Climate change bill delayed as senate debates healthcare reform

  There is one bright side to the healthcare reform bill and the debate that follows in the senate– the debate over healthcare reform has made the climate change bill a casualty; at least for now.

  With the senate about to become immersed in the healthcare debate, (the issue that Barack Obama has made the highest priority of his domestic agenda), the senate was forced to push back the introduction of the climate change bill. Every cloud has a silver lining is how the old saying goes and this is the one silver lining in the healthcare debate. One horrible piece of legislation has been stalled by the other horrible piece of legislation.

  With any luck the healthcare debate will drag out over the Winter before ultimately being defeated thereby politically neutering the president who will then not have enough political capital to pass the climate change legislation. We must remember that if the president is successful in passing even one of these two bills that there is another agenda item to be debated next– amnesty for illegal aliens.

  The healthcare debate has stalled the climate change bill and it has probably delayed the start of immigration reform and for that we should be grateful but if the president manages to pass healthcare reform we can count on the fact that these next two agenda items will be much more easily passable.