{"id":472108,"date":"2010-03-25T17:44:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80540"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:44:02","slug":"graham-after-health-care-fight-conservative-dems-won%e2%80%99t-support-climate-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/472108","title":{"rendered":"Graham: After Health Care Fight, Conservative Dems Won\u2019t Support Climate Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the only man in Washington who’s actively working to undermine legislation he’s in the process of writing.<\/p>\n

Graham’s surprising (and politically brave<\/a>) work on a comprehensive climate bill with Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has been punctuated by hedges and backtracks<\/a>, all while insisting he’s committed to passing the legislation. Today is no exception. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Hill reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters Thursday that Democrats from conservative states will now be less likely to embrace the climate effort now that they’ve cast a tough vote on healthcare.<\/p>\n

“I think it creates risk aversion,” he told reporters after the Senate passed a package of changes to the health care law.<\/p>\n

Graham singled out Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln, Jon Tester and Ben Nelson as being less likely to vote for climate change.<\/p>\n

“Go talk to Blanche Lincoln. ‘Hey, you want to do energy and climate? You want to do immigration?’ Go talk to [Jon]Tester, to Ben Nelson, give them a shout-out,” he said. “I just think the idea of doing hard things has been tainted because the blowback they are getting on health care has made them risk averse.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He insists he’ll “continue to work with Kerry and Lieberman to put together a bill on energy and climate that looks at an old problem in a new way” — but in a Washington culture where perception is everything, they can’t be thanking him for announcing that a contingent of Democrats won’t be likely to support their efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the only man in Washington who’s actively working to undermine legislation he’s in the process of writing. Graham’s surprising (and politically brave) work on a comprehensive climate bill with Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has been punctuated by hedges and backtracks, all while insisting he’s committed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472108","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\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}