Obama, Democrats Suffer Major Defeat As Cap-And-Trade Fast Track Gets Axed

• April 2, 2009

Obama and certain Senate allies like Senator Kent Conrad have been working behind the scenes in Washington DC to set up a “fast track” process to ram-rod massive, sweeping policy changes like cap and trade and nationalized health care through the Senate by inserting it into the budget reconciliation process and by-passing the filibuster. Now it appears as though those efforts have, rightfully, been defeated.
It’s a major blow for the Obama administration, but you won’t learn about it unless you read into the middle of this article, the overall tone of which makes it sound as if the tactic is still very much alive.

The GOP did have a victory Wednesday night when the Senate overwhelmingly voted 67-31 in favor of an amendment that would prohibit using the fast-track procedure to pass Obama’s “cap-and-trade” plan to combat global warming. …
All Republicans and 26 Democrats voted for the amendment, which Republican Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska offered.

Granted, the potential use of this “cheat” is still alive for Obama’s designs on our health care system, but there’s no reason to believe that policy won’t go down under the same sort of vote as his cap and trade just did.
Obama tried to pull a fast one on cap and trade, and Republicans didn’t let him get away with it. That’d be reported as a defeat if Bush were still President. But since it’s Obama, he’s held to different standards by the adoring press.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics, The Loony Left

http://Array Mickey

This is fantastic news! It was looking like the AGW climate-hysterics might succeed in attaching their stealth national sales tax scheme to the budget resolution by employing the Senate reconciliation process.

Thank fully there were two dozen Democrats who had a moment of clarity and the integrity to recognize the madness of raising every American’s energy costs by thousands of dollars annually in a futile and meaningless attempt to diminish atmospheric levels of CO2.

Fortunately for all of us this cap-and-trade con-job is officially dead for now. This is one major battle we are very fortunate that Obama lost. There may be HOPE afterall.

Fantastic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus Last Best Hope

50% of our nations electric power is from coal….CAP & TRADE aims it’s bullets right at COAL

if the dems get their way, your light bill goes up….WAY UP.

All based on the farce of global warming…..or on the unspoken agenda of bringing our people to their knees as our energy needs would be held at the whim of the Dems, to use as leverage in all future elections.
http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

If it’s still in play, it’s still a huge danger to our way off life!

Brow-Beat your “Representatives”!!!! (I use that term loosely..)
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Rob people don’t want Cap and Trade it will kill the small business and industry and the moron’s on the left don’t get it. Just ask some of the those blue dog and reagan democrats they are going to get creamed in the next election if the country keep marching towards this marxist state the democrats are trying to ram down out throats.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

If the libtard trolls around here think those 26 Dems are merely bribed turncoats, you’re right: they were bribed by their own take on the future at the polls come the next elections for them. Given the choice between backing Obama and backing themselves, the Dems in congress are not picking the new messiah and the country is not jonesing for leftism like BO is selling and never ever have.

My hope for the human spirit is a bit warmer and brighter today.
reality check

You guys do realize that Reagan and both Bush’s were for cap and trade. the only reason conservatives are against it is becuase they are against everything that Obama tries to do. This partisanship is tearing the nation apart

Anonymous

Your information is incorrect. Cap and trade is completely based on global warming mythology, which is why all real Americans oppose it. It’s just more centralized govt control, which is vastly inferior to our free enterprise system.
http://flamemeister.com flamemeister

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The references please.

reality check

http://climateprogress.org/2011/04/21/cap-and-trade-doomed/
Here is one source. This page leans way left, but the info is all sourced.
And real Americans are on both the left and the right. Being in denial does not make you patriotic my friend. This is from a non-partisen scientist.

Anonymous

Real Americans are those who embrace American values and who want to be governed according to our Constitution. By and large, the Dems have bought into Marxist class struggle and income redistribution, which aren’t American values.
I notice your “source” for the lies about Presidents Reagan and Bush is a warmist site. Again, global warming is mythology, and the only reason for cap and trade is that mythology, otherwise “carbon emissions” are not an issue.

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