Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/22/2010 2:05:08 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
The Washington Post reports:
Conceding they can't find enough votes for the measure, Senate Democrats will announce Thursday they are abandoning for now efforts to put together a comprehensive energy bill that would seek to limit greenhouse gas emissions, ending the immediate prospect for a key legislative priority of President Obama and congressional Democrats.
Instead, Democrats, according to sources, will push for a more limited bill that would seek to increase liability costs that oil companies would pay following spills such as the one in the Gulf of Mexico and would create additional incentives for the purchase of both natural gas vehicles and products that can be used to reduce energy use in homes. And they have not ruled out pushing for a more comprehensive bill during the session Congress will have after the November election.
Efforts to put together a major bill to limit carbon emissions and encourage the use of alternative energy sources had long been considered doomed in the Senate, even though the House has approved a bill that would set a limit on overall emissions of greenhouse gases while allowing utilities and other emitters to trade pollution permits.
Senate Democrats had remained deeply divided on the issue... and there was virtually no GOP support on the issue... The decision by Democrats mean that two major issues they had pledged to take on this year, energy reform and immigration, could remain unresolved before the midterm elections...
And you know the Senate would have forced it through for Dear Leader if they felt it politically possible... but with today's all-time record low congressional approval of 11%, they're right to worry: besides the fact that they just can't scrape up enough votes for Obama's far-Left agenda any longer, there's a harsh retribution coming in November, just 14 weeks from now... and you can take that to the bank.
Packing their bags... what they need is tar and feathering... nothing less.
Exactly.
Gonna be a wild ride when these liberal fools get their walking papers with a month before being thrown out.
I expect all sorts of obnoxious stunts in the lame duck session... it’s Obama’s last chance to pass ANYthing, imo
GOP will be wearing the pants soon, defunding Obamacare, and opening up a few investigations... time to politically neuter these freaks
Why anyone would WANT to limit the emission of the most important of greenhouse gases, water vapor, is altogether beyond me. It would be an absolutely impossible task, like sweeping the sand off the desert floor in the Sahara.
And that insignificant little bit of carbon dioxide? That is plant food. Without it, plants die. And when plants die, we die.
Not what I would call a win-win situation.
” and opening up a few investigations”?
Try a whole passel of investigations commited by these unAmerican marxist bastards.
Will be fun,
When Bill Clinton came to Sewells Point for a fund raiser the streets were lined with protesters.
This marxist pos comes anywhere near me I’ll go with one nasty sign.
Don’t think he’ll be too welcome too many places.
His fellow dems will find him radio active.
They will try again in Obama’s 2nd term, if not removed from power.
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