAND on something?? WOW!!! That’s really going out on a limb for YOU, isn’t it Mitchie!
I seem to remember McConnell telling us that health care wasn’t going to happen either. hmmm.....just saying
They’ve gotten most of the regulation they wanted via executive fiat with EPA, and the Republicans failed to block that today. All stopping this does is keep them from taxing it and making a boatload of money for Gore and other Dem enablers, which isn’t trivial, but we still haven’t stopped the real economic damage.
You’re right. I saw that the RATS shot it down today, was hoping the EPA would be cut off at the knees.
Don’t know if that can be undone later or how difficult that might be, do you?
Hopefully it can come up again after we take the Senate (fingers crossed), but I don’t know.
>Rockefeller says he’ll vote with Repubs and an article I read a day or two ago mentioned it was unsure how Byrd would vote but he may also.<
Considering Cap and Trade would decimate West Virginia’s primary industry, (coal) he would be committing political suicide if he didn’t oppose that bill.
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