GOP in meltdown over climate bill

GOP Poised To Eat Its Own After Climate Bill’s Passage
By Sam Stein

In the immediate aftermath of the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, otherwise known as Waxman-Markey, attention within conservative circles turned to the eight Republican lawmakers who supported the measure. The bill had passed by a margin of 219 to 212. Even the most mathematically challenged would understood that had four of those Republicans switched their votes, the legislation might have died on the House floor.

And so the GOP began the process of, what one Democratic strategist called, “eating its own.” A classic western “Wanted” posted was sent around the web accusing the eight Republicans — Reps. Mary Bono Mack (Calif.), Mike Castle (Del.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), John McHugh (N.Y.), Frank LoBiondo (N.J.), Leonard Lance (N.J.), Dave Reichert (Wash.), and Chris Smith (N.J.) — of “selling out taxpayers.” Rush Limbaugh, in the process of ridiculing the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Henry Waxman, damned the Republican Party for facilitating the legislation’s passage.

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GOP in meltdown over climate bill

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