Last month, I noted that House Minority Leader John Boehner had gone to battle against the Waxman-Markey bill with a bright blue board, designed without any logic other than to imply that cap-and-trade legislation is complicated.
That battle ultimately failed–the bill passed by a slim margin–but Republicans haven’t given up on the weapon. Via Grist, I see that Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) is taking up Boehner’s arms as the fight moves to the Senate.
There are some important differences, of course. Bond’s chart connects the brightly colored boxes with white lines, as opposed to Boehner’s less visible black lines. But broadly the chart remains the same. And presumably environmentalists are hoping it proves as effective in the Senate as it did in the House.
