Comments on: The Next Battle – Cap and Trade http://www.delawareliberal.net/2009/12/29/the-next-battle-cap-and-trade/ Ground zero for all things political in Delaware Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:24:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: anon http://www.delawareliberal.net/2009/12/29/the-next-battle-cap-and-trade/#comment-166468 anon Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:48:29 +0000 http://www.delawareliberal.net/?p=32965#comment-166468 <i>So… if anyone has a way to make Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Kent Conrad and Mark Pryor change their stance, speak now. Sadly, I’m not seeing it.</i> Empowered conservadems calling the shots on the next agenda item. Who could have guessed! Obama has not yet denied that he campaigned on cap and trade... so maybe we will see the gloves come off to keep his promise. By watching that, then you will have your answer to the question "What could Obama have done to get a public option?" Or not. So… if anyone has a way to make Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Kent Conrad and Mark Pryor change their stance, speak now. Sadly, I’m not seeing it.

Empowered conservadems calling the shots on the next agenda item. Who could have guessed!

Obama has not yet denied that he campaigned on cap and trade… so maybe we will see the gloves come off to keep his promise.

By watching that, then you will have your answer to the question “What could Obama have done to get a public option?”

Or not.

]]> By: PBaumbach http://www.delawareliberal.net/2009/12/29/the-next-battle-cap-and-trade/#comment-166459 PBaumbach Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:02:40 +0000 http://www.delawareliberal.net/?p=32965#comment-166459 By the way, this issue is very much tied to the course of the HCR work. If Obama had been more forceful in forming the HCR legislation (as many idealists have lamented on DL recently), he would have notably reduced the chances of good (or even moderately good) cap/trade legislation passed. for this reason, I am a self-described pragmatist. By the way, this issue is very much tied to the course of the HCR work. If Obama had been more forceful in forming the HCR legislation (as many idealists have lamented on DL recently), he would have notably reduced the chances of good (or even moderately good) cap/trade legislation passed.

for this reason, I am a self-described pragmatist.

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