Does Lindsay Graham support cap and trade?

  Yesterday I wrote an article about Lindsay Graham in which I stated that I thought he supported the cap and trade portion of the climate change bill. I may have been mistaken, it appears as if he supports A climate change bill but not THE climate change bill that was introduced by John Kerry and Barbara Boxer last month.

  In the editorial that Lindsay Graham co-wrote with John Kerry he stated that “we are also convinced that we have found a framework for climate legislation to pass Congress.” The question remains, what is in that framework? Certainly John Kerry, who is a leading proponent of the energy tax otherwise known as cap and trade, will not give up on this portion of the bill. Any bill that John Kerry supports will have cap and trade in it.

  Lindsay Graham has stated that he is for getting a climate change bill passed and that now is the time to act. If his idea is to allow cap and trade in order to get nuclear power and oil drilling language inserted into the bill that is not good enough. Cap and trade must be defeated.

  I would offer a full retraction of yesterday’s article but the fact is that we do not know where Lindsay Graham stands on this issue anymore, we do not know what he is willing to negotiate, all we do know is that he is willing to negotiate and he wants a climate change bill passed in the near future.

  We will be watching him closely.