Barack Obama in new global warming fight

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Source: The Guardian - U.S.

Stonewalling by opponents means key legislation is unlikely to be in place by Copenhagen summit
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent The Observer, Sunday 25 October 2009

Barack Obama's efforts to forge a new American consensus around the need for action on climate change has run into a brick wall of Republican opposition, with senators threatening a boycott of a proposed law to cut carbon emissions.

The Senate opens a three-day blockbuster of hearings on Tuesday, calling 54 administration officials and environment experts to try to push ahead on a climate change law before a meeting in Copenhagen that is supposed to produce a global action plan on climate change.

With that deadline looming, Obama has made his most forceful appeal to date for Congress to act on climate change. The president said on Friday that Americans had now arrived at a point of convergence on the need to move towards cleaner energy. "I do believe that a consensus is growing," he said. Those still unpersuaded, he said in a speech at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), were outside the mainstream.

...James Inhofe, the Oklahoma senator who gained notoriety for calling global warming a hoax, told reporters late on Friday that he and fellow Republicans on the environment and public works committee might refuse to participate.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/25/barack-obama-climate-change-copenhagen

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1. Republicans love to be on the wrong side of every issue.

[truthisfreedom]

2. republicans insist on doing what makes Obama appear to fail. They don't give a hoot about the future

of the US or the world. Heads in the sand, feet on flat earth.

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3. That's what Michael Tomasky said

in the op ed from the Guardian I posted in Editorials.

He claims they're holding judgeships hostage purely to use to derail Obama's efforts.

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4. Rec'd..Love Michael Tomasky!

We'll get it done without the fail pushers.

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5. The GOP is already irrelevant. If they don't show, write bills without them.

So-called 'bipartisanship' has been killed -- attend its funeral, grieve if you wish, but get on with what's alive.