Bid to kill EPA coal plant regulations thwarted in Senate

The Hill ^ | 6/20/12 | Ben Geman and Daniel Strauss

[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 Inhofe’s (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 Inhofe’s 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.

[Nachum]

Obama and Agenda 21

[MHGinTN]

Harry ‘big Mormon Priest’ Reid, enemy of the Republic.

[Lurker]

We can make a pretty good guess as to who the 5 RINOs were.

[Carriage Hill]

Those 53 *traitors* need to be stood against a wall.

[grobdriver]

Five Republicans joined 48 Democrats

! ! ! !

[montag813]

Five Republicans

Let me guess...BrownEye, RumCollins, SnoweJob, Mur-cow-ski and Count DracLugar?

[JRandomFreeper]

Five Republicans joined

Which pricks did that?

/johnny

[pabianice]

Why Romney isn’t using this to rhetorically bludgeon to death all coal state Dems is a mystery.

[WellyP]

Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Scott Brown (Mass.) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)

[Timber Rattler]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

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.

[Hardraade]

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.

[Crazieman]

but, but, anyone but obama will show us the way to enlightenment!

/sarc /retard

[MHGinTN]

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.

[ZULU]

“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.”

[kenmcg]

Kelly Ayote (aka coyote) was supposedly being vetted for VP...can the jerk!

[from occupied ga]

If you want a preview of Romney, just look at Scott Brown. or Romney’s own record.

[onemiddleamerican]

Bingo!

RINOs should be an endangered species extinct.

[tbpiper]

Five Republicans joined 48 Democrats

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.

[Menehune56]

What is with the New England Republicans on this issue? Manmade global warming? Or just general pandering to the leftist base?

Lamar Alexander I can write off as a grandstander.