Mark Kirk catches heat for cap-and-trade vote - Josh Kraushaar - POLITICO.com

As he campaigns for the Senate in Illinois, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) — one of eight House Republicans to support cap-and-trade energy legislation — is doing some serious backtracking from his vote last month.

Kirk immediately drew flak from the state’s Republican base about the vote, which nearly prompted a primary challenge from his own state party chairman, Andy McKenna.
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Kirk needs to win over downstate Republicans, who are largely unfamiliar with his record in Congress — and supporting cap and trade isn’t a way to win them over. The southern part of the state is home to vast coal deposits — and the legislation is viewed skeptically by many downstate voters.

Melting Waxman by Jim Geraghty on National Review Online

Then Rep. Charlie Melancon (D., La.), co-chair of the Blue Dog Coalition, emerged from negotiations declaring that Waxman had “lied to” him and his allies; Melancon also accused the chairman of deciding to “sever discussions with the Blue Dogs who are trying to make this bill work for America.” The fury of the seven Blue Dogs on the committee suggested that a permanent wedge had been driven between the panel’s Democrats.

The development left Republican congressional staff stunned. “We were really surprised by the tone,” said one GOP staffer following the health-care debate closely. “I’ve been up on Capitol Hill for a number of years now, and I’ve never seen a member come out and say that a chairman of his own party has lied to him. . . . Maybe he’s getting a lot of backlash in his district about the cap-and-trade bill.”

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