Bill Scher: Dems Go Lukewarm on Global Warming (TomPaine.com)

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Dems Go Lukewarm on Global Warming


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is lowering expectations regarding planned global warming legislation, the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire blog reported Friday. Pelosi, D-Calif., prompted concerns last week when an aide said a climate-change and energy-independence bill might not be ready by Pelosi’s June 1 deadline.

Pelosi later explained: “We have two years in this Congress; we do not expect to achieve complete solutions … by June 1.”

To push for a "complete" solution would mean enacting a long-overdue, urgently needed cap on greenhouse gas emissions. But that's sure to be vetoed by President Bush or filibustered by Senate conservatives. So it would appear Pelosi is angling for a baby step with no cap, which won't do much to reverse global warming but has a shot of being signed into law.

The strategic question is, what would build more momentum for necessary reforms? A law that takes us a baby step forward? Or a veto of widely-supported legislation, jolting the public and sparking the removal of political obstacles occupying Congress and the White House in 2008? .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/03/19/dems_go_lukewarm_on_global_warming.php

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