Bipartisan Lindsey Graham
[Guest post by DRJ]
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has a new admirer:
“The president knew he would be causing trouble but he just couldn’t resist praising Sen. Lindsey Graham’s tripartisan initiative on climate change legislation with Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
“It probably doesn’t help him for me to compliment him,” the president joked, to appreciative laughter, as he went ahead and complimented Graham, a South Carolina Republican, before a meeting of Democratic senators today.”
The compromise requires that conservatives “go along with greenhouse gas reductions if liberals accept more domestic energy development.” Not only are the whys and hows of limiting greenhouse gases unclear, but I doubt the compromise includes waiving or restricting EPA and other regulations that will hold up nuclear and oil and gas development.
Thus, Graham defects from his Party because he’s desperate to make Congress relevant and offers to support the President on an issue of unproven science. No wonder the President likes Graham’s offer. It’s priceless.
— DRJ
Why do people like Graham think that this compromise is good? Is it good for the U.S. to raise the cost of energy by limiting Co2? If it is then getting more domestic drilling is irrelevant.
And if domestic energy production is good, then limiting carbon is irrelevant. Both of these goals should be determined on their own.
Someone should tell Graham that there are these e-mails from East Anglia U in England before he cripples the economy even worse than Obamacare would. We can wave goodbye to all those jobs fleeing to India and China.
MU789 (514c52) — 2/3/2010 @ 8:19 pmLindsey is a poofter
JD (de0c49) — 2/3/2010 @ 8:23 pmthis is the kind of vague lazy compromising that they teach kids in public school is what great leaders do.
Sad. We’ve set our system up so that people like Graham are always the most powerful ones.
If I could make just one reform to our government, it would be that every discreet issue had to be voted on separately. I don’t even care that it’s cripplingly cumbersome. Let them vote be remote in their office or something.
but these compromises are unhelpful from both points of view. If the world is really going to end because of domestic energy production, this is stupid. If global warming is not directly related to domestic energy production, this is stupid. But it’s a compromise. DC working together. bla bla bla
Dustin (b54cdc) — 2/3/2010 @ 8:40 pmSquish.
daleyrocks (718861) — 2/3/2010 @ 9:04 pmisn’t he though? A jaw-droppingly stupid poofter.
happyfeet (713679) — 2/3/2010 @ 9:20 pmJuan McCain has taught his little lap dog well. Lindsey (he never stood a chance with that moniker) will continue to ‘reach across the aisle’ just like his mentor to the detriment of the Republican Party. He has been censured twice, I believe, by local party bigwigs, so his days in power are likely numbered.
Gazzer (583345) — 2/3/2010 @ 9:34 pm“Tripartisan”? Don’t think I’ve ever run into that word before. I wonder who the third political party is to which they refer? (Communists?)
Steven Den Beste (99cfa1) — 2/3/2010 @ 9:37 pm“Reaching across’ or “reaching around”…it’s all in a day’s work for LG.
Gazzer (583345) — 2/3/2010 @ 9:51 pmtri-partisan refers to the lie that Lieberman is anything other than the Demonrat he’s always been.
the only reason for a Republican to reach across the aisle is to knock some sense into a lieberal, but first they should do that with the RINO’s on their side.
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 2/3/2010 @ 10:01 pmSDB, it’s because Joe is an Independent.
Gazzer (583345) — 2/3/2010 @ 10:06 pmSteven Den Beste,
Thanks for pointing that out. It is novel, isn’t it? In fact, I meant to title this “Tripartisan Lindsey Graham” but then I forgot. Oh, well …
DRJ (84a0c3) — 2/3/2010 @ 10:19 pmNo Oil For Trees!
AD - RtR/OS! (b1d1f9) — 2/3/2010 @ 10:49 pmGood one, AD.
DRJ (84a0c3) — 2/3/2010 @ 11:12 pmThis little McCainite is one of my senators.
I am sorry and hereby pledge to never vote for
him again.
Further, I pledge to actively work for his opponent during the next election.
Krusher (ceb4ea) — 2/4/2010 @ 2:44 amJD, I must denounce you for pointing out Mr. Graham’s violations of Faculty Rules 1, 3, 5, and 7.
(I would also say there is a violation of Rule 6, but there is NOOOOOO…..Rule 6.)
Jeff Lebowski (5f8f0d) — 2/4/2010 @ 5:23 amI hope Kirk wins so he can repudiate his earlier vote on that abomination. He’s about 20 points ahead of his corrupt and slimey opponent (yeah, I know that’s redundant here in IL, but still), and the primaries were held just yesterday. He better keep his promise, that’s all I can say.
Dmac (539341) — 2/4/2010 @ 5:52 am““Tripartisan”? Don’t think I’ve ever run into that word before. I wonder who the third political party is to which they refer? (Communists?)”
The Connecticut for Lieberman party.
imdw (de7003) — 2/4/2010 @ 6:40 amI say make Linsay Gramnesty relevant by making him unemployed!
PCD (1d8b6d) — 2/4/2010 @ 6:45 amThe edifice of global warming hype continues to collapse and clueless Lindsey Graham insists on staying in the building.
A new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory drives another nail in the coffin of the CO2-is-melting-Himalayan-glaciers canard. (H/t to Watts Up With That?)
The fact that glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are thinning is not disputed. However, few researchers have attempted to rigorously examine and quantify the causes. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Surabi Menon set out to isolate the impacts of the most commonly blamed culprit—greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide—from other particles in the air that may be causing the melting. Menon and her collaborators found that airborne black carbon aerosols, or soot, from India is a major contributor to the decline in snow and ice cover on the glaciers.
“Our simulations showed greenhouse gases alone are not nearly enough to be responsible for the snow melt,” says Menon, a physicist and staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division. “Most of the change in snow and ice cover—about 90 percent—is from aerosols. Black carbon alone contributes at least 30 percent of this sum.”
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (9eb641) — 2/4/2010 @ 7:49 ambreaking news:
An initiative to suspend the California Global Warming Solutions Act is collecting signatures to be on the November ballot. (link)
This is not a drill.
We will finally get to put Al Gore’s boondoggle out of it’s misery once and for all.
All we need are 433,970 voters to sign it.
papertiger (8349ff) — 2/4/2010 @ 8:19 pm