I wholeheartedly agree. Let's postpone debate on Cap-And-Tax until the 2010 election year. It will be one of the next big fights after we've defeated Obamacare.
From Daniel Whitten and Simon Lomax of Bloomberg:
| The U.S. Senate should abandon efforts to pass legislation curbing greenhouse-gas emissions this year and concentrate on a narrower bill to require use of renewable energy, four Democratic lawmakers say. “The problem of doing both of them together is that it becomes too big of a lift,” Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas said in an interview last week. “I see the cap-and-trade being a real problem.” |
Lincoln isn't the only one. Anyone who has read the Cap-And-Tax bill knows that it will cause energy prices to "skyrocket" which is exactly what Obama said he wanted to see happen.
More:
| Ben Nelson of Nebraska and North Dakota Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan joined Lincoln in suggesting that the climate measure be put off. “We should separate the energy bill from the climate bill,” Conrad told reporters this month. ‘It needs to be done as soon as we can get it done,” he said, referring to the energy legislation. Climate legislation would require 60 votes in the Senate. Most Republicans have said they oppose the cap-and-trade measure, and at least 15 of the Senate’s 60-member Democratic majority have said the House-passed version would hurt the economy and needs to be revamped to win their support. |
You have to wonder if all the pressure we are putting on Congress over socialized medicine is starting to force some sanity on these people.
You can access the complete article on-line here:
Climate Change Measure Should Be Set Aside, U.S. Senators Say
Daniel Whitten and Simon Lomax
Bloomberg.com
August 14, 2009
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