"BREAKING NEWS" (email) from John Kerry

[Jeffersons Ghost]

No long wind-up needed this time, I just wanted to share with you what President Obama just said in Pittsburgh about the climate and energy legislation you and I have been working overtime to get passed for a year now:

"The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive energy and climate bill, and there is currently a plan in the Senate - a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans - that would achieve the same goals. Pittsburgh, I want you to know, the votes may not be there right now, but I intend to find them in the coming months. I will make the case for a clean energy future wherever I can, and I will work with anyone to get this done, and we will get it done. The next generation will not be held hostage to energy sources from the last century. We are not going to move backwards, we are going to move forward."

If you have time, read his entire remarks, but if you don't, here's the bottom line: this is just what we needed with Congress coming back into session next week. Just as we saw with health care, when the President throws down the gauntlet, and puts his prestige on the line and puts the full weight of the White House behind it, we can do big things - the whole debate changes.

This is the fourth time in just 12 days that the President has made it crystal clear that he's not waiting - he's working with us to get our bill passed this year. As he's been saying, the catastrophe in the Gulf shows without a doubt that we need to end our oil addiction, and the Senate has to be on record this year doing something to finally tackle the challenge - no watered down, feel good measures that only postpone the day of reckoning; we're making it happen now.

This is going to be a big fight and we'll need all hands on deck in the next couple of months to make this happen - but now no one can dispute this: President Obama has doubled down on victory.

I'll loop back with ways you can make a difference - now I wanted you to see this, and I want you to know we're on track for the fight you've been pushing for every step of the way.

Now let's make it happen,
John Kerry

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. kiick for Kerry

[karynnj]

2. Kerry has been absolutely persistent on getting this passed.

It is great that President Obama is now pushing to get this done.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. It's my first email from Senator Kerry. It came right after I posted this:::

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8478466

[quiet.american]

3. K&R - still love Kerry . nt

[kimmerspixelated]

6. Me, too! But don't you mean President Kerry, if truth be told?

[indy legend]

8. What a different country we would have today if we had had President Gore and President Kerry

instead of Dubya, and a second Carter term instead of Regan. Come to think of it, when was the last time Republicans actually won an election without theft, deceit or shenanigans of some kind?

[blm]

11. Gore should've tapped Kerry in 2000. He would've POUNDED Cheney in the VP debate.

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[Jeffersons Ghost]

18. I'm glad he's still my senator here in MA

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. you got that right

:kick:

[quiet.american]

14. Hell yes! :) nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. swiftboating was the biggest disgrace neocons ever brought on themselves

[quiet.american]

15. So right - and what's more disgraceful were the "patriot" rank-and-file Republicans who lapped it up

Remember this piece of work?




D I S G R A C E F U L !

[Jeffersons Ghost]

17. they're "neocons" not republicans

[quiet.american]

19. "A rose by any other name..." is still an idiot who lapped up the "swiftboat" crap. nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

21. exactly... there's no such thing as Republicans like Ike anymore...

true fiscal conservatives instead of neocon freaks

[Scuba]

5. At one point it was reported...

...that Kerry's proposed bill had tax rebates for Big Oil. Can anyone confirm or deny?

thx,

Scuba

[obxhead]

10. good question.

if nothing else there has to be a section of this bill on the oil industry as it is a robust energy bill. Off to go hunting for info on it.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. it wouldn't surprise me big oil already gets special treatment....

some concessions are expected when a bill gets passed.

[blm]

7. Well, that will piss off Schumer. heheh good!

About time environmental issues are made a PRIORITY in DC.

[DevonRex]

12. That's great. Thank you. K&R nt

[marshall]

20. I was afraid he was announcing that he and Teresa were splitting up

Al and Tipper really floored me.