Les sénateurs républicains plus rusés que les démocrates

Les sénateurs démocrates croyaient piéger leurs collègues républicains sur la question du réchauffement climatique. Le GOP compte dans ses rangs bon nombre de négationnistes et on tentait de les obliger à reconnaître le réchauffement climatique et le rôle de l'activité humaine dans le phénomène.

 "In a complicated maneuver that was the first politically perilous test for Senate Republicans, the new majority party split up the votes that Democrats had hoped would force the GOP into an awkward roll call on whether they believed in the science behind climate change — just hours after President Barack Obama slammed Republicans in his State of the Union address for dodging the issue.

But Republicans made an eleventh-hour change in strategy on two Democratic attempts to divide them — with Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, their most vocal denier of humans’ effect on the climate, joining a leading liberal in a symbolic vote on whether global warming is “real and not a hoax.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/senate-climate-change-vote-114463.html?ml=m_po