{"id":271240,"date":"2010-02-03T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75664"},"modified":"2010-02-03T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:03:31","slug":"graham-to-senate-dems-don%e2%80%99t-pass-%e2%80%98some-half-assed-energy-bill%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/271240","title":{"rendered":"Graham to Senate Dems: Don\u2019t Pass \u2018Some Half-Assed Energy Bill\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of moderate Democratic senators are pushing to scrap comprehensive climate legislation and instead pass a much weaker energy bill that <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/environment\/2010\/02\/democrats-climate-plan-b\">has been called<\/a> a &#8220;flashback  to Bush energy policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Sen. Lindsey Graham&#8217;s (R-S.C.) response? That won&#8217;t cut it.<span id=\"more-75664\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kate Sheppard <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/blue-marble\/2010\/02\/obama-graham-senate-no-half-assed-climate-bill\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Graham on Wednesday also rejected moving the Senate energy bill alone.  &#8220;If the approach is to try to pass some half-assed energy bill, and say  that moves the ball down the road, forget it with me,&#8221; the South  Carolina Republican told business leaders from the renewable energy  industry on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This from a senator whose <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/74953\/does-grahams-backtrack-spell-the-end-of-cap-and-trade\">perceived waffling on cap-and-trade<\/a> just a week ago was called the &#8220;death knell&#8221; for climate legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of moderate Democratic senators are pushing to scrap comprehensive climate legislation and instead pass a much weaker energy bill that has been called a &#8220;flashback to Bush energy policy.&#8221; Conservative Sen. Lindsey Graham&#8217;s (R-S.C.) response? That won&#8217;t cut it. Kate Sheppard reports: Graham on Wednesday also rejected moving the Senate energy bill alone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}