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2009-09-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Bobby 2009-09-28 08:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Congressional Dems seem to be in a sucide pact with Obama.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-09-28 11:33|| 2009-09-28 11:33|| Front Page Top

#2 What? You mean they're gonna shut their mouths?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-09-28 11:36|| 2009-09-28 11:36|| Front Page Top

#3 They should stick a DC plug up their poop chutes...

Posted by crazyhorse 2009-09-28 12:33|| 2009-09-28 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't know which is worse the EPA or Congress.

Posted by bman">bman 2009-09-28 13:05|| 2009-09-28 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 they can buy priuses to use instead of their business jets.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-09-28 14:30|| 2009-09-28 14:30|| Front Page Top

#6 When I read the title I thought that it was about frijoles (aka beans) would be banned from Senate's canteens.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2009-09-28 14:35|| 2009-09-28 14:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Kerry wants to change the Cap and Tax Bill name

Kerry last week sought to change the vernacular surrounding the climate bill and sell its concepts more broadly, insisting it is not a "cap and trade" proposal but a "pollution reduction" bill. "I don't know what 'cap and trade' means. I don't think the average American does," Kerry said. "This is not a cap-and-trade bill, it's a pollution reduction bill" (E&E Daily, Sept. 25).

But a leading GOP opponent to the Senate climate effort quickly pushed back on the Democrat's strategy.

"No matter the semantic games employed, or the extent to which Democrats wish to hide the truth from the American people, cap and trade will mean more job losses, more pain at the pump, and higher food and electricity prices for consumers," said EPW Committee ranking member James Inhofe (R-Okla.)."

Both Brown and Stabenow said they would welcome the release of the Senate bill even though it will give critics something tangible to target.

"It always does," Brown said. "There is always something to shoot at. But I think it is the right step, and then we start working to improve it."

Senate Democratic leaders, including Reid and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), have said that they do not know if there will be enough time to get to the climate bill on the floor this year. But Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the lead authors of the House bill, said that he is not giving up yet.

"At this stage in the House no one was predicting we could be successful," Markey told reporters. The lawmaker said he expected the Senate to closely follow the House bill's outlines, especially "once people sit down and begin to understand we have dealt with the major interests in the country.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-09-28 15:15|| 2009-09-28 15:15|| Front Page Top

#8 ...WITH THEIR MINDS!

Posted by mojo 2009-09-28 17:49|| 2009-09-28 17:49|| Front Page Top

#9
Yamal: A "Divergence" Problem

Taxing a positive externality (plat-food production) = disaster.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-09-28 18:28|| 2009-09-28 18:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Won't they turn blue?

Posted by DMFD 2009-09-28 19:14|| 2009-09-28 19:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Darn, I was hoping they would render themselves carbon neutral.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-09-28 22:05|| 2009-09-28 22:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Uh, uh, BLUE VELVET - you all know whom, and you know what device I'm trying hard NOT to describe???

Sexy slinky ISABELLA ROSSELLINI notwithstanding.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-09-28 23:50|| na]">[na] 2009-09-28 23:50|| Front Page Top

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