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November 19, 2003
What's the Point?
The Republican Senators from Maine, New Hampshire and John McCain (R - Ariz.) are going to join the majority of Democratic Senators in voting against the energy bill and possibly filibustering it if necessary.
If you want to see what a bill looks like that was written by and for lobbyists, check out the image to the right. This bill contains everything the industry could possibly want (minus ANWR) and few of the provisions the Senate actually voted on before it got to conference committee.
Susan Collins (R - Maine) is especially incensed, as two of her environmentally friendly amendments, which passed with 60 and 99 votes didn't even make it in the final bill.
Attention, Zell Miller: This really is the last straw for you and I. If you vote for this bill, you'll show yourself to be far from the 'independent mind' you advertise on your book jackets, and truly this President's yes-man in the Senate.
UPDATE: Here's a good conservative critique of the bill.
Posted by Chris at November 19, 2003 01:07 PM
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You have a straw left? You have far more patience than I.
Posted by: Greg Greene at November 19, 2003 01:33 PM
Just one.
Posted by: Chris at November 19, 2003 02:54 PM
Now CATO is your bitch too? As in the GOP doesn't listen to them, just cherry picks their rhetoric when it overlaps with the GOP's plans. Well They are right about the fossil subsidies wrong about the fuel cells. CATO must know that energy from fossils is only cheap and available today because of big subsidies way back that created the industry, so new energy sources that don't pollute (or do it less) should be given the same treatment. But they are right on that established industries shouldn't need subsidies, and of course I don't want to give money to industries that create more pollution.
Furthermore, CATO's "always against the government" stance does nothing to adress the energy security angle. If we let the markets have their way we'd probably import all of our oil from the middle east and ditch alternative energy research all together. OK some Soros outfit might do some reasearch but the going would be slower.
That and the Carter bashing bothers me. Putting on that sweater was one of the bravest domestic policy moves a US president has ever made.
Thanks for writing about this though, I've been sleeping on it.
Posted by: Wes at November 20, 2003 12:01 AM
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