Posted on 05/04/2011 5:23:02 AM PDT by library user
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson hopes that Osama bin Laden's death will spur President Barack Obama to promote climate change legislation.
“My hope is that from this success in the foreign policy arena two days ago, that he will be emboldened to take once again to the Congress legislation — not just to increase a renewable energy standard — but climate change legislation that this country and the world need,” Richardson said Tuesday at a Climate Leadership Gala hosted by the Earth Day Network in Washington.
Climate change legislation, particularly anything labeled as toxic as “cap and trade,” is seen as non-starter while Republicans hold the House and many Senate Democrats are wary of the issue. But Richardson warned climate bill backers against standing on the sidelines.
“We can sit back and say, ‘Well we’ll wait until the next election, wait until the political climate is better.’ You know if we do that, we’re doomed — if we don’t take action right away,” he said.
The former energy secretary and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration called for a comprehensive nationwide greenhouse gas reduction program in addition to a national renewable energy standard.
Richardson suggested Obama offer Congress two options: an economy-wide cap-and-trade program with stringent timetables over several decades and a carbon tax. And if Congress fails to do either of those, EPA must plow ahead with climate change regulations, he said.
“I’m still one of those who supports cap and trade, but it’s good I believe to offer choices,” he said.
WTF?!
translation:
“OK, Osama’s dead, now can I get my pony? Please....!”
This administration really is detached from reality. What has one thing got to do with the other?
Liberal Pretzel Logic.
LLS
I agree. We desperately need climate change legislation.
We need to decree that the temperature in May will never be below 55 degrees (It was 38 this morning when I woke up. I WANT MY GLOBAL WARMING).
A law must be made here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there’s a legal limit to the snow here
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
And while we’re at it a Skittles dispensing unicorn must be provided to each family that wants one.
Sounds like a guy with a significant portion of his retirement portfolio invested in GE stock.
Shove your effin' con game, frito bandito.
And republicans refuse to call it insanity.
Don’t you know dropping his body in the ocean raised the water temp 5 degrees?
It’s a bit like saying the death of OBL provides a great opportunity for Fat Bill Richardson to lose some weight.
Bill Ahole Richardson = FUBAR Where do these convoluted, collectivist commies get their logic? Tactics of totalitarians.
Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians.
(so seething just now reading comments) GRRRRRRRREAT comments BUMP! FUBAR
I’m sure everyone who is paying attention noticed the dramatic drop in the value of your IRA portfolios yesterday.
Hmmm... could it be that the market is seeing the bathturds in power for another 6 years because they got bin Ladin?
Doesn't Cap and Trade Tax take away choice, Bill?
Somebody tell this guy the next time he comes out of his coma that the House of Representatives is in the hands of Republicans who do not believe any of this nonsense.
Ping.
I believe that you have just come up with additional verses to “Camelot” - Good Job!
Bill is just picking up on Barry’s line that due to the success of the UBL deal that Congress should come together in unity on Barry’s agenda to destroy America.
The southwest sun makes our fools grow big and juicy.
Yep, politicizing 9/11 and the death of OBL. It's never about what's good for America, but what's good politics.
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