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  My Rep (AZ CD 1) voted against it. I am not a political naif and I realize "politics is politics and the game must be played". I also realize that even though Democrats outnumber Republicans in my district, the GOP has been able to win here quite often. But we have a Democrat back in the saddle and she voted against it (even though support here for Obama was strong). What drove me into a rage was reading her press release explaining why she voted against it. Not once did she even mention the words climate change. It was all about eliminating waste, decreasing federal regulation, and saving all of us hard-working folks from even more taxes and costs. Coming as this did on the heels of her voting against the tobacco regulations for the same reason, I am seriously struggling with how things changed in my district by kicking the GOP out and voting the Dems in. I've been involved in climate change work since 1998, and back then we were bemoaning the fact that as a nation we were doing far too little, too slowly. Reading my Representative's statement that this bill did "too much too fast" chilled me to the bone.

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  Just an FYI on dates

  I'm not a big fan of the constant, and in my opinion somewhat tortured, comparisons between President Obama and Presidents Roosevelt and Lincoln. But I understand they are popular and maybe I'm just being a curmudgeon. However, you might want to revisit your dates. In 1862 there was no "looming" threat of "secession of the southern states". They had already done so in 1861 (with South Carolina actually leaving the Union in 1860).  As for the Great Depression, most historians consider its start 1929. I've not come across the claim that it began in 1932 before.On Obama should make like Lincoln and abolish fossil fuels posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 10 Responses