Good news, bad news on Cap & Trade:
Climate change legislation appears dead after two setbacks in quick succession — first from the Oval Office and then from Congress.
Sen. Scott Brown (Mass.), a crucial Republican swing vote, met with President Barack Obama on Wednesday and told him he would not support a cap-and-trade plan or carbon fee to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
But this blow came after Obama delivered the first setback Tuesday night. In his primetimes [sic] speech, he called for comprehensive energy reform but did not propose an emissions cap.
I wasn’t aware he was expected to propose it Tuesday night. Did he propose it today? Is that another setback, then?
Now the bad news:
Just when you thought Democrats had hit bottom: they plan on passing Cap-and-Trade Energy Tax during… wait for it… the Lame-Duck Session.
Runner-up headline: Democrats show their respect for the people.
That’s Doug Ross, who links Jim Geraghty:
Phil Schiliro, the White House congressional liaison, has told the Senate to aim to take up an energy bill the week of July 12, after the July 4 break …The plan is to conference the new Senate bill with the already-passed House bill IN A LAME-DUCK SESSION AFTER THE ELECTION, so House members don’t have to take another tough vote ahead of midterms.
Any Democrat who uses a lame-duck session to advance Obama’s radical agenda is the lowest of the low. Anyone who does so is metaphorically urinating on the concept of representative government.
If I had a mean streak, I’d suggest that such an individual be roasted on an open spit. But Eric Holder informs me that such an action is against the law, except if performed by the New Black Panther Party.
He has other suggestions, too.
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