• June 29, 2009 10:36 AM

    Come On, President Obama

    Friday afternoon the House passed, quite narrowly, a deeply flawed climate change bill. This weekend, Mr. Obama, who is an enthusiastic supporter of the legislation even though it gutted many provisions on which he campaigned in an effort to woo coal legislators, had only a single complaints - that the legislation imposes a tariff, in 2020, on countries who are without a system for limiting CO2 emissions.

    That is it? I have to say that this bodes very badly for improving the House bill as climate change legislation is considered in the Senate. If the public does not know what needs to be improved, it will only be weakened further.

    Posted by Michael Kieschnick
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  • Keith Moore [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    At least you got the "deeply flawed" part right. The deepest flaw is, of course, that it was passed at all but I can always get to that later. Of interest to me is that Obama actually recognizes a very serious flaw when he sees it: the House, in a fit of irrationality, planned to punish any country that doesn't buy into its fantasies about climate change. Good for him, being able to percieve a legitimate problem.

    Actually, you really really don't want the public to know how to fix this bill because the public would scream for it to be buried twelve feet under with all its dangers, flaws, and flights of imagination.

    Posted on June 29, 2009 6:13 PM

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