Senate Climate Bill Produces Little But Partisan Heat - Scitizen

While such legislative "theatrics," as Rhode Island Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse characterized the Republican boycott, are nothing new, some warn that the EPW committee is marching into "seldom seen" territory in the fight over climate legislation.
According the Energy & Environment News, a former Democratic Senate staffer said that ramming through the markup process may not be the wisest move and is likely to turn off swing-vote Senators. "That product is toxic," said the former stagger. "It's basically worthless."

Senator Baucus says opposes Kerry-Boxer climate bill | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Max Baucus, an influential moderate Democrat, announced his opposition on Thursday to a climate change bill crafted by fellow Democrats John Kerry and Barbara Boxer.

I’m agnostic on global warming, but carbon trading is not the answer to our prayers – Telegraph Blogs

Commissioner Bart Chilton observed recently: “We don’t want to see the largest commodity markets in the world–these Green CAT Markets–become a private jungle gym for speculators and fraudsters.”

Indeed we don’t. Yet we are creating huge, highly complex, artificial markets which will be far more difficult to regulate, in my view, than a straightforward product like, say, subprime mortgages.