Apparently Republicans had some of these sent up from Florida. Note, however, at the end of my post, who expressed support for this bill.
Senate climate bill blocked
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a global warming bill that would have required major reductions in greenhouse gases, after a bitter debate over its economic costs and whether it would substantially raise gasoline and other energy prices.
Democratic leaders fell a dozen votes short of getting the 60 needed to end a Republican filibuster on the measure and bring the bill up for a vote. The 48-36 vote failed to reach even a majority, a disappointment to the bill’s supporters.
“It’s a huge tax increase,” argued Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a prominent coal-producing state. He maintained that the proposed system of allowing widespread trading of carbon emissions allowances would produce “the largest restructuring of the American economy since the New Deal.” […]
Both presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, were absent, although supporters of the bill said they had sent letters advising they would have voted for the bill.
So here is the lower taxes, cut-spending ‘conservative’ Republican taking exactly the same position as the bitter, clinging Marxist on a bill which would have created Soviet-style government control in business. All in homage to a liberal hoax. Great job GOP!
It’s nice to know that I won’t be taxed for solar cycles. For now anyway.
Tammy,
As a stone cold sober independent conservative who has been greatly amused by the elite Leftist media’s intoxication with Obama, replete with sloppy open-mouthed kisses and slurred “I love you, man’sâ€, I appreciate your daily doses of black coffee served up to the besotted Fourth Estate. Unfortunately, however, you also have been shoving my head under the cold shower of reality when it comes to McCain’s seemingly complete aversion to even the most basic principles of conservatism.
What is a teetotaling taxpayer to do on election day since abstinence clearly does not make the heart grow fonder. I guess I’ll just have to say sayonara to sobriety and hold my nose as I slam down shot after shot of Mr. Booze in order to render the least liberal senator attractive enough to take home for the next four friggin’ years.
While this was a victory for the GOP,I’m looking ahead to 2009. I believe that’s the year when the Dems will finally achieve a working majority of 60 in both houses. When that happens,it will be next to impossible to stop these crazy bills from becoming law.
Democrats have long opposed use of fossil fuels, which is why they oppose drilling for more oil and gas in the USA. The alternative fuel schemes will all cost more than fossil fuels do at the moment. An abrupt switch to alternate fuels will create millions of new victims in America, who presumably will vote Democrat.
The politicians did not address the issue of whether or not catastrophic global warming is actually a threat, or whether or not warming in the Northern Hemisphere in the late twentieth century was caused by soot generated in China and India rather than CO2 emissions. The catastrophic global warming hypothesis is based on the logical seeming assumption that as air temperature goes up due to an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere, that the concentration of the greehouse gas water vapor will in turn go up a lot since the amount water vapor air can hold goes up exponentially with temperature. (The Global Circulation Models are unable to accurately compute the absorption of water vapor into the atmosphere, or generation of clouds, so assumptions are made.)
It turns out that this fundamental assumption may not be correct. The Aqua satellite data is showing that the concentration of water vapor in the air is not increasing as projected. This calls into question the entire catastrophic AGW hypothesis. Why dosen’t Congress investigate this before enacting draconian legislation that will damage the standard of living in the USA.