Open Left

good to see you here

I appreciate Friends of the Earth's willingness to speak truth to power on the problems with Waxman-Markey.

I support efforts to improve the bill in the Senate, but it seems hard to imagine anything better than the status quo getting 60 votes. Already a group of fake Senate "centrists" are talking about making the bill worse.

Also, an improved version of this bill would probably fail when it returns to the House. Collin Peterson said recently that he would have voted no on Waxman-Markey if that had been the final vote to send the bill to the president. He voted yes to allow it to go forward on the assumption that the Senate would further water down this bill.

From my perspective, a progressive block in the Senate is valuable in case we need to kill a bill that would be worse than the status quo. However, I don't see that a decent bill on climate change has any chance of getting to Obama's desk.

Join the Iowa progressive community at Bleeding Heartland.

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by: desmoinesdem @ Sat Jul 11, 2009 at 11:10:34 AM CDT