June 27, 2005

TOSSING THE GRAY LADY A BONE:

Climate Shock (NY Times, 6/27/05)

The Senate has now completed work on an energy bill that might actually do some good. But that was not the only surprising news from the Senate floor last week: despite ferocious White House opposition, the Senate went on record as favoring a program of mandatory controls of emissions of the gases that contribute to global warming.

It did so in a "sense of the Senate" resolution whose nonbinding nature allowed opponents of aggressive action to dismiss it as meaningless.

The resolution was anything but meaningless.


This is what the progressive movement in America is reduced to? Crowing about a non-binding resolution?

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 27, 2005 11:05 AM
Comments

That's what you get when your party is controlled by "intellectuals". I'll take one run by bug zappers any day...

Posted by: b at June 27, 2005 11:22 AM

Ah, "anything but meaningless?" Then I suppose that the Times will accept that the earlier sense of the Senate resolution rejecting the Kyoto Treaty (if China and other nations weren't included, as they weren't) passed 98-0, over the opposition of the Clinton White House?

Posted by: John Thacker at June 27, 2005 11:41 AM

"Progressive?" I suppose so, if you think luddite reversion to pre-industrial economy and stone-age religion is "progress."

Posted by: Lou Gots at June 27, 2005 5:51 PM

Lou:

Absolutely! As long as it's catered and there's 24 hour room service.

Posted by: Luciferous at June 27, 2005 6:29 PM
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