Ambinder:WH"strategy here for getting climate change legis passed.It's called"getting to conference"

[Pirate Smile]

Be aware: the White House has a strategy here for getting climate change legislation passed. It's called "getting to conference." That is, the Senate needs to pass a bill this year. And then the House and Senate will (in theory) put in some sort of carbon pricing mechanism when the two chambers reconcile their bills. It's just much easier to get bills passed without forcing the Senate to try to pass a bill it does not have the votes to pass.

Democrats hope that Obama's speech creates some room for them to run on clean energy platforms and castigate Republicans for siding with big oil against regulation.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/the-night-beat-clapper-to-get-a-recess-appointment/58180/

Vote on the post-Conference Bill on Climate Change legislation could even happen in the lame-duck Congress after the November election.

The problem, as usual, is passing something through the damn Senate.

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1. Yeah, some environmentalists picked up

on that when reviewing Obama's speech.

Thanks for this Pirate Smile.

"Obama Seeking New Ideas on Energy and Climate"

By ANDREW C. REVKIN

President Obama kept the focus of his first Oval Office address on the prime issue at hand — restoring public confidence in his administration’s handling of an unfolding environmental calamity triggered by corporate malfeasance and bureaucratic negligence. He did a workmanlike job, touching all the beats needed in such a speech.

He did not do what some environmental and energy campaigners had hoped — chart a concrete course to a new energy future. There were plenty of allusions to such a future, but — for the most part — he carefully avoided specifics. (To see specifics in an energy speech, have a look at the Oval Office address delivered by former President Jimmy Carter in 1979.)

Obama has left open the prospect of pivoting to energy and climate as a top priority in coming months, but chose (wisely) not to use a moment of national unease, built on a backdrop of unchecked pollution, as a launching pad.

He also signaled that he is leaving open a variety of paths on energy and climate policy and no longer hewing tightly to the idea of a cap and trade system for restricting heat-trapping emissions — which he never wavered from during his campaign. This, too, is wise, given the paralysis in both Congress and international climate-treaty talks over conventional approaches to global warming."


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x341030

[TheKentuckian]

2. After the Wealthcare and Profit Protection Act fiasco, I'm disinclined to ever buy

getting to conference ever again.

Leadership is shifty and conference reports must be ratified which means we have unbalanced the legislature and made the House answerable to the Senate.

[Cant trust em]

3. I present the sigline of the week award to Pirate Smile. nt

[Clio the Leo]

4. ha ha! nt

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6. Thanks but I didn't think of it. I saw it on Daily Kos and swiped it.

:)

[Clio the Leo]

5. WHY DOESN'T HE JUST WRITE HIS OWN BILL!!!!

LIKE HE DID WITH THE HEALTH CARE BILL!!! :rofl: