Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf of Mexico Dumping Millions of Gallons of Oil into the Ocean
Last year, the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill on June 26. The Senate is supposed to unveil the Kerry-Boxer climate bill on Wednesday. To those on the left, the Kerry-Boxer bill is a give away to the fossil fuel industry. To those on the right, it’s another example of the fascist-commie-leftist plot to take over everything.
So what are the odds that a bill will make it through the Senate?
If you ask Competitive Enterprise’s Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell, he’ll tell you that “the chance that the Senate will pass a comprehensive energy-rationing (a.k.a climate) bill this year remains close to zero. BP’s big oil spill in the Gulf changes very little.”
Rachel Maddow
Today, Rachel Maddow called out Republicans for their lies about reconciliation.
Republican senators are calling reconciliation the “nuclear option.” That’s not at all true. The nuclear option was a threat by Republicans to ban filibusters over judicial nominations in 2005.
The fact is that Republicans have used reconciliation 16 times out of the 22 times it’s been used. They’re on the record supporting the use of reconciliation.
And according to Maddow, NPR reported that the number of health care bills passed without the use of reconciliation can be counted on one hand.
Reconciliation is how we do health care reform – love it or leave it.
