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Winds Of Political Change Beginning To Favor Republicans
Real Clear Politics (originally in USA Today) ^ | 8/28/06 | Michael Barone

Posted on 08/28/2006 8:56:25 PM PDT by Rawlings

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To: Rembrandt
GW did not reject the Kyoto Treaty.

Are you always this misinformed?

Published on Saturday, November 6, 2004 by the Associated Press
Bush Stands by Rejection of Kyoto Treaty
by John Heilprin
 

WASHINGTON - President Bush is holding fast to his rejection of mandatory curbs on greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming, despite a fresh report from 300 scientists in the United States and seven other nations that shows Arctic temperatures are rising.

This week, a four-year study of the Arctic will document that the region is warming rapidly, affecting global climates.

Scientists project that industrial gases such as carbon dioxide will make the Arctic warmer still, which would raise the level of the seas and make the earth hotter. The world's atmosphere now includes about 380 parts per million of carbon dioxide, compared with 280 parts per million in 1800, according to scientists.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Kyoto international climate treaty last week, which puts it into effect early next year without U.S. participation. The treaty requires industrial nations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases below 1990 levels.

"President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job, let alone the nearly 5 million jobs Kyoto would have cost," said James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Headed into his second term, Bush continues to believe he "made the right leadership choice" by repudiating the U.N.-sponsored pact negotiated in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, Connaughton said.


41 posted on 08/28/2006 9:58:03 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Rawlings
But please...you think the Democrats will solidify our borders. No Democrats=Safe Borders. Period.

I didn't say or imply that. The Democrats will not secure the border. But at least they're honest about it.

42 posted on 08/28/2006 9:58:52 PM PDT by Penner
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To: prov1813man

"It seems to me that every close market ought to be saturated with clips of lamont, sharpton, jackson, striesand, moore, conyers, pelosi, dean, reid and of course Hillary!, doing what they do and remind the voters it's not the local candidate they are voting for or against they are voting for the above group of traitorous nutbags to run the country."

Wall to wall, max dollars spent on running and re-running Reid gloating to comrades "We killed the Patriot Act."


43 posted on 08/28/2006 10:00:23 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Howlin

"GW did not reject the Kyoto Treaty.

Are you always this misinformed?"
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Semantics. Bush is not King and doesn't seek to be. He can't bless Kyoto and make it law for the U.S. If the President could do so, Klintoon would have done it. When did Kyoto come up for a Senate vote under GW?

Perhaps it's you who is misinformed about Constitutional law in the U.S.


44 posted on 08/28/2006 10:08:27 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: jrooney
Though the GOP is not handling immigration perfectly,...

Actually, they're not handling it at all.

45 posted on 08/28/2006 10:09:09 PM PDT by Penner
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To: Rembrandt

He CAN ask the Senate to reconsider it.

He didn't.


46 posted on 08/28/2006 10:09:40 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Rawlings

bump


47 posted on 08/28/2006 10:10:56 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (The only way to bring a permanent peace is to eliminate the permanent threat. - FReeper Optimist)
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To: Penner
Well, if you are a one issue person, I recommend you not vote republican. So in Nov., if we do lose the house and or senate (which I doubt), you will have no one to curse at because you would have done your donation to the cause.

You are right. I don't think they have arrested any business owners for hiring illegals, stopped catch and release, hired more border patrol, put the national guard on the border, voted to repair and extend fencing in some areas, etc. *sarcasm. Yep, nothing at all.

Donks would do allot less of this. More needs to be done and will be by republicans. Donks will cause heads to explode for retreating from the war on terror and leaving our borders open.
48 posted on 08/28/2006 10:16:27 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: Howlin

"He CAN ask the Senate to reconsider it.

He didn't."
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Why in the world would GW ask the Senate to reconsider Kyoto after they blew it out of the water. GW doesn't want them to ok it; it's international law intended to accomplish one and only one thing -- handicap the US!!


49 posted on 08/28/2006 10:31:47 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: jrooney
More needs to be done and will be by republicans.

Republicans have had plenty of chances to deal with immigration. They get what they deserve in November.

50 posted on 08/28/2006 10:35:43 PM PDT by Penner
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To: Porterville
Good advice!

Iowa Electronic Markets

51 posted on 08/28/2006 10:38:27 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Penner
So did democrats under Bill Clinton when they ignored the borders and the WOT.

Be careful what you wish for, unless you are a donk hopinf for GOP losses, because the damage that can be caused by a Pelosi house and a Reid senate will be far worse than frustration over one issue. They will give you many to cause headaches and heartburn.
52 posted on 08/28/2006 10:43:03 PM PDT by jrooney ( Hold your cards close.)
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To: Rawlings

If the Republicans want to win in a landslide, all they need is to say:

1. We will stop the Islamofascist tide.
2. We will stop the illegal alien invasion.

Everything else (Social Security, taxes, the economy,) is just background noise that is too complex for the average voter to get wrapped up in. Those are the two big issues that address our very survival now and for the next generations.

But they won't. Except for the House, they are throwing in the towel on the illegal alien invasion, even abetting it, and they are not very articulate on the war against Islamist terror.

Tonight on Lou Dobbs the Republican Congressional Campaign chairman got into a boring litany on tax credits, job growth, blah-blah-blah, without once touching on the big issues that are on every American's consciousnous.

They expect to win on that?

People are worried about getting blown up on airplanes, or watching their jobs and towns being taken over by uninvited aliens. Focus, you party apparatchiks!


53 posted on 08/28/2006 10:58:47 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: Rembrandt

Geez, misinformed AND dense.

Quite a package, aren't you?


54 posted on 08/28/2006 11:47:46 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Rawlings

Right now it looks as if the Republicans will hold the Senate but lose the House. I agree with the Freepers that say wait until after Labor Day. I find it hard to believe that the country is willing to accept Speaker Pelosi.


55 posted on 08/29/2006 1:15:59 AM PDT by Roy Tucker
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To: Rawlings

Like to see you correct for two reasons:
1)To help keep our country safe
2) to see folks like Cokie Roberts and Pelosi and Carville go berserk.


56 posted on 08/29/2006 2:58:40 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: Rawlings

The winds seem full of flatus IMO.


57 posted on 08/29/2006 4:10:55 AM PDT by tkathy (Einstein: Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.)
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To: RippyO
The only House democrat I can see losing is Boswell.

Just this week, the DNCC decided that Bos had enough funds on hand and also the power of the incumbency so they are not putting any more money into the Bos campaign.

I agree, Lamberti may very well take him out.

58 posted on 08/29/2006 4:15:51 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Rawlings

Heretofore, the only people fretting about the election has been the media. We all know what side they are on.

It's going to take more than conservative angst over spending and immigration to deliver power to the communists, oops, socialist, darn it all - I mean the democrats.


59 posted on 08/29/2006 4:17:10 AM PDT by IamConservative (Humility is not thinking less of oneself; humility is thinking about oneself less.)
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To: Rawlings

In order to say you are the party of change, you have to offer up a plan for what you want to change, and the Dems haven't done that. Until they tell the voters what they will do, they will be conDEMned to failure. Of course, if they told the voters what they really want to do, they would fail as well. They are on the wrong side of the creek.


60 posted on 08/29/2006 4:33:11 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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