bobbyw24
10-15-2009, 05:03 AM
Mark Tapscott: Lindsay Graham is the Senate's densest Republican
October 15, 2009
And the winner of this week's (ig)Noble Award for Densest Senate Republican is .... Lindsay Graham. He thinks he's brokering a bipartisan deal on cap and trade. What he's really doing is pulling the Democrats' fat out of the fire on global warming.
(For those who think Olympia Snowe is more deserving of the award, she came up short this week because, frankly, nobody was really surprised by her vote Tuesday for Obamacare on the Senate Finance Committee. Providing "bipartisan" cover for Democrats comes easy for her.)
Earlier this year, House Democrats approved a 1,400-plus page Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy bill that was then promptly pronounced all but dead on arrival in the Senate. Now along comes the South Carolina GOPer to save the Democrats' second biggest priority, next to socializing doctors and patients.
Graham will trade a hollow promise from Democrats of more nuclear power and off-shore oil and gas development in return for his support of Waxman-Markey. He forgets that Democrats can promise anything like that now without fear because they know Environmental Protection Agency and the Sierra Club will keep it from ever actually being done.
So Graham's reach for back pats from Barack Obama, John Kerry and the editors of the New York Times will help Democrats put their $700 billion cap-and-trade program on the books. But a new Institute for Energy Research study shows that, even if cap and trade doesn't gut American prosperity for generations to come, Waxman-Markey is full of other provisions that will.
Did you know for example, that under Waxman-Markey, your local utility company will soon have to get 20 percent of the electricity it sells to you from "renewable" energy sources like solar, bio-mass and wind? No sweat, you say?
Think again, Bunky, because it will be decades before we can generate a fifth
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Lindsay-Graham-is-the-Senate_s-densest-Republican-8384003-64235892.html
October 15, 2009
And the winner of this week's (ig)Noble Award for Densest Senate Republican is .... Lindsay Graham. He thinks he's brokering a bipartisan deal on cap and trade. What he's really doing is pulling the Democrats' fat out of the fire on global warming.
(For those who think Olympia Snowe is more deserving of the award, she came up short this week because, frankly, nobody was really surprised by her vote Tuesday for Obamacare on the Senate Finance Committee. Providing "bipartisan" cover for Democrats comes easy for her.)
Earlier this year, House Democrats approved a 1,400-plus page Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy bill that was then promptly pronounced all but dead on arrival in the Senate. Now along comes the South Carolina GOPer to save the Democrats' second biggest priority, next to socializing doctors and patients.
Graham will trade a hollow promise from Democrats of more nuclear power and off-shore oil and gas development in return for his support of Waxman-Markey. He forgets that Democrats can promise anything like that now without fear because they know Environmental Protection Agency and the Sierra Club will keep it from ever actually being done.
So Graham's reach for back pats from Barack Obama, John Kerry and the editors of the New York Times will help Democrats put their $700 billion cap-and-trade program on the books. But a new Institute for Energy Research study shows that, even if cap and trade doesn't gut American prosperity for generations to come, Waxman-Markey is full of other provisions that will.
Did you know for example, that under Waxman-Markey, your local utility company will soon have to get 20 percent of the electricity it sells to you from "renewable" energy sources like solar, bio-mass and wind? No sweat, you say?
Think again, Bunky, because it will be decades before we can generate a fifth
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Lindsay-Graham-is-the-Senate_s-densest-Republican-8384003-64235892.html