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BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, January 23, 2010 9:52:57 AM
Newly elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown is
getting his first test on capital hill from his counter part Senator John Kerry. They are renewing talks on the climate change bill and they are testing Browns former resolve.
Trying to win Brown’s support for a deal is part of the effort. As a Massachusetts state senator, he supported a regional program to cap emissions. But during his US Senate campaign he said the regional program did not work and expressed doubts about the science of global warming. As a result, he opposed the Democrats’ national emissions-cutting program that was championed by Kerry last year.
A Brown spokesman said yesterday the Senate’s newest Republican, who has not been sworn in, would not comment on a possible compromise.
Brown has had his center-left tendancies in the past and the democrats are wasting no time testing them. If anything they are just getting his past views out into the open. It is a good political move for the dems, but I believe also a move of desperation. The dems need some good news after getting pummeled last week.