Tricky Nick Rahall’s cap-and-trade love – Day 3

On Monday we discussed Tricky Nick Rahall’s 2007 vote for HR 2643, which called for a national cap-and-trade system. Yesterday we talked about how Rahall voted against the Waxman-Markey version of cap-and-trade because he preferred Barack Obama’s version.

Today we’re focusing on the time that Tricky Nick actually cast a vote for cap-and-trade when in 2009 he voted for Obama’s first budget. Here is what the Washington Post said about that budget:

“Congressional Democrats overwhelmingly embraced President Obama’s ambitious and expensive agenda for the nation yesterday, endorsing a $3.5 trillion spending plan that sets the stage for the president to pursue his most far-reaching priorities…The blueprints, however, would permit work to begin on the central goals of Obama’s presidency: an expansion of health-care coverage for the uninsured, more money for college loans and a cap-and-trade system to reduce gases that contribute to global warming.” (Washington Post, 4/3/09)

Yet another example of Tricky Nick selling out to the anti-coal interests that desperately want to keep him in Washington.