Comments Go Green Tiger has made

why assume?

The assumption that this will split right along party lines is ludacris. Warner was a republican. and if the GOP remains as far away from climate policy as they can, they'll exhaust all that political capital on energy policy in a hot minute.

First of all, a huge delay of this in Congress will hurt every incumbent in 2 years. That election will feature more GOP senate seats then Democrats, several of those seats are not as safe as they once were to a mistake in energy policy. (which could hurt Dems just as much.)

So when you look at the GOP who are up for election, you should see several who can ill afford to stand in the way of Climate policy. Some GOP senators from blue and swings states, and the Maverick himself, can and will step up to the plate on this one and get it passed.
Just like JMG said, you can't concede this before the session has even started.
On Obama will never get 67 votes for an international climate treaty in the Senate posted 12 months ago 10 Responses