Analysis: Obama scores major victory on climate

[WI_DEM]

Facing a rare defeat, President Barack Obama put a big dose of political capital on the line and scored a major victory just when he needed one.

In private telephone conversations and last-minute public appeals, Obama leaned heavily on House Democratic holdouts to support the first energy legislation ever designed to curb global warming. The measure ended up passing in dramatic fashion.

In the end, the president's furious lobbying - coupled with a final push by allies including former Vice President Al Gore - carried much weight. To a certain extent, the victory validated Obama's governing style - and that could bode well for his other top domestic priority, health care. He faces an even more difficult test in shepherding the energy and climate legislation through the Senate.


In his weekly address President Barack Obama says the climate bill is a jobs bill.

In his weekly address President Barack Obama says energy efficiency is key to improving the economy.

In his weekly address President Barack Obama says the climate bill won't be a financial hardship for consumers.

In his weekly address President Barack Obama praises the climate bill.

In his weekly address President Barack Obama dismisses critics who say his energy plans will cost money instead of save it.


"Now my call to every senator, as well as to every American, is this: We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past," Obama said in his weekend Internet and radio address. He scrapped his talk on his original topic, health care, and recorded the climate bill speech shortly after the Democratic-controlled House backed the measure on a 219-212 vote late Friday.

It was a win Obama certainly needed. Congress was getting ready for a weeklong holiday break and already health care was hanging in the balance. While his popularity remains strong, Obama's overall ratings have slipped a bit. This restive nation also is wary of some of his proposals, including deficit spending as Obama pumps an enormous amount of money into the economy and elsewhere.

http://www.bradenton.com/politics/story/1540937.html

[WI_DEM]

1. doesn't surprise me that a major legislative victory on climate

which wouldn't have happened in the house without Obama's pressure is ignored on DU while one thread after another attacking him continue to be the top of the charts.

[Winterblues]

2. There were threads here about that bill and who helped to write it.

It seems the very people to be regulated the most were the most influential in the writing of it..:shrug:

[izzybeans]

3. Those threads provide very little by way of evidence as to authorship.

Speculation, for sure, but no evidence. At least that I saw. I'd like to know more though.