EDITORIAL: Skating on thin ice for climate change
Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 02/28/2010 12:57:37 PM PST by rabscuttle385
It is early evening on Capitol Hill, and I am sitting with Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, who, along with John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, is trying to craft a new energy bill — one that could actually win 60 votes. What is interesting about Graham is that he has been willing — courageously in my view — to depart from the prevailing G.O.P. consensus that the only energy policy we need is “drill, baby, drill.”
What brought you around, I ask? Graham’s short answer: politics, jobs and legacy. We start with politics. The Republican Party today has a major outreach problem with two important constituencies, “Hispanics and young people,” Graham explains:
“I have been to enough college campuses to know if you are 30 or younger this climate issue is not a debate. It’s a value. These young people grew up with recycling and a sensitivity to the environment — and the world will be better off for it. They are not brainwashed. ... From a Republican point of view, we should buy into it and embrace it and not belittle them. You can have a genuine debate about the science of climate change, but when you say that those who believe it are buying a hoax and are wacky people you are putting at risk your party’s future with younger people. You can have a legitimate dispute about how to solve immigration, but when you start focusing on the last names of people the demographics will pass you by.”
So Graham’s approach to bringing around his conservative state has been simple: avoid talking about “climate change,” which many on the right don’t believe.
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He proposes “putting a price on carbon,” starting with a very focused carbon tax...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
How anybody could vote for a guy who sounds like Gomer Pile and thinks like him too, is beyond me.
With enough time, heat and pressure, Miss Graham could be turned into a large charcoal briquette.
It’s a funny thing.
These guys blong to one of the most elite fraternities in this country. The fraternity of the Senate.
It makes me think long and hard when a Viet Nam hero like McCain calls a lousy back shooting yellow coward ( remember he shot a wounded Viet Cong in the back, an atrocity he should have been tried for. Then accused his fellow soldiers of atrocities.),who faked three medals and slinked home to join Jane Fonda and her Communist pals in protesting the war. he went to France to meet with the enemy, that alone should have gotten him charged with treason and executed. he lied about throwing away his medals, and had the nerve to call the real heroes of the Navy The swift boat sailors, liars, for exposing the truth about him.
If John McCain feels like that I have no compunction to saying, Eff John McCain.
John McCain is friendly with this guy and calls him FRIEND.
All I have to say is, you have bad taste in friends John, and may you enjoy your retirement.
All of that puts the U.S. in a position that war for oil or
complete economic collapse will be our only choices.
You can't frustrate every source of domestic energy
without consequences. Our enemies will blackmail us
to the extent that we are vulnerable to blackmail.
0bama, the Democrats and RINOs are leading us into a real war for oil.
A war we won't have the energy to fight.
A war we don't need to fight because we have our own resources.
If constant drumming of the green agenda, with no opposing view allowed for the entire term of one's "educational experience" ISN'T brainwashing, what is?
Where is the Club for Growth on a primary challenger for him?
And when he recently went to Clemson he practically had a little army protecting him from all the love from his constituents.
Can’t touch him for five years. But every time he ticks you off, send off a little donation to JD Hayworth.
EDITORIAL: Skating on thin ice for climate change
Global Warming on Free Republic
Sheesh. How must it feel to be the butt buddy for EVERYONE’s butt buddy?
Now, there evidently IS some value there, because after charging you for the privilege, if you don't throw away enough recyclables, the city then complains that you're costing them money!!! So they want to give you the costs, and keep the proceeds for themselves! No wonder the cost benefit analysis can't fail. Different parties are getting the costs and the benefits. Full steam ahead!
Wow. All are communist and terrorist infiltrating programs of stalking and destroying America... “in the name of diversity”.
We are run by corrupt idiotic creeps.
But the American people believe in diversity so long as they are among the favored diverse.
Few photos seem to inspire the Republican primary voters of AZ more than this one!
There must be some way to get that bastard out of the Senate NOW!!
not a bad idea :)
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