Senators prepare compromise climate change bill (RINOs working with Rats again)

yahoo ^ | 4/11/2010 | Richard Cowan/Reuters

[tobyhill]

Six months after introducing a sweeping climate change bill that flopped in the Senate, Democrat John Kerry is preparing to offer a compromise measure that seeks to reel in reluctant senators.

Kerry, collaborating with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and independent Senator Joseph Lieberman, might introduce a new bill promoting clean energy early next week, just days before the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, environmental sources said.

Despite Kerry's consistently upbeat assessment of legislative prospects this year, the new bill also faces plenty of hurdles.

On Friday, a new problem potentially arose when U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement. President Barack Obama said he would move quickly to name a replacement.

That will trigger a Senate confirmation debate that could eat up time -- like the healthcare debate did over the past year -- that otherwise could be spent on the complicated, far-reaching energy and environment bill.

Reacting to the news of Stevens' retirement, Kerry insisted there was time to pass major legislation "and still confirm a new justice."

"Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman will unveil their proposal later this month," Kerry spokeswoman Whitney Smith said, adding Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was "committed to making this Congress the one that finally passes comprehensive energy and climate legislation."

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This will devastate manufacturers and the trucking industry. Pretty soon there won’t be any jobs left in this country.

[OldMissileer]

These RINOs think compromise is so magnanimous when they are just selling out our Country for some “feel good” BS.

[rawhide]

SC Republican voters are as stupid in re-electing Sen Graham as the Jews are in supporting the Democrats!

[EBH]

Additional info: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2486223/posts

[Tzimisce]

Compromise: Okay, we’ll take your freedom AND your money and you can thank us for it. :)

[Will88]

Lindsey Graham, doing the work Juan McCain won’t do (while trying to hoodwink his way to another six years).

I bet it just about kills Juan to have sit out all those golden opportunities to collude with the Dims and stab the Republicans and conservatives in the back. I bet he’s so jealous of Lindsey having all the fun and getting all the recognition.

[Renegade]

Can’t believe that we have to put up with that dog face Senator named Kerry again. These people don’t live in the real world. A forest fire or volcanic eruption puts more crap in the air in a couple days than all the cars and factories running 24/7 for years .
This country won’t be on the right track till these a$$holes have been delegated to the crap pile of history .

[Husker24]

No “compromise” is when we do half of what the Democrats want now, and then when we “compromise” again two years later to do the other half.

[tobyhill]

“A third sector, transportation, would see a tax levied on refined oil products, a Senate source told Reuters last week, with the expectation it would be passed on to consumers when they buy gasoline and other fuel products.”

If the company passes on the tax to the consumer does that constitute a tax increase to consumers? I'm sure Obama will claim it doesn't.

[Dawgreg]

Take names and kick arse in November...

[J Edgar]

“SC Republican voters are as stupid in re-electing Sen Graham as the Jews are in supporting the Democrats!”

I honestly canot grasp the mentality of either group - I just hope and pray I don’t have to add Arizona voters to the list of “Unexplainable Stupids”!

[chris_bdba]

Someone needs to whisper to Graham that if he doesn’t stop acting like a liberal democrap that the tea partiers will target him too!

[dalebert]

very true

[dalebert]

old lindsey is a regular old lefty. what a cheap sold out pimp he is.

[ronnie raygun]

These pri##s have to go!

[hstacey]

Then he needs to be retired...What he’s doing makes me sick. Enough already and get out of our pocketbooks!!!

[upchuck]

Lady Lindsey is working w/ RAT skerry and RAT lieberman on this.
He's working with RAT Chuck U Schumer on legalizing the criminal aliens.
I'd like to put a sentence in here about projects Wimpy is working on with the pubbies... {crickets}

Uber RINO Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."

From left: RAT, RINO, RAT

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[dalebert]

I suggest we all let the republicans know what we think if lindsey ...start with your congressmen and the republican leadership..of course i dont have much faith that the republican party has changed its stripes ...just business as usual and we are the losers.

[Kenny]

For God’s sake! Stop doing anything, Congress. You’re killing us.