YNoKyoto: (Not) Showing Up To Riot

AP News;

The president of the Oregon Senate said Tuesday there weren’t enough votes in his majority Democratic caucus to approve a landmark climate bill that has sparked a walkout by Republicans and exacerbated tensions between urban and rural areas.
 
All 11 Republican senators extended their walkout involving the issue for a sixth day, denying Democrats enough lawmakers to muster a vote on the plan that calls for capping and trading pollution credits among companies.
 
Hundreds of protesters flooded the capitol steps to protest the GOP walkout then unexpectedly found themselves pushing back against Democratic Senate President Peter Courtney, who disclosed that the climate plan has lost support among members of his own party.
 
The legislation “does not have the votes on the Senate floor,” he said. “I’ve done as much as I can, and I’ll continue to try.” […]
 
Conservative senators have fled the state to avoid taking a vote on what would be the nation’s second statewide cap and trade program after California, saying it will kill jobs, raise the cost of fuel and gut small businesses in rural areas.
 
Senate Minority Leader Herman Baertschiger said in a statement that Republicans still won’t return to the Capitol until they receive further assurances from Democrats that the legislation is dead.

Good for them.

7 Replies to “YNoKyoto: (Not) Showing Up To Riot”

  1. People on the left of the political spectrum are all nutty. Those who think that the country and the world owes them a free lunch are fools. It becomes increasingly difficult to find any good in any of them.

  2. Hundreds of protesters? Paid protesters maybe?

    Oh, most people are out working, earning a living. Right. That.

  3. Interesting that voters in the great eco-state, Washington, rejected a carbon tax in 2028.

  4. Yes, good for them. Politicians willing to fight, willing to actually use the nuclear option.

    This is what picking a hill to die on looks like, and no one in Canada has ever had a “Conservative” politician who would do it.

    Only, they didn’t die on the hill, did they? Their enemies did, and they appear to have won the fight. Makes you wonder exactly why Andrew Scheer seems to want to live an entire life without ever fighting for a single principle.

  5. Of course they folded. The patriots showed up armed.

    “Send bachelors, and send them heavily armed,” one GOP Senator apparently said. He said it knowing that most state troopers would mutiny if ordered to use their guns on good Americans—and not, say, on the globalist swine in the state capital.

    The left are soiling themselves with fright. Oh, this is a coup d’état. Oh, what if this happens if Trump loses in 2020?

    Well, yes it was, and Oregon’s leftists should thank the God they swear doesn’t exist that none of them was harmed.

    And if this is what good men have to do to finally rein in the globalists from DC if they try to steal the 2020 elections, bring it on. Let’s see how many federal Democrats and Never-Trumpers care to be the last to die for the climate change hoax—or the open borders plot.

  6. The legislation “does not have the votes on the Senate floor,” he said. “I’ve done as much as I can, and I’ll continue to try.”

    The Democrats will Lie and knee cap those Republicans that fail to follow through & foolishly show up…. Drats with bait just have to be DRATS….5 more days & session ends

  7. Here’s looking at you Kenny. UDI. Do a deal with Alaska (rail and pipe) and ship from Valdez. A WEEK shorter time wise to Asia, from any west coast port from Mexico to Prince Rupert.

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