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

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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