by Laryn

William Kristol thinks the health care debate scheduled for this weekend should be called on account of snow:

There’s a really big snowstorm coming to D.C.tonight. It would be unsafe to ask all the staffers and Hill employees who’d be needed at the Capitol if Congress stays open all hours this weekend, as Harry Reid intends, to drive to and from work–especially since many will have to do so at night, and they won’t be well-rested. So from the point of view of public safety and personal well-being, Ben Nelson can do everyone a favor, announce today he won’t vote for cloture, and let everyone stay home this weekend.

Furthermore, Harry Reid is maniacally insisting on a Christmas Eve vote on a bill whose final text no one has seen yet. So from a good government point of view, Nelson can say that he feels he has to be against cloture.

There is a clear need for “End the snow job” quips.

Let’s go to the National Weather Service advisory:

…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 AM
EST SUNDAY…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A
WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT

TONIGHT TO 6 AM EST SUNDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN
EFFECT.

* PRECIP TYPE…SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS…HEAVY SNOW WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES
THROUGH SUNSET SATURDAY. LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE…

MAINLY IN OR NEAR SOUTHERN MARYLAND. ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS
EXPECTED SATURDAY NIGHT.

* TIMING…SNOW WILL BEGIN LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING.

* TEMPERATURES…UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S THROUGH THE EVENT IN THE

BALTIMORE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA…MID TO UPPER 20S ACROSS
WESTERN MARYLAND.

* WINDS…10 TO 20 MPH THROUGH THE EVENT…WITH GUSTS OF 25 TO
30 MPH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW…
SLEET…AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO
POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.

Most cities would consider that to be a lot of snow.

Reid *Must* Secure 60 Votes by Midnight Tomorrow Or He Won’t Make His Christmas Eve Deadline

Report: And Lieberman’s Already Gone Back to Connecticut for the Weekend!
—Ace

While a lot of people are focusing on Christmas Eve, the key vote will be that first cloture vote on Monday. If he gets 60 votes on that, the rest of the process will be a mere technicality.

So, while it sounds dramatic, the future of the nation’s health care system may be decided in the next 34 hours.

Can Al Gore save us? Someone, who sends the story, says DC might get shut down due to snowfall over the weekend.

7:30 AM Tomorrow? Rich Lowry adds the motion must be introduced by 7:30 AM tomorrow.

Corrected: Introduced, not voted for cloture on. Not apparently any conflict between him and Klein. I misunderstood someone’s tip.

And Lieberman’s Already Headed Out of Town: Does that mean no 60? I think it does.

also:

Proud Flag-Waving Communists and Socialists March in Copenhagen to Stop Global Warming

Finally:

Obama’s “Unprecedented” Accomplishment At Cophenhagen….A Non-Binding Treaty

from Flopping Aces

Wait till the headlines adorn our newspapers about the triumph of the man-made global warming fanatics and Obama in coming to a agreement at Copenhagen.

Of course, it’s non-binding, meaning no one has to do anything:

President Barack Obama announced Friday a “meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough” on a global effort to curb climate change. But Obama said, “It is going to be very hard, and it’s going to take some time” to get to a legally binding treaty.

The ego on this man is blinding. Unprecedented? Dude, it’s NON-BINDING!

President Barack Obama, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma have agreed to a political “accord” that the official said will “provide the foundation for an eventual legally binding treaty.”

In the accord, the official said, “nations will list their actions and stand behind them.”

World leaders were looking to President Obama to help break a deadlock at the climate conference in Copenhagen, but prospects had looked bleak as White House officials indicated that Chinese officials were refusing to budge on their refusal to allow a transparent verification system, a stance that would have made a deal difficult to achieve.

Of course Obama will ensure our economy is further weakened by “standing behind” the accord….India and China, not so much.

…Many environmentalists, as well as leaders from both Europe and the developing world, have said they are disappointed there will not be a legally binding treaty finished here in Copenhagen. To delay it until 2012, as the new drafts states, could cause a major outcry from some groups.

The proposal, a political statement labeled “the Copenhagen Accord,” also lacks the kind of independent verification of emission reductions by developing countries than the United States and others are insisting on. It calls upon the world’s nations to collectively reduce their emissions 80 percent by 2050.