Obama Urges Passage of Climate [Hoax] Bill - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

He said the bill will be paid for by utilities and other industries that produce the bulk of climate-altering emissions and will help position the country as a global leader in clean energy technology. “And that is why I urge members of the House to come together to pass it.”

Cap and trade mercy killing? | Washington Examiner

While her admirers say that the reason the speaker kicked the bill out of committee for a sudden vote by the full House is because she believes she can get the job done, it's at least as likely that Pelosi knows she can't.
Leaving the bill in the hands of skeptical and regionally motivated committee chairmen and subject to special interest lobbying, Pelosi was losing control of the bill. Worse than having the Waxman-Markey bill defeated would be having it pass in some form that is really more of a subsidy to carbon emitters than a crackdown.
Lobbyists were helping to create a Frankenstein bill that might have eventually passed but been an obstacle to the kind of hard-line approach that Pelosi and others would like.
By bringing the bill out for a vote this week, it will almost certainly fail in the House. If, by some miracle it does get out of the House, the Senate would smite any bill that amounts to a tax or hurts manufacturing states.
Especially if they were able to drag the bill into 2010, opponents could even force a painful election-year vote that could damage some vulnerable Democrats.