Posted on 06/20/2012 11:23:22 AM PDT by Nachum
Senate lawmakers on Wednesday blocked a GOP-led effort to scuttle Environmental Protection Agency regulations that mandate cuts in mercury pollution and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants.
The 46-53 vote against Sen. James Inhofes (R-Okla.) resolution staves off what would have been a stinging election-year rebuke of the White House green agenda.
Five Republicans joined 48 Democrats in blocking Inhofes measure to overturn regulations that coal industry groups and other critics contend will hurt the economy, cause power costs to spike and force numerous plants to shutter.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Harry ‘big Mormon Priest’ Reid, enemy of the Republic.
We can make a pretty good guess as to who the 5 RINOs were.
Those 53 *traitors* need to be stood against a wall.
! ! ! !
Let me guess...BrownEye, RumCollins, SnoweJob, Mur-cow-ski and Count DracLugar?
Which pricks did that?
/johnny
Why Romney isn’t using this to rhetorically bludgeon to death all coal state Dems is a mystery.
Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Scott Brown (Mass.) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
To be clear, without those republican votes, it would have been 51 to 48, to end the EPA’s tyrannical approach.
So ask yourself my friends. Is it important to have an (R) majority, or is it important to have a (C) majority?
We have got to get rid of the Democrats in our party.
Why the US parties do not have an exclusion mechanism is really beyond me. It’s making the whole system basically a one-party deal.
but, but, anyone but obama will show us the way to enlightenment!
/sarc /retard
As a Tennessean I can assure you we’re wroking on getting rid of Alexander ... he makes us hillbillys look brilliant but he ain’t a friend of the Republic.
“Sens. Mary Landrieu (La.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Mark Warner (Va.) and Jim Webb (Va.) were the five senators voting for Inhofe’s resolution. Meanwhile, Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Scott Brown (Mass.) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) joined Democrats in opposing the resolution.”
Kelly Ayote (aka coyote) was supposedly being vetted for VP...can the jerk!
If you want a preview of Romney, just look at Scott Brown. or Romney’s own record.
RINOs should be an endangered species extinct.
Who are the traitors?
Meanwhile, Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Scott Brown (Mass.) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) joined Democrats in opposing the resolution.
Lamar Alexander I can write off as a grandstander.
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