Posted on 04/25/2010 7:35:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's climate change agenda was thrown into turmoil Sunday after a key Republican abruptly pulled his support for a compromise energy and climate bill in a blow to Democrats.
Senator Lindsey Graham, an influential Republican, abandoned what Democrats said was a painstakingly negotiated climate bill in outrage over a decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to move an immigration bill in the Senate ahead of it.
White House officials appeared to be taken aback by the move, unsure how to respond to the unraveling of a major component of the president's strategy both for meeting his international pledges on climate change and shifting the US economy from its heavy reliance on foreign oil.
"We need and we welcome that cooperation from Senator Graham. They are both important. There is no either/or between energy and immigration reform," said Lawrence Summers, the head of the White House National Economic Council.
"Even though immigration reform and energy reform are both crucial issues for the business community, there has been an enormous back pressure against the kind of bipartisan cooperation that Senator Graham has engaged in, and that perhaps has made this a more complex situation, more difficult for him than it would otherwise be," he told CBS's "Face the Nation" show.
"But we are prepared to go ahead vigorously with any partner who wants to join us on both energy reform and immigration legislation because we think gridlock needs to end," he said.
Reid's sudden shift in legislative priorities comes as Democrats face an increasingly hostile climate in November midterm elections.
Obama won 67 percent of the Hispanic vote in the 2008 presidential elections, but Hispanics have grown impatient with the administration as immigration reform has been sidelined by other priorities.
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Priority One!!
It will be interesting to see if Grahamnesty continues his support for amnesty.
He won’t if he wants to be re-elected...
How does he plan to shift our "reliance on foreign oil" other than by ruining the economy so we can't afford to use oil? Teasers about opening up more domestic drilling and/or more nuclear power (somewhere in the distant future?) totally lack credibility.
Oil stocks should go up Monday.
“turmoil?”.....I don’t think we’ve seen ANYTHING YET!
Any connection between this and the rumors now being floated that Graham is, ahem, gay?
It will be interesting to see if Grahamnesty continues his support for amnesty.
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He’d do well to observe his good buddy and mentor McAmnesty struggle in the AZ polls!
This is why RINOs can’t be trusted...you never know what they’re going to do!
I expect the republicans to fillibuster immigration and I’d imagine that since they p*ssed Graham off he’ll go along with it? Unemployment is far too high to even consider ding anything except sending illegal home.
He’ll cave-—mark my words——TOO MUCH NEW TAX MONEY in Cap & Tax bill.
Obama has the pictures.
BUSH’S FOUL HANDS ARE EVERYWHERE! NOTHING IS SAFE FROM HIM!
Senator Lindsey Graham, an influential RINO....
Who’ll cave? Little lilly-livered limp-wristed Lindsay? He reminds me of that bit that femenazis played at higher speeds by Rush sounded like... “WE’RE FIERCE!!! WE’RE FEMINISTS WE’RE IN YOUR FACE!!!” Ha Ha Ha!!! (real men laughing uncontrolably in the background)
“Reid’s sudden shift in legislative priorities comes as Democrats face an increasingly hostile climate in November midterm elections.”
There IS a reason.
I think it’s a fact, not fiction.
Lindsey Graham is a Poofta who wants everybody to pay higher energy taxes on food, gas, and other essential items like electricity, rent, and water.
This Poofta Lindsey Graham is threatening the wallets of free people everywhere.
Does the Pope support Catholicism?
You nailed it-—little lindsey with a lisp is just acting mean right now. He’ll be back in bed with his RAT partners soon.
Not so...glut of oil and a lot of full tankers parked...
We could see DOW over 11,500 in the next couple weeks because of this alone.
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