Timothy McNulty | November 6, 2009
Pat Toomey takes a subtle dig at Arlen Specter in the Post-Gazette today -- by not mentioning him at all.
Toomey writes an op-ed in today's PG critcizing cap-and-trade legislation approved by a Senate committee yesterday, saying it will hurt Pa's coal, gas and manufacturing industries. Specter cast a vote in favor of the procedural motion, but Toomey doesn't even bother to mention that -- he goes after Joe Sestak instead, "against whom I am running for the U.S. Senate":
With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's blessing, California Sen.
Barbara Boxer and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry introduced a 923-page
draft of legislation to set up a so-called cap-and-trade program. The
program would impose an onerous indirect tax on the production and
consumption of carbon-based energy. It would cap the amount of carbon
dioxide businesses could emit, imposing a penalty when they exceed the
cap, and would require that carbon emissions be cut by 20 percent of
2005 levels by 2020.
. . . The cap-and-trade proposal is so harmful to Pennsylvania it has
garnered bipartisan opposition across the state. When a version of the
bill passed the House of Representatives last June, one third of
Pennsylvania Democratic congressmen joined all Pennsylvania Republicans
in voting against it. In all, 44 House Democrats across the country
opposed the bill in a truly bipartisan effort to stop this massive
job-killer.
Sadly, that bipartisan group does not include Pennsylvania Rep. Joe
Sestak, against whom I am running for the U.S. Senate, who voted for
the bill and even expressed regret that it did not go far enough.
Posted
Nov 06 2009, 09:20 AM
by
Timothy McNulty