Sunday's reporting on Friday's passage of the House climate change bill, at least in the New York Times , seemed a bit odd (check it here ). The first paragraph of the article says: " Democrats...were dogged by a critical question: Has the political climate changed since 1993?" That's kind of dumb thing to write. Regardless, Republicans appear miffed that the bill passed (I assure you there a number of liberal environmentalists who are livid as well) and were in such a tizzy that they harkened back to the BTU tax malaise Bill Clinton struggled with in 1993, which some believe backfired on the Dems, providing conservatives the political fodder they needed to jump start Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract with America." Republicans are said to have chanted, "BTU, BTU, BTU" as the bill passed in Congress on Friday (ironically, I had a dinner conversation that same night about how annoying it is when inept, losing
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