With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?…
Details of the compromise are still emerging, but already the chief sponsors of the measure — Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) — have been forced to lower carbon-reduction targets, cut renewable fuel standards and dole out billions of dollars in benefits to the nation’s largest polluting industries. Many environmentalists say the compromise comes at the too-high cost of undermining the bill’s very purpose, which is to slash emissions dramatically enough to prevent a warming planet from heating further. Some are asking Democrats either to bolster the environmental protections or to scrap the proposal altogether.
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the concessions from Waxman and Markey to this point have been made to satisfy Democrats representing regions heavy with coal, oil and automaker interests.
Details on some of those “compromises” follow, along with a reminder that it’ll get even worse once the Republicans get to water down the legislation further still…
Additionally, although President Barack Obama had campaigned on a platform of selling 100 percent of so-called pollution permits to industry — a strategy he said would generate $646 billion to fight global warming over the next decade — the House compromise gives all but 15 percent of those permits away for free.
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The compromise also waters down the so-called cash-for-clunkers program, which ostensibly encourages drivers to turn in their gas guzzlers in exchange for a federal subsidy on more fuel efficient models. Yet under the compromise proposal, the new fuel efficiencies are hardly dramatic. For example, drivers trading in trucks between 6,000 and 8,500 pounds would be eligible for a $3,500 voucher for purchasing the same-sized vehicle that’s more efficient by just 1 mile per gallon.
And one more point worth noting…
ILLUMINI REPUBLITHUGS = ILLUMINATI DEMOCRAPPERS.
THE STENCH OF THE NEW WORLD ODOR CRIMINALS IS UNBEARABLE. THANK YOU FOR PRINTING THE TRUTH.
Without exaggeration or hysteria these “Neo-Dems” are working hard to kill off all of our descendants in return for the chance to fill the power vacuum left by the GOP collapse and a quick fix of cash from Big Carbon.
Less depressing news from CA, although it does mean that another rigged election is inbound:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gaymarriage16-2008may16,0,6182317.story?page=1
You do realize that was from May 16 of LAST YEAR, right, Zap?
Though we can hope that it will be again this year….
… oooooops… I mean… I meant to do that! 🙂
Ahh, the Pseudocrats.
They do not care about us.
We must never be fooled into thinking that they actually care about anyone but themselves.
Ever.
The short-sighted, greedy, braying asses.
I am very sorry to say I HAVE HAD IT WITH OBAMA AND I WILL NEVER VOTE DEMOCRAT AGAIN. I feel like we are being raped by a beloved person of trust. He is a Trojan horse.
No, no, Democraydiva, not a Trojan horse. He’s just a fantastically charming guy who hasn’t ever really had to adhere closely to his own standards to be extremely successful. I think he had to make a lot of bad concessions to get the nomination and he was left with such a literally earth-shattering mess that he’s too overwhelmed to stand against the entrenched interests. He doesn’t have the nerve to play hardball with those in his own party who don’t have the energy to stand against them either. Or with the big money interests who never make it safe or easy for whoever is in office.
He should be in there cracking the whip, or having his famous enforcer Rahmbo doing it for him, so this wouldn’t be happening or not so much.
Once he got elected, I think he realized the mess was so bad there was no time to fill the administration with new blood, and I’m sure Hillary would not have stood down if he did not agree to take most of her people. So we sort of ended up with a more smooth-talking version of Hillary than a strong version of who Obama only thought he was. So he’s probably having a heck of a time getting those Hillary people to execute an Obama presidency. That’s a big problem, but not beyond solving.
I’m mad enough to strangle him with my bare hands, but there are those who say it is not too late for him to wake up from this failure of nerve and start making things happen. I hope they’re right. Because voting Republican, or Green, or Libertarian, or whatever, isn’t going to get it done either.
And so HOPE DIES, not just for democratic voters but for future generations.
Greed is NOT good, especially when it costs us the world.
The curtains are being pulled aside to expose the hollow wizard-of-words…. but it looks as if he is not as beneficent as portrayed in the movies.
Brace yourselves for severe weather of all kinds.
They won’t get the job done unless and until we make them get it done.
They are politicians. Period. Politicians do whatever they have to do to get in power or stay in power.
Obama is the same. He is a Democratic politician. He has his good points (yes, he does), and his bad points.
He’s no worst than most, probably better than some. Any presidents out there who actually made good on the better part of their campaign promises? Obama inherited a bloody royal mess, and he’s taking the very cautious middle road, not being the bold agent of change he made himself out to be. On the “good” side, it seems that he’s slowing down the rate of worsening. That’s something, but obviously not nearly enough. Whether anyone else could do better, I don’t know.
Not that I agree with the “science” of global warming, cause it’s mostly political (consensus is a political term not a scientific one), but
When are people going to realize that multi-trillion dollar interests are not just going to roll over every four years while a president who doesn’t have their interests at heart might get elected? What they do is get “their candidate” or a candidate and cabinet that’s sympathetic to their needs and “get him elected” and sell him to the people as if he is the people’s candidate.
We’re going to compromise ourselves right into extinction, first as a nation, then as a species.
#9 very well said, poetic even. I strongly believe that greed is basically the root cause for just about everything that’s wrong with our country.
Like most of you here I’m yet another disillusioned, disheartened democratic voter. We were sold ‘hope’ and ‘change’ and got neither. What makes it so tragic is that we sufferred so long under Bush- watched as he stole two elections, start two wars, turn the world against us, torture, lie, and steal, bumbling and mumbling along all the while as the moron-in-chief that he is; so finally, after that long eight years of daily outrage, we get our guy in the White House, along with Democratic majorities in Congress… only to find out we’ve been bamboozled by our own party, our own hero, and that the Wall Street/K Street corporate interest nexus really DOES run our country, Republicans still control the message and the debate, still seem to get everything they want, and get to whine about being victims of Socialist-Democrats at the same time, and it makes me ill, it makes me sad, and it makes me wonder if I’ll ever get my country back, if we’ll ever see justice, if we’ll ever see an end to the war on everything we seem to be engaged in, except the only war we should be waging- the war on climate change which threatens us all.