Why is the climate bill even on the table?

It really irritates me when a Republican talks like this. No Republican should be offering support for not even for something we all want, drilling for oil in Alaska. Man made global warming is a myth. The scientists lied and misled the public with faulty data.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) suggested Wednesday that the bar for her vote on climate legislation is high indeed: She wants oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the table.

“To secure my vote on a climate bill, we have to develop a good policy. In my mind that good policy would include ANWR as part of a domestic production title,” she told reporters in the Capitol.

Murkowski is considered a potential swing vote in the climate debate.

She has spoken of the threat global warming poses to Alaska, and signed on to a moderate cap-and-trade bill sponsored by Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Arlen Specter (D-Penn.) several years ago (Specter was a Republican at the time).

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are trying to craft a compromise climate change and energy bill that would include emissions limits and expanded domestic energy production – including new oil-and-gas development.

“In my mind, if we are going to really talk about those things that will allow us a greater level of independence when it comes to our oil production, you have got to have ANWR on the table,” Murkowski said.

It really irks me that she can be bought off so easily too. These two things should have nothing to do with each other. They should be completely separate bills not put together for one. That's the problem with Washington.

In order to get support for unwanted and harmful bills they put in a bunch of crap to make everyone happy.