Bloodless Coup

Will Collin Peterson and Big Agriculture-Funded Democrats Kill the Climate Change Bill?

This story has been bubbling up for a few days now. The ethanol lobby apparently fears the bill - and if there is any industry that's used to government handouts and protection from free-market forces it's Big Agriculture. In other words it's used to the government carving out protections for it, and it will use its abundant clout and money to force similar exemptions for itself here. Throw in the fact that many of the Democrats on this committee are unusually right-wing (albeit lovers of government subsidies and anti-free market) and the fact that several vulnerable Democrats are on this committee and this could present some real problems for the Democratic majority if Peterson is able to hold his committee members in line.