Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/25/2010 8:38:49 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
The current predicament of the Senate climate and energy proposal, which was attractive enough to lure the leaders of not only the Christian Coalition but also ConocoPhillips, Exelon and Duke Energy to a now-canceled bill launch Monday, underscores the fragility of its support.
The same political forces that have repeatedly shunted climate change to the back burner -- partisanship and its low rank on voters' priority list -- have made passing a bill a herculean task. It encountered another hurdle this weekend when Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), one of its authors along with Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), said he was abandoning it unless climate legislation moved ahead of immigration on the Senate calendar.
For months, the three senators tried to assemble an inside-the-Beltway pact on climate change by reconciling the needs of the business and environmental communities. Now the fate of the bill rests on the prospects of a very different deal: one between Graham and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who sees immigration reform as more essential than energy to his reelection bid.
"I've got some political courage, but I'm not stupid," Graham said in an interview Saturday. "The only reason I went forward is, I thought we had a shot if we got the business and environmental community behind our proposal, and everybody was focused on it. What's happened is that firm, strong commitment disappeared."
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Like McPain there is no way I can trust anything Lindsey Graham is doing. Sad, but he brought it on himself.
I'm sure that Graham's South Carolina constituency is all in favor of carbon taxes, terrorists in the US, and Amnesty, but that dang party leadership is getting in the way.
I’m sure that Graham’s South Carolina constituency is all in favor of carbon taxes, terrorists in the US, and Amnesty, but that dang party leadership is getting in the way.
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Bye Bye RINO in November.
So we have one Rino who is going to swing country changing legislation one way or another?
I have bad news! This a-hole is set til 2014.
Sounds like he is looking for as big a payoff as he can get.
The good news is, Juan McCain isn't going to be there for him to hand the RINOskin off to while he puts on his "conservative" campaign hat!
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