It’s Barack Obama in New Hampshire! Here he is politely acknowledging that the Senate will probably drop cap-and-trade this year. And sorry, “Starbucks coffee enthusiasts,” but that sounds like a pretty good idea right now.
It won’t help to bring this to the Senate process, draw more expectations about passing it, and obviously let it fail after six more months of wasted time in an election year when they’ve already chosen to fix the global financial system, make sure more humans can work in exchange for legal tender which can then be exchanged for goods and services, allow a gay person in the military to say “I’m gay” and not be fired from the military, attempt to fix a Supreme Court decision that threatens the future of everything immediately, and perhaps do something with that health care bill they spent one year creating and have passed in both chambers of Congress.
Oh and right, they also want to do immigration reform, because the Mexicans won’t vote for them.
Cap-and-trade or an emissions tax seems like one of those things to take up again after filibuster reform. (They also want to reform the filibuster this year.) Just move to higher ground and pile some sandbags around the house, if you’re worried. Sorry!
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… and Bringing Back Arrested Development.
http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/obama-bring-back-arrested-development.jpg
He’s still the cutest president since JFK, you have to give him that at least.
Right — continuing that wonderful cycle the GOP has developed, wherein all they have to do in order to keep Democrats from making progress is to fuck things up so badly when they’re in power that the Dems have to fix a world of shit once they get in. After a year, a restless populace grows disenchanted with the slow pace of fixing things, and in a spate of frustration, elects the rich motherfuckers with pithy answers to every question, who then continue to fuck things up royally.
I hope the electorate kills this cycle of stupidity in 2010 though — finally handing the Republicans the keys to the obscurity they so richly deserve.
Maybe you guys should have gone with the parliamentary system instead of chucking it when you booted Johnny Bull from US Americuh. Less retarded than what’s going on here.
Sounds you guys need a 100 seat majority to pass anything.
[re=506196]Suds McKenzie[/re]: I could live without health insurance if I could just get my Teamocil back. or perhaps some euphorizine.
As long as the Republicans continue outnumber the Democrats in the Senate, the Dems won’t be able to get much done. And I’ve got about as much faith in their actually reforming the filibuster as I do in winning the lottery.
But, Jim! I’m an adult, and I deserve to get everything I want right now! *stomps his adorable fuzzy footpaw soundlessly on the floor, his tail twitching with angst*
[re=506202]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Hey, at least we kept Britain’s idea for a House of Lords; only we still let ours have real power.
[re=506199]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Wow. What is that? Like political science, or psychology or what? No. Its human neurobiology and that means they’re unstoppable!
The more they fuk things up the more the angry masochistic short memoried hosts want them back.
Just like the parasite (a worm) that lives in mice but can only reproduce in the intestines of cats. To reproduce, it takes control of the olfactory part of the mouses brain and makes it sexually attracted to cat urine. A perfect parasite/host relationship. From the parasite’s point of view of course.
[re=506202]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Oh you Canuckistanis, with your smug superiority, and your single-payer medical system, and your willingness to serve as peacekeepers in whatever shit-holes US America has chosen to bless with bombs, and your hydro-power and tar sands energy independence, and your great north woods, and your softwood lumber, and your willingness to take our draft resisters…
Shit, I’m on the next plane.
I hope the electorate kills this cycle of stupidity in 2010 though
It might help if the Democrats would just flat out say that the Republicans are being stupid, obstructionist cretins instead of giving them credibility with all the efforts toward “bipartisanship”.
whoa, whoa there. The Democrats have brought out their ace-in-the-hole to handle the JOBS, JOBS, JOBS bill: Max Baucus!!! Yes, the guy who made a name for himself with Health Care Reform will be working his magic with jobs, too. It just don’t get no better’n this.
(weeps)
[re=506196]Suds McKenzie[/re]: He’s already working on it but Baucus is holding it up in an attempt to see if he can get Olympia Snowe to vote in support of it. According to Ezra Klein, the Senate bill will only call for the return of Jason Batemen, Will Arnett, Jeffrey Tambor, Portia De Rossi and Alika Shawkat but Michael Cera, Jessica Water, David Cross and everyone else had to get cut out of the bill because Lieberman didn’t like those characters. The Republicans are, of course, filibustering it because they want “Everybody Loves Raymond” to come back instead
[re=506202]ManchuCandidate[/re]: wouldn’t even happen then.
[re=506204]Crank Tango[/re]:.. and remember, there’s no I in Teamocil, at least not where you’d think.
Alls I know is that without cap and trade teen pregnancies and the black market for babies will go through the roof.
Meth Cap-and-Trade? Ted Haggard is gonna be pissed!
He should just proceed to creating an NCAA Division 1 football playoff system, the fucking retards can understand that, at least.
I think debate over cap-and-trade gets nobody anywhere. All human beings with any say in the legislation should simply be required to visit the factory zones of eastern Zhejiang province for a month, and THEN see how they feel about curbing emissions.
Are there worse gigs than serving as a backdrop person for political speeches?
And Mary Landrieu is only on board if she is personally “serviced” by Henry Winkler.
[re=506241]Prommie[/re]: I betcha there’d still be a veto threat.
Look, his sleeves are rolled up. That means he means business!!!
[re=506282]thesheriffisnear[/re]: Huh, what? I’ve watched that video 3 times, and I have no idea what he’s talking about. I’m too distracted by his new not-fully-dressed look. There’s just something about a guy in a suit…or part of a suit…with his sleeves rolled up like that, esp. when we never get to see his arms…sigh. Amirite ladies, and some men?
Sigh, Barry. Why can’t I quit you?
[re=506303]Katydid[/re]: What’s truly distracting, and disturbing, is the mouth-breathing audience in the background. In NEW ENGLAND?!?! Must be Union Leader subscribers. SCARY!!!
[re=506328]thesheriffisnear[/re]: Forget it, sheriff. It’s New Hampshire. Even their car tags are insanely threatening: LIVE FREE OR DIE. Jesus, get over yourselves.
The plus side of delaying cap and trade is that rising water levels will flood Tea Partiers’ underground bunkers and drown them all
we are fat.
Countdown to The Road in T minus ten years 200 days 5 hours 52 seconds… optimistically
[re=506303]Katydid[/re]: Spot on.
Carbon markets are hot elsewhere (like in London). Needs moar “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore”.
He’s definitely wearing a wife-beater shirt under his dress shirt. That’s not very presidentiary.
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