Inhofe: Dems Should Celebrate Now Because Cap and Trade is Dead in the Senate
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on Jun 26 2009 Filed under Politics.
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Pelosi and Barack can do-si-do all night long over the House’s passage of the Knee-Cap and Trade bill. But Sen. Jim Inhofe (R. Ok) says the party is over when it gets to the Senate.
From this morning’s Countywide News.
Passing President Obama’s “cap and trade” energy program would cost the average Oklahoma family $3,200 a year, Sen. Jim Inhofe said Friday, but he’s confident the measure will be killed in the Senate no matter what happens in the House of Representatives.
The Tulsa Republican, a longtime critic of what he considers “this hoax called global warming,” made his latest statements during a morning stop in Shawnee while House members in Washington were preparing to vote on the controversial issue.
“Between the years of 1998 and 2005, I was the only member of the United States Senate who would take on what I call ‘the Hollywood elitists’ and the United Nations on this hoax called global warming and I went through seven years of purgatory on that issue.
“But now I’ve been redeemed and the vast majority of the scientific community has now said Inhofe’s right and the United Nations is wrong and those individuals … have now said ‘no, the science is not there and these are natural cycles.”
At the time of the interview Friday morning, he said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was only two votes short of winning and predicted that if she brought the question up for a vote, it would indicate she had found them.
“It doesn’t matter,” he declared flatly, “because we’ll kill it in the Senate anyway.”
Asked if he was confident that would be the case, Oklahoma’s senior senator said he was “absolutely certain.” He noted that it would take 60 votes to break an anticipated Republican filibuster over cap and trade and predicted the most the Democrats can muster is about 34.
Sometimes in America preserving the country from utter devastation literally comes down to a handful of patriotic Americans, and if Inhofe is right, millions of us will be watching for the GOP to be those Americans who stand on the tracks and face down this Global Warming freight train speeding out of the House of Representatives.
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Bless that man, he does not always come through for us – but when he does, its nice to know he is there. Frankly, Cantor should have done a better job whipping the Republicans today and letting 8 sheep wander off like that is a little odd. Where is that Stimulus leadership?
Arizona Looks to Outlaw Global Warming Legislation
http://www.dailytech.com/Arizona+Looks+to+Outlaw+Global+Warming+Legislation/article15523.htm
Arizona is now close to becoming the first state to outlaw climate change legislation. The state Senate voted Monday, 19-10 to approve a bill banning the Department of Environmental Quality from enacting or enforcing measures with language pertaining to climate change. The bill is now awaiting House approval.
The bill will likely pass and be signed into law thanks to a switch in power. Formerly, Janet Napolitano (D) was governor of the state, but she left to join Barack Obama’s Cabinet. Napolitano was replaced by Jan Brewer (R), who has not indicated a strong desire to support AGW theorists.
If Senate Bill 1147 passes it will block rules passed by the DEQ that set harsher emission standards. The proposed increases were hastily pushed through by the former governor, despite complaints from industry leaders. It would also end work on “cap and trade” carbon legislation, which has been opposed by the utility industry. Such a scheme could help to raise power prices for the state’s citizens significantly.
Well, here’s a new wrinkle to consider…
http://enews.core-online.us/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100041936.15518.285&gen=1
While CORE isn’t in the same league as the NAA[L]CP, they’re hardly nobodies.
The harsh truth is that this bill will make life much worse the ‘poor’, lower middle class, and the ‘politically unprotected’ [the non-'unionists', and any 'group' that hasn't ponied up protection money [re-donations]]. Granted, the dems typical response to this issue will be offerings of ‘subsidies’ [our taxed incomes] to forestall the reality of a ‘green’ economic landscape; ‘sustainability’ sounds nice until you’re living in the middle of it.
So, since all the ‘smart’ pundits natter on about ‘big tentism’, here’s a point of commonality: economic [non] opportunity. I can think of worse starting points.
Now all we to do is find Michael Steele and point him the right direction; this is his ‘fish or cut bait’ moment. And while we’re at it, I’d be encouraging Ken Blackwell to step up as well; nothing like a little competition to get somebody to produce their ‘A game’, if it’s in them.