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I skimmed the article enough to know his premise:

Global warming is real (wrong, ZERO warming for the past 15 years, zilch, nothing, nada).

IF it (this made up, unscientific proposition that the earth is getting warmer) is man made, we should use conservative economic principles to deal with it.

I'm sorry, the premise is from la la land. It's not real, it's demonstrably not real, and all we have to do is start repeating that one fact.

Ironically, traditional Republican opposition to climate change proposals actually improves the chances that a clean, revenue-neutral carbon tax could be signed into law without all the big government add-ons that would otherwise be thrown in by Democrats. If we just come to the table, Republicans can lead on climate change and the American people will be with us.

No one seems to be reading the article. The point here is that even if global warming were real and man-made, the wrong people are using the issue to promote their economic policies.

This is typical GOP "play nice" half measure appeasement to avoid arguing and criticism. I did read the whole article. The GOP constantly get tricked into arguing details about a false premise. George Bush should have conceded that "privatization" of Social Security is what he was proposing and moved on to why it was a good idea. The immigration bill presumes that ALL illegals will voluntarily come forward to report, pay their fines, go through the legal trouble and start paying taxes. Republicans argue about solutions too often and never challenge the perceived "problems" that democrats are hell bent on solving. We want to debate how best to address gun control instead of denying that citizen gun ownership is a 2nd Amendment right and there is no issue except with CRIMINALS.

This "staffer" who is writing anonymously on behalf of his politician boss is floating an idea to test reaction. It is compromise. We don't have the fortitude to actually take over an issue and lead ON ANYTHING. Republican politicians cower the first time any MSM fires a criticism at them.

I support, instead, Republicans admit to being DENIERS. We we indeed deny that human behavior has any more affect on global climate change than we do on affecting the sea level by putting boats on the ocean. Nothing has been tested and proven scientifically that shows humans have ANY measurable affect on global warming or cooling. We should not regulate energy and raise taxes to experiment with policies based on a false premise and flawed science.

The earth heats - it cools - been going on like that for millions of years. It’s a self correcting system. If it wasn’t life would have ceased to exist long long ago.

Dems use this scam to gain control and funds. Even if we could join up with the Madoff’s of the world - the scammers and liars - there’s ethical questions to deal with.

Would you like us to push a lie about unicorns damaging the world - and how everyone has to give control to Republicans to save themselves? Isn’t that kind of unethical? I don’t want to ‘get in on the action’ of ripping people off ... this is sick.

“No one seems to be reading the article. The point here is that even if global warming were real and man-made, the wrong people are using the issue to promote their economic policies. “

The classic mistake made over and over by the right is allowing the left to set the narrative on an issue and then attempting to argue for a less draconian solution.

Do not accept the left’s narrative in the first place.