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Democrats Having Trouble Getting Cap & Trade Passed Because of Democrats

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 14th, 2009 at 10:07 AM  | 

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Barack Obama and Harry Reid are having trouble getting cap and trade passed through the Senate. And it is not the Republicans who are the problem. Even with a filibuster proof Democrat majority, Democrats cannot get cap and trade passed.

Why?

Democrats are beginning to admit Barack Obama’s environmental agenda will destroy the economy.

“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.” . . . .

Ben Nelson of Nebraska and North Dakota Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan joined Lincoln in suggesting that the climate measure be put off.

The problem though is Barack Obama has set up a catch-22 situation. His Environmental Protection Agency has asserted its power to regulate carbon dioxide if Congress doesn’t.

So one way or the other, our economy is probably screwed.

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  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    from ruining the economy via an energy tax

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • dhorowitz3

    It amazing what an election year could do. Byron Dorgan always talks conservative in North Dakota while voting with the turds for the most part in DC. Then when it gets closer to election years he eases off. Dorgan is up for election this cycle and poupular Gov. John Hoeven is contemplating a run for his seat. Dorgan knows that this cap and trade thing is a dead rat for him that will drag him down. Dotto for Lincoln in Arkansas, although I don’t know if there is a viable challenger yet.

  • Swamp_Yankee

    Wont be loaded with crap like the C&T bill. Plus, they are easily overturned. Overturning legislation is extremely hard, even assuming Republicans capture both Houses and the Presidency.

  • Kayla

    Get rid of these so called “conservative democrats!!!”

  • Swamp_Yankee

    He seems to be the only legit contender.

    He can put some heat on Lincoln.

    Hoevan, fear the stache!

  • paint_it_red

    As it would require Republicans to revoke the law legislatively as it would not likely be found unconstitutional. The regs though are more easily challenged, less readily enforced, and more easily changed.

  • LISA BULLOCK-HOCK

    the american people know that this is a scam and won’t help carbon emissions, it just will take our money and keep us in our place. I swear all I hear from the Democrats are new taxes for this and that and how much money they want to spend. It’s like with your kids, sometimes you just have to say “No you can’t have that–We don’t have the money”

  • LISA BULLOCK-HOCK

    the american people know that this is a scam and won’t help carbon emissions, it just will take our money and keep us in our place. I swear all I hear from the Democrats are new taxes for this and that and how much money they want to spend. It’s like with your kids, sometimes you just have to say “No you can’t have that–We don’t have the money”