Comments on: Boxer Okays Senate Climate Bill, Without Amendments or GOP http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/11/05/boxer-okays-senate-climate-bill-without-amendments-or-gop/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ZA http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/11/05/boxer-okays-senate-climate-bill-without-amendments-or-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-88001 ZA Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:26:35 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=45131#comment-88001 Oh please, the theatrics are so obvious, I wish the electorate had a better sense of how they're being manipulated. In this 'nuclear option' all parties got exactly what they wanted. The Dems have their 'climate action' credentials for the next election. The White House has some kind of hand to play at Copenhagen. The GOP gets the 'victim card' for their next election. Continue on theater...but this audience member isn't applauding. Oh please, the theatrics are so obvious, I wish the electorate had a better sense of how they’re being manipulated. In this ‘nuclear option’ all parties got exactly what they wanted.

The Dems have their ‘climate action’ credentials for the next election.
The White House has some kind of hand to play at Copenhagen.
The GOP gets the ‘victim card’ for their next election.

Continue on theater…but this audience member isn’t applauding.

]]> By: Rmoen http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/11/05/boxer-okays-senate-climate-bill-without-amendments-or-gop/comment-page-1/#comment-87971 Rmoen Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:49:55 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=45131#comment-87971 From my vantage point, support for cap-and-trade has evaporated. Daily I read editorials, comments and letters-to-the-editor from all over the nation. When the House passed the cap-and-trade bill it was maybe 2-to-1 against cap-and-trade, opinion now is off the charts against it. This agrees with what I've read in the polls: 'attempting' to slow climate change is a low priority among Americans. Frankly, I don't see Americans supporting cap-and-trade or any CO2 regulation until we have our own 'Climate Truth Commission.' ...and no longer rely upon the climate opinions of the United Nations. The UN is a biased political organization whose climate forecasts haven't proven prescient. The United States needs our own objective, transparent climate commission to think-through global warming. -- Robert Moen, www.energyplanUSA From my vantage point, support for cap-and-trade has evaporated. Daily I read editorials, comments and letters-to-the-editor from all over the nation. When the House passed the cap-and-trade bill it was maybe 2-to-1 against cap-and-trade, opinion now is off the charts against it. This agrees with what I’ve read in the polls: ‘attempting’ to slow climate change is a low priority among Americans.

Frankly, I don’t see Americans supporting cap-and-trade or any CO2 regulation until we have our own ‘Climate Truth Commission.’ …and no longer rely upon the climate opinions of the United Nations. The UN is a biased political organization whose climate forecasts haven’t proven prescient. The United States needs our own objective, transparent climate commission to think-through global warming.

– Robert Moen, http://www.energyplanUSA

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