Obstructionist Democrats
Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 02:07
in Mathematics & Economics
A national renewable energy standard has been proposed in the Senate, and the main opposition is coming from Democrats.Expectations were low going in to Congress' brief preelection session, and on Tuesday, Congress lived down to them in high style: Republicans in the Senate blocked a defense spending bill containing amendments that would have given undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a pathway to citizenship (the DREAM Act) and repealed the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay service members. Yet even as the fondest hopes of progressives were going down in flames, a bipartisan group of senators rose to promote an initiative long cherished by environmentalists.