jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-27-09 08:36 AM
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Senate "Moderate" Dems to W.H.: Drop cap-and-trade (Politico)
Senate Dems to W.H.: Drop cap-and-trade
Bruised by the health care debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill next year.
“I am communicating that in every way I know how,†says Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of at least half a dozen Democrats who've told the White House or their own leaders that it's time to jettison the centerpiece of their party's plan to curb global warming.
The creation of an economy-wide market for greenhouse gas emissions is as the heart of the climate bill that cleared the House earlier this year. But with the health care fight still raging and the economy still hurting, moderate Democrats have little appetite for another sweeping initiative — especially another one likely to pass with little or no Republican support.
“We need to deal with the phenomena of global warming, but I think it’s very difficult in the kind of economic circumstances we have right now,†said Indiana Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh, who called passage of any economy-wide cap and trade “unlikely.�
At a meeting about health care last month, moderates pushed to table climate legislation in favor of a jobs bill that would be an easier sell during the 2010 elections, according to Senate Democratic aides.
“I’d just as soon see that set aside until we work through the economy,†said Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.). ?“What we don’t want to do is have anything get in the way of working to resolve the problems with the economy.â€
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30984.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x97318hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-27-09 08:41 AM
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1. They're anything but "Moderate"
Moderate in comparison to the lunatic fringe maybe, but not moderate otherwise. What they are is DINOs
So they ARE moderate in regards to DU.
TheBigotBasher (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-27-09 07:59 PM
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33. They are a militant GOP tendency.
A Party within a Party, determined to destroy the agenda that they and every Democratic candidate stood on in 2008.
Not too many DimRats campaigned on killing the US economy. That is just waht Cap and Tax would do.
sandnsea (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-27-09 08:44 AM
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2. Well that didn't take long
Until we educate the people in those states, we will have problems with whoever is elected from those states.
People in California, New York, and a few other blue states are to far gone.
flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-27-09 08:44 AM
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3. Why is it always the same Corporadems who line up with the special interests and the Republicans?
Why is it the same socialist liberals that line up against America?
The DUmmies constantly show why they are the lunatic fringe and why they don't matter.
They bitch about companies moving factories and jobs overseas, but they are too damn stupid to realize that it is DimRats policies that drive them out of the US.
