GOP blocks important environmental bill

What was this again about the Democrats controlling the Senate now?

Today, Senate Republicans blocked an important climate change bill by abusing the filibuster power. Of course they had some help from a handful of DLC Democrats. The bill would have sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions by limiting pollution by power plants, factories, and refineries.

I guess the corporaterrorists who blocked the bill still don't comprehend that the American public has rejected their cult of climate change denial.

Their excuse for opposing the bill was that it would lead to higher energy costs. Um, no. The fact that state regulators give utility companies every rate increase they ask for does more to run up energy prices than probably anything. (I used to work for the phone company, so I know a bit about how utilities work.)

This bill was shot down despite the fact that a majority of senators supported the proposal. I guess in BushAmerica, a majority doesn't mean much.

Even if this bill had passed Congress, it may have all been all for nothing - because Bush boasted that he was going to veto it anyway. Gives a whole new meaning to the cry, "All that work, wastage bastage!"

Mitch McConnell - the bubble gum obsessed senate GOP leader - cried that the bill is a "huge tax increase." This is a bald-faced lie. The bill actually would've provided tax relief for energy costs.

So now what do we do? Do we just let the corporate cultists get their way by letting pollution march forward uncontrolled?

(Source: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hNv-MFtVtkVdwOvTJ3iV7jq7VIPgD914KSI00)