Senators look past Barbara Boxer's climate bill - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com

“It dooms that particular legislation. The question is what comes next,” said Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski. “We will see what Plan B is.”
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But the tripartisan trio faces a significant challenge to persuade southern, rural and Rust Belt Democrats to support the bill. In a Thursday afternoon meeting of moderate Democrats, several argued that the Senate should focus on spurring green-job creation instead of tackling cap and trade in the next few months.
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“I think the bill could have been improved substantially,” said Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who voted for the bill but objected to his inability to offer amendments that would help protect his state’s coal and steel interests.

Intrade betting: A cap and trade system for emissions trading to be established in the United States in 2009?

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Gamecock Gamesmanship, Uncloaked - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Sen. Graham doesn't even seem to know what this loosey-goosey "framework" is, gushing as he does in the New York Times with Sen., Kerry about a critical component of it being something that sounds like cap-and-trade — then having his Washington and South Carolina staffs, as well as outside consultants tell voters and the media that he doesn't support cap-and-trade, and never will.

More On Lindsey Graham’s Left-Leaning Bedfellows :: FITSNews

As reported on FITS last week, the pro-Graham radio and television ads were originally scheduled to be paid for by a group known as the “Truman National Security Project.”

Once our investigation began to expose this organization as nothing but a liberal front group, however, Team Lindsey quickly switched gears. In fact, they began scurrying frantically to switch the ad’s sponsors, even though a few radio ads bearing the name of the group had already started running.

C3: How To Shave 1°F Off Global Warming: Simple, Eliminate All Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions For 31 Years Straight - The Idiocracy of Elites

Literally, what the political and MSM elite idiocracy are claiming needs to be done immediately to "save" the polar bears will completely destroy civilization. To reach zero CO2 human emissions, means no coal, no natural gas, no oil and no human fires.