Senate to prepare a new climate change bill
The Senate will prepare a new climate change bill and according to this article, it will be “softened up” in order to gain the support of Republicans in an attempt to get the 60 votes needed to pass it.
some Democrats say the passage of healthcare reform has opened the door for climate change legislation, while acknowledging tradeoffs will be needed to secure 60 Senate votes. “They know that to pass a comprehensive bill they will have to ease concerns of some special interests and mid-western senators whose states have manufacturing-oriented economies,” said Daniel J. Weiss, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a liberal think-tank.
My question is, why bother? When I ask that question I am not asking “why bother” attempting to pass a new climate change bill, I am asking “why bother” pretending that a 60 vote majority is needed to pass the bill. When the Democrats invoked what they once called the “nuclear option” to pass healthcare reform they showed the American people that they are just going to do whatever the hell they want to, the American people be damned. Why now pretend that they need or care about acquiring a 60 vote majority when they are perfectly capable of– and entirely willing to– bending the rules and passing it with a simple majority?
It seems to me that this is just an attempt to smooth over the hurt that they have caused to the majority of Americans who oppose them, but in the end if they need to use reconciliation to pass this bill that is precisely what they will do. Perhaps they are leery of using reconciliation a second time to screw over the American people, but with the arm twisting of the president coupled with the sweetheart deals that are sure to follow they will do whatever it takes to pass a climate change bill and it doesn’t matter whether the American people want it or not.
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I assume you mean a softer Cap and Trade bill. Cap and Trade (as I think we all know here) is not about climate. It’s about the controlling ideologies of the left being enabled through the back door route of “environmentalism.”
They will go as far as they can while they can, all the while writing into law a concrete structure so as to keep any future administration or effort from being able to reverse the effect.
I am sure that Obama’s handlers see the impending bloodbath as well worth the cost.
They know they are in for a beating in November and they know that eventually the American people will forget and vote the progressives back into their offices to resume their hobbies. The structure of which will be waiting for them untouched by meddling hands.
Let’s hope they find that this time it does not work, that America sees once and for all the communist nature of the progressive movement and vote’s in Conservatives unafraid of the borg of lawyers acting as shields to the progressive infrastructure designed to enslave a populous.
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Yeah, a softer cap and trade. They are talking about a regional system and not a national system. As if that makes it more bearable. The intention of the legislation– which you pointed out– is still the same, the door must not ever be opened to this. Once opened, they will take more and more.
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I like your take on this. They’re going to play nice, and when the GOP says that they aren’t going to support this job killing monstrosity, the Dems and MSM will call them the “party of no” some more. Then, they’ll use reconciliation to pass it anyway.
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That is the way I see this playing out. They will get what they want on both counts– the bill and labeling Republicans as obstructionists. They forget however that the American people wanted them to be obstructionists on healthcare refirm.
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