UPDATE: Two Senators cancel their CLEAR climate bill presser, details below the Continue reading line.
Climate bill on the ropes
By: Darren Samuelsohn
July 20, 2010 03:10 PM EDT
The Senate climate bill has been at death’s door several times over the past year. But with the days before the August recess quickly slipping away, the case may truly be terminal now.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has wanted to introduce a sweeping energy and climate bill by next week, and Reid even told POLITICO on Monday night that the package was almost ready to go.
But by Tuesday afternoon, Reid was noncommittal about when a bill would come or what it would contain.
“We’re going to make a decision in the near future,” Reid said, describing plans for a Democratic caucus on the issue Thursday. “We’re really not at a point where I can determine what I think is the best for the caucus and the country at this stage.”
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“The clock is our biggest enemy,” Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) told reporters Tuesday, shortly after a meeting with several major electric utility industry CEOs who asked for a delay in the floor debate. “Some people know that. We have to figure out what is doable in this short span of time. That’s the test, and we’re going to take a look at that.”
Read the entire article at Politico
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UPDATE:
Another sign of Climate bill DOA, I just got this email sent to me. As reported on WUWT in this story yesterday: Two Senators upcoming presser on CLEAR Act
that event is now canceled:
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Controlling Greenhouse Gases: The CLEAR Act Option
With Remarks by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Susan M. Collins (R-Maine)
Thursday, July 29, 2010, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
G11 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20002
1:45 p.m.
Registration
2:00
Introduction:
KENNETH P. GREEN, AEI
2:10
Address:
SENATOR MARIA CANTWELL (D-Wash.)
SENATOR SUSAN M. COLLINS (R-Maine)
2:40
Respondents:
ALAN D. VIARD, AEI
KENNETH P. GREEN, AEI
3:00
Question and Answer
3:30
Adjournment
_______________________________________________________________________________________
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This tune will be very different if November goes as predicted and the Left is voted out overwhelmingly.
The lame duck session will probably bring this bill, and as many other destructive bills back to the floor for votes, as they try to get as much of the agenda passed as possible.
They know they still have the Presidency; they know it can’t be undone.
““The clock is our biggest enemy,” Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) told reporters Tuesday”
Yes indeed, November 2 will be here before you know it.
When one Party has all the cards, all the money, all the votes, all the power, They can pretty much do whatever they want; whenever they want. Don’t assume that anything today works the way “it’s supposed to” or that whatever is said today will mean anything tomorrow, or that the American people won’t get exactly what they deserve for what they did on election day 2008. The first lesson for voters in a democracy, “Don’t Ever Give Any One Party ALL the Marbles! EVER!!!!!!”
It is said that political memory is about 6 weeks. What is now has little effect in November. It’s the people who vote who are the problem not the people they elect.
I want to take this opportunity to thank the Tea Party for electing Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown since he voted for the Financial Reform Bill and help the President of the United States with another legislative victory, thank you Tea Party. Have you heard of “Unintended Consequences” or “Blowback”? Was he working for the Tea Party, himself or our Country, hmmm only you can answer this one?
The problem is this. Tea Party candidates will win a number of these congressional races because local districts are often safely partisan in nature. They can make their wild, unfounded claims, crazy accusations, etc., and win. That means not only are we likely to see an increase in Republican seats in both houses, we’re likely to see more antics, more insanity, more stupidity. At the same time they’re going to do everything they can to derail Obama’s policies which will likely mean high unemployment, a moribund economy, and more compromises on policy positions that make no one happy.
That could literally mean that if the Republicans put up a legitimate candidate in 2012, they could win. Such a result is bad enough, but the likely response for the Democrats is to move further to the “middle” to placate voters. As we’ve seen over the last decade, the “middle” in American politics is basically on the verge of being an 80s Republican. Increasingly that means we’ll have a political landscape of a conservative party and ratfuck insane parties. The former, given it’s track record, slowly moving to the right, the latter, given it’s track record, loudly screaming “socialism, communism, fascism!!!”
If we continue on this course, privatization will be socialism.
Dogmeat says:
July 22, 2010 at 2:29 pm
I was waiting for the incoherent potty-mouthed babbler to show up. Not a cogent thought in the entire diatribe!
Thanks for stopping by, Dogmeat.
I’m quite happy with Scott Brown.
He voted for the fake financial reform bill, which is fine. While there’s no financial reform in it, it’s generally harmless. So Scotty gets to look like a bipartisan compromiser to his leftist Massachusetts electorate by voting for a meaningless bill.
As for “helping the President,” go ask your friends and neighbors, “Hey, what do think about that awesome financial reform? What a win, huh?” As if a complete farce of a bill written by the corrupt Dodd and Frank is going to swing any moderates or turn out any base.
Go Scotty B!!!
As for the overall Tea Party, sure there are some nuts. But mainstream Republicans (Boehner et. al.) are the ones who drove this country into a ditch along with Bush and the Democrats. We need reform so desperately that I’ll take a few kooks along with the wave of reformers.