Vitter claims GOP can block 'any' climate change bill

[babylonsister]

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/09/vitter-claims-gop-can-block-any-climate-change-bill/

Vitter claims GOP can block 'any' climate change bill
@ 4:30 pm by Michael O'Brien


Republicans are able to stop any climate change bill resembling the one passed by the House on the Senate floor, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) declared Thursday.

"I'm predicting — at least as we speak now — that we can kill any major climate change legislation on the Senate floor, and prevent this massive utility and energy tax on every American from going into effect," Vitter said during an interview with a conservative news program.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced earlier today that the Senate wouldn't take up their version of the House cap-and-trade climate bill until after the August recess in Congress. Republicans have accused her of stalling out of concern for a lack or support for the bill.

"I'm very hopeful we'll be able to block any major climate change bill like that which came out of the House on the Senate floor," Vitter said. "I think we'll block it on the Senate floor if the American people really tune in and get the message."

The conservative Louisiana lawmaker said he has "real doubts" about the "so-called 'science'" behind climate change, but charged that the House bill, which would establish a market for carbon permits.

The House version of the bill squeaked by with significant Democratic defections, and some centrist Republicans crossing the aisle to join majority Democrats.

[villager]

1. I suppose the GOP still plans on being raptured before they either drown or starve

...under the new climate conditions?

Then again, cap-and-trade isn't actually going to do enough, anyway... that is, perhaps, the real punchline here...

[Mari333]

2. there is no global warming lalalalala wahhh wahhh

[waiting for hope]

14. +1

Vitter is a big, diaper wearing baby ... I used to live in his district in Louisiana when he was a rep ... the flyers with the picture of the family always reminded me of a Sears photo promo and the blah blah blah accompanying it was retching to say the least.

[KoKo]

3. Is that "Diapers Vitter?" There are so many...I can't keep them all straight....

If so, then clever Dems should be able to wipe him out with a few press releases.

[Horse with no Name]

4. Isn't the lifespan of diapers in landfills something like 150 years?

So with someone who so wantonly uses up our resources, why would he be someone that we listen to about anything regarding the environment?

[aquart]

6. You've made me smile.

Impressive as I am depressed.

[Horse with no Name]

8. Glad I could help

:hug:
In fact, you made me smile. I think I will log off now with happy thoughts.:)

[Raine]

11. yeah if he intends to keeping wear those diapers

I don't want my heirs to have to deal with his shit literally. x(

edit: typo

[Botany]

5. This from a man who wore diapers .... used 'em and then got .....

.... cleaned up and and a spanking from a prostitute for being a naughty boy?


:rant: Those mother fuckers would be willing to kill the planet to help in 2010 vote


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrd_Polar_Research_Center


Greenland
BPRC scientists study Greenland ice sheet and Antarctic ice sheet response to climate change.
Greenland ice cores date to 100,000 years. They are used to study historical temperature, chemical makeup, snowfall, dust, vegetation, volcanic activity, and anthropogenic emissions.
The surface mass balance (precipitation minus evaporation minus blowing snow minus sublimation minus runoff) in Greenland is decreasing each year. Approximately 80 cubic
kilometers of surface mass has been lost each year since 1991. Large melt lakes are appearing at the edges of the Greenland ice sheet on the western side. These melt lakes flow under
the glacier, lubricate it, and speed up its movement.

Antarctica
The Vostok ice core (see Vostok, Antarctica), is 420,000 years old. Studies of this core show cyclical changes in temperature and atmospheric CO2 in ppm (parts-per-million). Average annual temperatures have risen steadily since 1900, with fluctuating temperatures between 1940 and 1980. Average temperature and CO2 have risen and fallen in tandem, but opinions still vary on whether the temperature rise is caused by the increased CO2, or vice versa.

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The current average atmospheric CO2 level is 370 ppm. The highest historical level in the Vostok ice core is 275 ppm.

Conclusion
There is general consensus from the scientific community that global warming is real and is currently occurring, except for a small but vocal minority.
The Conference Board, a corporate think tank, recently made the following observations:
The greenhouse effect is “real and intensifying”,
human activity is contributing to this, and
corporate boards should be evaluating the risks of continuing business as usual.

[Arkana]

7. Asshole.

Go get shit on in a diaper, you perverted jackass.

[Birthmark]

9. Vitter has doubts about the science?

I have real doubts about whether that diaper wearing moron would recognize real science...even if it was dressed up as a hooker.

[Raine]

10. "Diaper Boy"

should be ashamed to show his face in public :blush: you lost all credibility Diaper Boy ... FOOL! I laugh :rofl: when I think of you in your dirty diaper. :rofl:

[Ghost in the Machine]

12. David Vitter knows his shit when it comes to change...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. I believe in diaper change, not climate change