After severely weakening the House climate bill in the spring, Collin Peterson has now reversed his position:

“First of all, this isn’t going anyplace in the Senate,” Peterson told a conservative talk radio show based in North Dakota, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “But if it did and we ended up with a bill that was similar to what came out of the House and that was going to become law, I would vote no.”

Peterson, who prides himself on doing the bidding of industrial agriculture corporations, never intended to support climate legislation on final passage. He lended the measure his support in the House in order to weaken it as much as possible, only to turn around and oppose it when it counts.

Democrats should seriously consider taking his Chairmanship of the Agriculture Committee away, since he is not negotiating in good faith with leadership.