Cap And Trade Will Need 60 Votes It Doesn't Have

The WSJ tells us that Obama's cap and trade for carbon emissions is dying a slow death:

Please pass Al Gore a Valium -- and better make it a double -- because his cap-and-trade dreams just took a dive in the U.S. Senate. In a vote late Wednesday, no fewer than 26 Democrats joined all 41 Republicans to insist that any new cap and tax on carbon energy would require at least 60 votes.

Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander called it "the biggest vote of the year" so far, and he's right. This means Majority Leader Harry Reid can't jam cap and tax through as part of this year's budget resolution with a bare majority of 50 Senators. More broadly, it's a signal that California and East Coast Democrats won't be able to sock it to coal and manufacturing-heavy Midwestern states without a fight. Senators voting in favor of the 60-vote rule included liberals from Wisconsin, Michigan and West Virginia.

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Comments

[clarice]

Don't let down your card. This is a setback not yet a defeat for the cap and tax crowd.

[Max Power]

If it's brown flush it down,
If it's green...um...something about a spleen?

[clarice]

**GUARD**

[Pagar]

Carp and Trade is the newest method of legal theft that the left has dreamed up and there is no chance, IMO, that the Left will give up this opportunity to steal from the American public. Like Clarice says, we must never let our guard down. They'll change the name, place it inside some other bill in the middle of the night, get ACORN to count the votes, etc, but they will never let go of another way to steal from America.

[richard mcenroe]

Thug explains new banking rules

[davod]

Cap and Trade, taxes on CO2 producers. Whatever.

The courts have just agreed the the EPA can regulate (I thinks this is the word)CO2 emissions. With this power they can close down most of the power stations in this country.

[rhodeymark]

In Supertrampese, it's Crisis, What Crisis? meets Crime Of The Century.