Lindsey Graham

Outline of bipartisan Kerry, Lieberman, Graham proposal likely beforehand

U.N. deputy says Copenhagen deal may take two stage approach 0
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Graham rebukes fellow Republicans saying, “The green economy is coming!”

Graham, Kerry, ‘will be working closely with the White House’ 0
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago Joseph Romm shares Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.) remarkable remarks about climate action.
In the clearing stands a Boxer ...

What does recent Senate drama on the climate bill mean? Peak Boxer 7
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago There's been some weird goings-on in Congress around the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill over the past few days. Why has the process been so darn messy? Lots of senators don't want to play ball with Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).
Lindsey Graham rebukes fellow Republicans: ‘The green economy is coming’ 1
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago While other Senate Republicans led by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) boycott action on the climate crisis, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has chosen a leadership role.
Graham and Kerry are in talks with White House “to discuss a possible compromise.” 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago Washington Post gets climate bill politics story backwards and buries the big news.
Moderate GOP candidate yields to angry conservative

Honey, I shrunk the GOP, Part 4 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago We’ve seen how GOP conservatives want to cleanse their party of moderates. Even Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), among the 20 most conservative U.S. Senators in 2008, is being attacked for even daring to engage in bipartisan efforts to solve our climate and energy security problem.
Republicans for Enviromental Protection push back for Graham 0
Posted 1 month ago
Obama says ‘It’s hard to say’ why critics of clean energy accuse him of socialism 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The current system has reaped great rewards for the ultra-wealthy and the industrial polluters at the expense of the health and welfare of their fellow Americans. To avoid blame for their malfeasance, they must paint Obama as the villain, and his essential reform agenda as even scarier than the status quo, with language that taps into the darkest fears of the American public.
Swagga, bitchez!

Greens have finally got the Big Mo 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago It looks like greens pushing for clean energy legislation finally have the wind at their back, with a streak of positive media stories about new friends and very stupid enemies.
How will key senators vote on a climate bill?

Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Sen. Lindsey Graham has stepped up to become the leading Republican advocate of a bipartisan climate bill, joining with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to put forward a framework for climate legislation that they say can actually pass the Senate.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Strange bedfellows edition 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago With Lindsey Graham throwing his support behind a senate climate bill, some conservatives are asking why he hopped in bed with the enemy. Which is shortsighted! Not to mention, it forces us to picture John Kerry naked. Wrote a poem about it.
Teabaggers erupt at Lindsey Graham: ‘Wussypants, girly-man, half-a-sissy’ 2
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Right-wing activists across the nation are enraged by Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) decision to work with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to craft comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation.
Game Changer

Kerry-Graham op-ed dramatically enhances prospects for Senate climate bill this year 2
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago It's hard to overstate the significance of the New York Times op-ed by Senators John Kerry (D-Ma) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Their joint declaration ensures that the Senate climate bill will be bipartisan, and that comprehensive energy and climate legislation is the next item on the Senate agenda. Will the U.S. have a climate bill for Copenhagen?
Less mopin', more hopin'

Seven reasons for optimism about the Senate climate bill 12
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Conventional wisdom says that the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill faces a long uphill slog against unlikely odds. Here's the thing about Beltway CW, though: it always forecasts delay, difficulty, and failure. And it's always right. Until it's wrong. Here are seven reasons for cautious optimism.
Baby carrots

How Senate Dems should lure GOP to a climate bill 9
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago The greenosphere is abuzz with the news that a few Republican Senators are open to the climate bill if certain conditions are met. In classic form, Senate Dems are signalling their willingness -- no eagerness! -- to give the Republicans whatever they want.