Politics can be a little confusing at times. This article almost made it seem like a popularity contest, and not just with voters, but among the politicians as well. They go back and forth seeing who they can get on "their side", meanwhile they are betraying others in order to get ahead. It reminds me a little of the reality television show Survivor. Politicians will appear to be on a certain side, then switch at the last moment. In Obama's acceptance speech he claimed that "Energy we have to deal with today, health care is priority No. 2". By having six republicans on their side before voting took place for the bill they did not foresee an issue with it being passed, or so they claimed. So why was it not passed? How did climate change become so unimportant to Obama and the other lawmakers? Why have they decided to put it on the back burner? After all the hard work they put into developing the comprehensive bill that they did, it is hard for me to believe that they wouldn't do anything it took to get it passed, especially when they appeared to be so passionate about it. Or were they? All of the politicians involved in writing the bill, John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman, seemed as though they had an alternative motive for writing it. They all had a negative stigma attached to them at that time in the eyes of their colleagues and voters. Maybe they did it to have a more positive persona, or make scientists and voters believe they are acting on the subject to shut them up for awhile. I personally think that behind all politics is just a popularity contest among greedy, self gratifying liars.
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