Senate vote 141

[John Galt]

Texas Senator Cornyn issued a nice news release today about the hazards of the global warming bill under consideration in the senate.

However both Texas Senators voted FOR cloture on the bill.

Seems like I recall that they tried this stunt with amnesty.

[Timberwolf]

Geez...not this shiite again...

[Naturalized-Texan]

If this is the bill I think it is (the cap and trade bill now being debated), our Senators probably wanted the bill to be voted on because it is sure to go down to a smashing defeat.

[John Galt]

I wish I shared your optimism. Cornyn has indicated he will vote no, but I fear Hutchison and most of the other RINO's and certainly most of the dems will vote yes.

[Naturalized-Texan]

I wish I shared your optimism. Cornyn has indicated he will vote no, but I fear Hutchison and most of the other RINO's and certainly most of the dems will vote yes.
Enough Dems are going to vote against this "cap and trade" $6.7 trillion tax increase to ensure its defeat. For more details:

Mitch McConnell on Warner-Lieberman (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_060408/content/01125108.guest.html)

RUSH: All right, I'm looking here at the oil price, today's oil price right now, oil futures at $122.53 a barrel. That's down about nine dollars since last Wednesday. It looks like this whole thing was a bubble, everybody panics. Gasoline prices and energy prices rise like they did; they have to come down at some point. As part of the panic we get Warner-Lieberman debated this week. I'm hearing the conventional wisdom is this bill doesn't have a prayer of getting out of the Senate, much less through the House. Is that true?

MCCONNELL: Well, I certainly hope not. Can you imagine a worse proposal to be bringing up with gas prices sky-high like they are? I mean, the Wall Street Journal called this bill the most expensive reorganization of the American economy since the New Deal, and they're absolutely right. I mean, this thing is a $6.7 trillion tax increase on the American people. And we know, at a minimum, it will drive up gas prices 53 cents a gallon. This is a very, very comprehensive and awful proposal. And we're certainly going to do everything we can in the Senate to see to it that it doesn't become law.

[Naturalized-Texan]

I wish I shared your optimism. Cornyn has indicated he will vote no, but I fear Hutchison and most of the other RINO's and certainly most of the dems will vote yes.
It turned out that I was correct.

Cornyn and Hutchison both voted to begin debate on the $6.7 billion cap and trade bill so that the Republicans could filibuster it. Their first delaying tactic was to force the reading by the clerk of the entire bill - all 492 pages (that took a full day). The Dems later shelved the bill due to Republican delaying tactics. The cloture vote to end the Republican filibuster failed 48-36 with Hutchison voting No. Cornyn was absent. (Source: Houston Chronicle, June 8, 2008, pg. A28)