YouTube - Dorgan: Let's Deal With The Climate Later

9/15/09: Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) reiterates his opposition to the creation of a carbon market with a cap-and-trade system to limit global warming pollution. Arguing the Senate Energy Committee energy legislation "takes significant steps towards addressing climate ," Dorgan calls for its passage "and then at some point later bringing a climate change bill to the floor."
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[Dorgan] Let me just say that while I have said I do not intend to be supportive of the cap-and-trade approach, especially with quotes around trade, I think there are some things we can, will, and must do to address the issue of climate change and having a lower carbon future.

Brian Fallow : Carbon bill time bomb for taxpayers - Business - NZ Herald News

The bottom line? It is hard to quarrel with Greenpeace's Geoff Keey: "We now have on the table a pathetic ETS which won't actually do anything to reduce emissions. Our emissions will just keep climbing and taxpayers, rather than polluters, will have to pay for them."

Cap and trade's price tag - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

The NRCC is already touting the memo as the stuff of 2010 campaign ads, and it does underscore how difficult the politics of the environment and energy become when legislators realize they have a cost. House members cajoled into a vote for legislation that now seems to be losing traction in the Senate may be a bit sore about it.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Rasmussen: ObamaCare more unpopular than ever

If anyone wonders why the ObamaCare proposals have run into so much firm opposition, one only needs to look to this argument. Democrats can’t understand why Americans don’t want government in charge of the most personal decisions in our lives, and therefore assume we’re all just a bunch of racists. This argument fails to explain why the same idea was just as unpopular 16 years ago when the Clintons tried forcing it on the US. More to the point, it insults the very people Democrats hope to convince.