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[Scared Monkeys] The creation of an economy-wide market for greenhouse gas emissions is as the heart of the climate bill that cleared the House earlier this year. But with the health care fight still raging and the economy still hurting, moderate Democrats have little appetite for another sweeping initiative ”” especially another one likely to pass with little or no Republican support.

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[POLITICO Top Stories] Senate Democrats to W.H.: Drop cap-and-trade - - POLITICO.com: The article says, "...Moderate House Democrats who voted in favor of the cap-and-trade bill just before the July 4th recess came under fire back home, and Republicans have vowed to make the issue a key line of attack during next year’s elections..." Again, there are NO moderate Democrats. Only a blithering idiot would vote for cap-and-tax.

[The Coast of Utopia] Moderates Want Their Pound of Flesh on Energy: Senate Democrats ...: But with the health care fight still raging and the economy still hurting, moderate Democrats have little appetite for another sweeping initiative ”” especially another one likely to pass with little or no Republican support. “We need to deal with the phenomena of global warming, but I think it's very difficult in the kind of economic circumstances we have right now,” said Indiana Democratic Sen.

[Politics For the Rest of Us] Agreed: Drop the Cap and Trade, Its a Scam: Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of at least half a dozen Democrats who've told the White House or their own leaders that it's time to jettison the centerpiece of their party's plan to curb global warming. But with the health care fight still raging and the economy still hurting, moderate Democrats have little appetite for another sweeping initiative ”” especially another one likely to pass with little or no Republican support.

[CJR] What's Behind the Drop in Obama's Approval Ratings? : CJR: (5)The major news media does so much dirty work for the Democrats that the latter can pass themselves off as just too darn nice to attack Republicans. Nothing that Ailes, Atwater, etc., have done was quite as trashy as the NY Times attempt last year to slime McCain with the charge of an affair with a lobbyist (Ted Kennedy was once caught in a public place on top of a lady lobbyist, but the Times chastely averted its eyes and nose), or its investigation into the dead issue of Cindy McCain's past abuse of prescription drugs.

[The Patriot Room] Health care deadline obstacles pile up: Independents top poll in fearing govt will do t... Here's the news - check Independents: "Sixty percent (60%) of Democrats worry more than the government will not do enough to help the economy. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Republicans and 71% of voters not affiliated with either party have the opposite concern and fear the government will do too much."

[TRAIL BLAZERS] TRAIL BLAZERS Blog | The Dallas Morning News: Gore has gotten away with throwing out any stupid facts about Climate change until lately because the MSM has been behind him all the way until recently when his statement about the Ice Cap melting away in five years,and this thing about the center of the Earth being millions of degrees finally went over the top and they(MSM)just couldn't avoid the obvious. The MSM,maybe will now stop being a "lap dog" for Gore.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Dear President Obama #323: The ...: that we even have pro-global warming and anti-global warming camps. Getting in bed with the Democrats or Republicans, or any interest group will only wind up in heartache.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Climategate: When Scientists Become Politicians: It is simply part of the atmosphere and a very, very small part at that. Moreover, if the purported climatologists had done their homework, they would have noticed that CO2 will more often than not increase more after the increase in tempurature and not before, and the answer to why that is so is simple.

[Jennie Rigg: Taking Each Day a Night At a Time] The Blood is the Life!: ( I don't know what it says about me that in those situations I choose the obvious third option - Lib Dems and GNU/Linux - rather than going further down the list and choosing say the Greens or Trots, or NetBSD or OpenSolaris...)

[BrothersJudd Blog] BrothersJudd Blog: MORE DISAPPOINTMENT AHEAD:: The creation of an economy-wide market for greenhouse gas emissions is as the heart of the climate bill that cleared the House earlier this year. But with the health care fight still raging and the economy still hurting, moderate Democrats have little appetite for another sweeping initiative ”” especially another one likely to pass with little or no Republican support.

[Deer Hunters Net] Deer Hunters Net » Blog Archive » Senate Dems to W.H.: Drop cap ...: Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of at least half a dozen Democrats who've told the White House or their own leaders that it's time to jettison the centerpiece of their party's plan to curb global warming. But with the health care fight still raging and the economy still hurting, moderate Democrats have little appetite for another sweeping initiative ”” especially another one likely to pass with little or no Republican support.

[Arkansas Blog] Arkansas Blog: Friday night test -- UPDATE: E-cigs, BTW are carefully marketed as a "smoking alternative" or "nicotine alternative" and NOT as a "smoking cessation" drug or program (in which case they would have to be tested by the FDA for at least a couple of years, at a cost of $1-2 billion, then "approved" -- or not, since they would be fought by Big Tobacco and Big Pharma every step of the way, as they are already beginning to be, though the three ingredients in them (glycerine and nicotine and flavor) are legal and, the glycerine (vapor) and flavors (often made by Lorann's, a common manufacturer of flavors for cooking) are common and already-approved food additives.

[WE Blog] Open thread 12/1 | WE Blog | Wichita Eagle Blogs: Thus, the European Commission’s most recent appropriation for climate research comes to nearly $3 billion, and that’s not counting funds from the EU’s member governments. In the U.S., the House intends to spend $1.3 billion on NASA’s climate efforts, $400 million on NOAA’s, and another $300 million for the National Science Foundation.

[blog.cagle.com - main] Moderation be Damned | blog.cagle.com - main: Today’s elections won’t “prove” anything one way or the other, but if Democrats lose dark blue New Jersey along with Virginia and NY 23, Katie bar the door in 2010. And if Democrats get thumped as hard as it looks like they may, we may well see them divide into a “Social Democrat Party” on the far Left as Republican again becomes more synonymous with conservative.

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