Leader of the Nationals in the Senate Barnaby Joyce writes:
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Barnaby Joyce
Mr Rudd is today lauding the vote in the United States known as the American Clean Energy Act (otherwise known as the Waxman-Markey Bill) as the indelible truth and righteousness of his position.
So let’s have a close look at what actually happened with this vote.
More than 200 Democrats voted for it and 44 four voted against it.
In Australian parlance those 44 would be describes as ‘crossing the floor’, eight Republicans voted for it, likewise crossing the floor, in the other direction and 168 voted against.
The vote got through on a razors edge of 219 to 212.
Is Mr Rudd therefore endorsing the Democratic principal so well demonstrated in this vote that if you don’t believe in something you don’t vote for it?
Is Mr Rudd brave enough, if he truly believes in this principal and truly believes this global warming issue, to accord the people in his own party, who don’t believe in the Combet-Wong-Rudd Bill, to not vote for it on the premise that those on the other side of Parliament, who do believe in it, that they can.
Is Mr Rudd willing to have the Democratic principal break out in the way people vote or does he want the totalitarian dictate of what I say the Labor party must do and not only the Labor party but everybody else in the Parliament as well?
Don’t laud an American position if you don’t want to emulate the principals that brought it about.
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