Climate Bill Burns Up

Waxmen-Markey was such a disaster that this might be the best news of the month:

WASHINGTON — In a move that may derail a comprehensive climate change and energy bill in the Senate, one of the measure’s central architects, Senator Lindsey Graham, has issued an angry protest over what he says are Democratic plans to give priority to a debate over immigration policy.

Mr. Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said in a sharply worded letter on Saturday that he would no longer participate in negotiations on the energy bill, throwing its already cloudy prospects deeper into doubt. He had been working for months with Senators John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, on the a legislation, which they were scheduled to announce with considerable fanfare on Monday morning. That announcement has been indefinitely postponed.

In his letter to his two colleagues, Mr. Graham said that he was troubled by reports that the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, and the White House were planning to take up an immigration measure before the energy bill. Mr. Graham has worked with Democrats in the past on immigration matters and was expected to be an important bridge to Republicans on that issue, as well as on energy.

Cap and Tax basically called for an allotment system of carbon emissions that would be handed to various industries with only a handful of the US business community paying for the original licenses. (Think Oil and other groups the Democrats hate paying). Eventually the Government would begin charging business to emit and eventually they would be forced to adopt cleaner methods simply to stay in business . And who would suffer from this, why the working and middle class of course.