Posted on 05/13/2008 9:14:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain called Monday for reductions in carbon emissions and criticized the Bush administration for failing to lead the fight against climate change.
"We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. … We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great," the Arizona Republican said in a speech delivered at a wind-energy facility in Portland, Ore. "The most relevant question is whether our own government is equal to the challenge."
McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, proposed a "cap-and-trade" system to reduce greenhouse gases and allow the sale of rights to excess emissions by firms that reduce their own emissions. ...
Such a system would "change the dynamic of our energy economy" by giving companies incentives to invest in alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, nuclear, clean coal, biomass and biofuels, McCain said, providing the United States with an energy supply "that is safe, secure, diverse and domestic."
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McCain's proposal falls short of those of Democratic contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. They both called for reducing emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, in line with what's recommended by most scientists, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"To his credit, Senator McCain wants to do something serious about global warming, but his proposal falls far short of what the science says we need to do today," said Gene Karpinski, president of the nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters. McCain's lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters is 24 percent. That compares with 87 percent for Clinton and 86 percent for Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
And what worse, we get the Democrats “Green” socialists dogmas from a “Republican” President implemented into law so when the economy takes it in the shorts, we get the blame for pushing the Democrat agenda.
Never been this disengaged from the political process in my life.
What ever happens in Nov the Average American working stiff is going to end up losing.
So-called "third way" politics is just a kinder, gentler version of fascism. I've taken the liberty to update the definition below (items in bold are my edits):
fas·cism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race the global community above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition through the courts.
It's a hold your nose vote this time. Voting for someone else just ensures that the RAT candidate has one less vote to counter. Remember what Ross Perot did in 1992? He took just enough votes away from Bush to give us Bill Clinton.
“and thought that he may just be the alternative to McShame.”
The Alternative To “McShame” is OBAMA. Nothing Else...
Are you old enough to remember 1990?
Well, I wasn’t going to vote for him anyway.
The country is not going to be saved, it’s a slow-motion train wreck. Most people don’t care what happens to this country anyway. It’s time to disengage.
Now all they have to do here to win the title is to shoot themselves. Simon has a shot. Bad luck, he misses. Nigel misses. Now there's Gervaise, and Gervaise has shot himself- Gervaise is Upperclass Twit of the Year. There's Nigel, he's shot Simon by mistake, Simon is back up and there's Nigel, Nigel's shot himself: Nigel is third in this fine and most exciting Upperclass Twit of the Year Show I've ever seen.
He was a hold my nose vote the minute he got the "R" nomination. The more he flaps his gums, the smaller the difference between him and the "D"s is getting. He lost me on this global warming crap.
Voting for someone else just ensures that the RAT candidate has one less vote to counter. Remember what Ross Perot did in 1992? He took just enough votes away from Bush to give us Bill Clinton.
I live in CA and voted for McClintock because I knew Arnold was a joke, and he's no different than having a "D" in office. At this point, there is no way I'm voting for McCain. I never belived until now, that I would ever vote 3rd party, but I am now, because I cannot bring myself to vote for a clown. I will be voting for Barr, Keyes, or Paul.
I can't believe I just wrote that.
When one speaks in Portland, Oregon and expects to draw an approving crowd, one addresses anything that appeals to the far left wing whackos who reside there. McCain probably picked up a few, but lost heavily to the minority - traditional conservatives - big time!
You are so right! That the perfect analogy
And if it does do serious damage, should we care?
The Congressional Budget Office says current cap-and-trade legislation would amount to a $1.2 TRILLION tax hike on the American economy over the next ten years.
Pssst! This is the biggest wealth distribution scheme ever concocted!
And when the country suffers as a result, the voters will take their anger out on McCain by voting against Republicans in the 2010 election--just as they did in 1990, after George H. W. Bush broke his "no new taxes" pledge.
I simply can not vote for this person. I despise him more than I ever thought possible, and really don’t know what I’m going to do come November.
If you have two candidates -- one of which will win -- then one of them, by definition, is the better candidate and one of them is the worse. As bad as McCain is, he is better than the eventual democrat candidate (be that hillary or Obama). That is not a winning campaign (at least our candidate doesn't suck as badly as the democrat), but that is all we've got right now.
He told Bill O’Reilly that he was against drilling the Artic because we MUST preserve pristine wilderness. O’Reilly gave it back to him and McCain looked like an idiot because his reason for not drilling is so stupid.
I wonder if anyone in the McCain camp reads FreeRepbulic?
If so, with his attitude, he will just blow off FR as a bunch of "extreamists."
Welcome to the club.
He was chosen by the elites that now run the world.
They cut a deal with him after 2000, guaranteeing him the nomination in 2008 if he would wait in relative silence until they could manipulate the masses via the Enemedia and work behind the scenes to change the rules that would push him to the forefront, IMNSHO.
He became the "candidate" by:
1. Allowing the Enemedia and elites to tell us who our candidate will be.
2. Allowing the Enemedia to conduct the "debates" which turned them into demonrat propaganda circuses.
3. Allowing the Enemedia to determine who the sheeple were permitted to see/hear during said debates.
4.Front-end open primaries where "independents" and cross overs made the choice.
5. Emphatically declaring the winner before more than 50% of the country had an opportunity to vote.
6.Last minute rule changes by the republican party that no one seems to know when or how these rules were changed.
7.Winner take all primaries when garnering 36% or less of the vote nets you 100% of the delegates.
8. Beginning the primaries an ungodly early 10 months before the general election and 8 months prior to the convention.
9. Penalizing states for changing their primary dates in an effort to have some voice in the crooked and cooked primary election.
10. And the ever popular...vote fraud!
And yet there is no outrage. There is no unified plan to take on the gross usurpation of our right to determine our leaders. There is no longer a government of, by and for the people. Now go back to sleep until November 5th.
What a jerk.
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