Graham predicts climate change won’t pass Senate

South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham was among leading Republican Senators Sunday who criticized the House-passage of the climate change bill, “If that’s a victory, I don’t know what losing would be. You lost 40-something Democrats. The process was not changed. The process was beating people up to make them vote for something they really didn’t want to vote for.”Graham, on NBC’s Meet The Press, did not deny something needs to be done about climate change, “This idea of climate change is real, in my opinion. And the way you solve the problem is not some major tax on industry and the private sector. You join forces with energy independence groups and climate change groups to get a bipartisan bill.”

Graham says Democrats will defect in the Senate as well, ”The problem is, ‘red state’ Democrats are bailing out on the president’s agenda faster than Republicans.”