How any thing gets done in Congress is a

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wonder to me. I just finished a long piece, from the "New Yorker" that is about a piece of legislation that will never be presented The three Senators who were to sponser it, a independent{former Democrat } a Democrat and a Republican and it sounds like it was a important piece of legislation, possible bite us badly in the butt in 50 years when the Obama care bill will just be another program we have or have not .

However this is not about the non bill. It is about how impossible it is to get a consensus for a major piece of legislation.
How many hoops one has to jump through, t's crossed, I's dotted and what it entails with the different interests through out the country and how we few here on this zone have no clue as to how the system really works.

I warn you it is long , but as all New Yorker pieces , very well written
and for the brave , think you will learn a lot, as you bang the desk or what ever in frustration.
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www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza?printable=true
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The Political Scene

As the World Burns

How the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change.
by Ryan Lizza

October 11, 2010 Lindsey Graham, Joseph Lieberman, and John Kerry each sought a kind of redemption through climate-change legislation.

April 20, 2010, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joseph Lieberman, along with three aides, visited Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, at the White House. The legislators had spent seven months writing a comprehensive bill that promised to transform the nation’s approach to energy and climate change, and they were planning a press conference in six days to unveil their work.

Kerry, of Massachusetts, Graham, of South Carolina, and Lieberman, of Connecticut, had become known on Capitol Hill as the Three Amigos, for the Steve Martin comedy in which three unemployed actors stumble their way into defending a Mexican village from an armed gang. All had powerful personal motivations to make the initiative work. Kerry, who has been a senator for twenty-five years and has a long record of launching major investigations, had never written a landmark law. Lieberman, an Independent who had endorsed John McCain for President, had deeply irritated his liberal colleagues by helping the Republicans weaken Obama’s health-care bill. Graham, a Republican, had a reputation as a Senate maverick—but not one who actually got things done. This bill offered the chance for all three men to transform their reputations.
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