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Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said today he signed on to fellow GOP Sen. Richard Lugar's energy bill for two simple reasons: "Sen. Lugar doesn't have oil drilling. He doesn't have 'cap and trade.'"
Last month, Graham walked away from a bipartisan climate change/energy bill he brokered with Sens. John Kerry (D) and Joe Lieberman (I). At the time, Graham attributed his decision to immigration politics and the oil spill in the gulf.
In announcing his support today for Lugar's bill, he again pointed to the oil spill in dramatic terms:
It would be very hard for Lindsey Graham to go back to South Carolina and say, 'Let's expand drilling in this environment.' I want to know what the hell happened. I want to make sure it doesn't happen again. I want the people of South Carolina to have the option one day to expand drilling off our coast if they choose. But I'm not going to put that on the table until I understand what happened with this oil spill and make sure we don't do it again.
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I could be wrong but I don't think the Deep Water Horizon had exploded yet when Lindsay Graham bolted. He did get miffed about the immigration issue though which is petty since Congress could actually do both since both are important.
I do like Richard Lugar since he seems to actually want to fix big problems most of the time. I would not be surprised if the Lugar bill and the Kerry/Lieberman bill result in taking the best of both to make good legislation which at least moves us forward.
Interesting and amusing to watch republicans suddenly running as fast as they can from "drill, baby drill".
Yeah since now its "spill, baby spill" lol.
I agree! It is sad what happened but maybe we can reinvigorate our economy, help our environment and clean up the climate. Go Lugar, Graham, Kerry etc
You DUMB ASS ...Lindsey Graham..... it happened because your party the GOP looked the other way while your friends reaped huge profits ! Your bought and paid for A$$ ...... is " WHAT HAPPENED"