| By Bret Thompson, ProgressOhio - Jun 26th, 2009 at 8:05 pm EDT |
Late this afternoon Waxman-Markey/ACES/"the climate change bill" passed the House by 7 votes. Ohio's John Boehner (R) broke ground by being perhaps the first in House history to psuedo-filibuster a bill.
Boccieri, Driehaus, Fudge, Kaptur, Kilroy, Ryan, Space, Sutton
Voting no:
Austria, Boehner, Jordan, Kucinich, LaTourette, Schmidt, Tiberi, Turner, Latta, Wilson
Probably the biggest surprise on this list, for those not following this bill closely, is Dennis Kucinich's no vote. He strongly opposed the concessions made in committee, which have watered the bill down substantially.
In unrelated news, the Department of Energy awarded Ohio the first $38.4 million of an expected $96 million in grants for clean energy and energy efficiency projects.
- $35 million will be used to help develop renewable energy sources in Ohio. Some of this may be used to help businesses that manufacture components for use in renewable energy.
$30 million will go for loans that will be available to private companies that want to invest in renewable-energy projects.
$15 million will be used for grants to help manufacturers became more energy efficient and reduce the emission of pollutants.
$8 million will cover grants to improve the energy efficiency of commercial and residential buildings.
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You'd expect the shallow media elite to be only too quick to try to wedge Kucinich from his dedicated Progressive base.
But they want nothing to do with Kucinich. They don't want to give him a free forum to speak at all. They want him to disappear, and they definitely know he's smart enough to defend himself against their miserable assumtions and assertions.
Kucinich votes against watered-down, toothless, compromise crap like Waxman-Markey. This is well established, and his true base is not fooled or misled. What I'd like to see on the other hand, is pushback against the piddling centrism of other Ohio Democratic moderates and centrists, with Kucinich leading the attack.