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In Other, Completely Unrelated News, Climate Change Legislation Takes Back Burner

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  January 20th, 2010 at 11:15 AM  | 

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US climate bill on back burner – Upstream Online

US Senator Byron Dorgan [D-ND] said today he did not think the Senate would pass climate change legislation this year, but instead would focus on separate energy legislation that would require more electricity supplies to be generated from renewable sources and expand offshore drilling into the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Sen. Dorgan: Drop Climate Bill, Energy Bill Has Better Chance (WSJ.com)

“In the aftermath of a very, very heavy lift on health care, I think it is unlikely that the Senate will turn next to a very complicated and very controversial subject of cap-and-trade, climate legislation,” Dorgan told reporters on a conference call. “I think it is more compelling to turn to an energy bill that is bipartisan.” …

Dorgan also predicted that the U.S. Senate would support a measure to mandate that as much as 20% of the country’s energy come from renewable resources. The Senate energy panel had voted for a smaller 15% mandate.

Good luck with that last part. The Congress has already mandated a laughably high mandate for ethanol usage by 2022 that even the Department of Energy doesn’t think is achievable.

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  • 10ksnooker

    With giant ‘carbon tax’ … Now where I have heard it before?

  • johnt

    Genius, pure genius ! Everything going for them and after one year this is it. And to think LittleLiberals and the media want these clucks to do, or try to do, more.
    So how’s The O looking now?

    • E Pluribus Unum
  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    Many of them voted for it, including my congresswoman who co-sponsored it. They aren’t going to just disappear it, as though it didn’t happen, though many of them will try.

    • spainishirish

      I plan to remind people of that fact often in the next few months.

  • http://twitter.com/JoeKenHa joekenha

    who these people were before Democrats had unchecked power.

  • earlgrey

    A journalist is an unbiased observer of human events

    A scientist is an unbiased observer of the physical world.

    Of course there is no such thing as unbiased. This is why you must have debate and allow for conflicting opinions (or studies) to be aired and discussed openly. Today those that dissent either in the policy or scientific theory are discredited to silence them.

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com/ThroughThePrism Veronica Estrada

    http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-1389

    Go back to the drawing board & start small.

  • guyton80

    These’s law makers do not need to be focusing on this particular bill. There are more important thing’s, like jobs, jobs, jobs. Yeah this bill can wait until 2011 seriously.

  • Common_Cents

    Nobody in DC really wants to rock the boat. They don’t want to work hard, other than doing what it takes to win re-election. They are there to party, talk smart, collect a paycheck and a life time pension.

    Even Harry Reid said Obama made him work too hard.

    The word is now out. Obama has no clothes.

  • yoyo

    Twice in three months.

    Once by the Charleston County GOP (last November) and again this month by the Lexington County GOP (State Capitol).

    Interesting caveat from Graham and his spokesman, Kevin Bishop have been dismissing the censure outright, not based on facts, but by character assassination… sound familiar?

    According to the Politico (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31168.html), LOG says:
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    Graham attacked the author of the resolution ? Talbert Black, the Interim State Director for Ron Paul?s Campaign for Liberty ? in an interview with POLITICO, and argued that the Lexington County GOP has been taken over by activists that do not truly represent the GOP.

    ?The author of the resolution says that both parties are a joke and that you need to work outside of the parties. He has never voted for a Republican nominee for president in his life,? Graham said. ?I?d argue that his criticism is not from that of a Republican, but from someone who is out of the mainstream politically.?

    ?It?s hard to take a guy seriously as a Republican Party leader when he?s never voted for a Republican for president,? he added.
    ===============================

    However, The Greenville News (http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20100119/NEWS/1190307/1011/NEWS03/Censures-against-Lindsey-Graham-divide-gubernatorial-candidates) had this:

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    Graham spokesman Kevin Bishop said the senator is focused on ?growing the Republican Party both here at home and across the nation? and encouraging citizens to ?join the fight against the radical agenda of President Obama and Democrats in Congress.?

    Rich Bolen, chairman of the Lexington County Republican Party, said 13 precinct representatives voted for the resolution and seven against. Bolen, an attorney, said he didn?t vote because he was presiding over the proceeding.
    =========================

    So, how, EXACTLY, is working to get Crap n Trade Legislation Passed in the Senate, a “fight against the radical agenda of President Obama and Democrats in Congress???”

    He still cannot justify his position on Cap and Trade using — facts. So, straight from the Dem/Clinton/Axelrod playbook: Kill The Messenger.

    Sadly, though, this back burner slide of Cap and Trade is going to provide cover for this idiot.

    YEA, JIM DEMINT! GO NIKKI HALEY!