Posted on 07/30/2022 7:30:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Five days after talks collapsed around Senate Democrats’ long-stalled package to combat climate change, temperatures were rising — literally and figuratively.
It was July 19, and an oppressive heat wave was blanketing the United States. Another shattered records throughout Europe, even melting the roads as cyclists competed in the Tour de France. And in Washington, Democrats were fuming, frustrated that a precious opportunity to respond to the climate crisis had once again slipped away.
At the center of the impasse was Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.). A moderate swing vote and longtime budget hawk.
At the White House, President Biden already had issued an ultimatum, telling members of Congress he would fire off new executive orders if they did not pass a law.
Little did many Democrats know, however, Manchin was already back at the table — in another round of fierce discussions with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). Soon, the steady mix of public pressure, private pleading and persistent negotiation would lead the two men to produce what once seemed unthinkable: a deal on the largest burst of climate-related spending in U.S. history that took nearly all of Washington by surprise.
The story of that breakthrough is one of intense talks and high emotions over a period of about two weeks, according to more than two dozen people familiar with the matter, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a process so secretive that few knew about it at the time. The journey spanned basement backrooms of the Capitol, countless hours of phone calls — and a virtual handshake that clinched the arrangement over Zoom, since the coronavirus had trapped Manchin at home.
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Fixed it.
Another shining example of objective reporting from the consummate news professionals in the US media.
If you think you can change the weather , climate and temperatures on the planet Earth by spending money you are completely CRAZY
When it supports the narrative, it's "climate". When it counters the narrative, it's "just weather".
And if you don't know the difference, you're some deplorable rube.
I understand why the Democrats can’t dump their climate charade, which is either not believed by the majority or discounted to some degree. The “crisis” is what fires up the base and a fired-up base is far better than reasonable economic policies since those would be conservative and not the hysterically crazy the-world-is-dying-we-must-dump-civilization-to-save-ourselves. (Oh, and two or three billion will die of starvation, but nobody important.)
Having resuscitated the “crisis” the Democrats will run into the physics rule of any force is met by an equal and opposite force. Assuming Republicans run on reasonable policies and don’t bow to an artificial crisis then they should sweep the next election. The question is, will they get rid of the policies that lead to the sweep? If Obama care is any lesson, probably not.
As an aside, I can’t count the number of movies or YouTube sci-fi shorts that start out with something like, “It’s year 2xxx and Earth is dying from heat.” (I understand that’s probably the only way to get funding, but still, it’s revoltingly political propaganda.) I won’t watch any of that fecal material. We are smack in the middle of an interglacial warm period. It’s sobering to realize that virtually all of civilization has formed in a relatively brief warm period in what has normally been worldwide glaciers.
I hate these people.
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High gas ⛽ prices
High food prices
War
Democrats: Global Warming!!!! Our priority is Global Warming!!!!
🤷♀️🤷♂️🙄🙄🙄
The Repukes saved it.
And a year from now they will be redefining the word Depression.
There are many natural climate cycles. The annual seasons are the shortest cycle. There are also natural climate cycles on Earth that last years, centuries and millennia.
The worst heat wave in my lifetime was in 1980, when it got above 100 every day for almost two months in most of Texas. The heat waves in the 1930s and in the 1950s were worse. The 1950s heat wave is considered the worst heat wave of record in Texas, mainly because we do not have statewide temperature records going back much before 1900.
Oh brother. The Washington comPost is trying to make this look like high drama.
Please.
It was a payoff. Pure and simple.
executive orders this is what they do what they don’t get their way
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