Posted on 02/23/2010 12:09:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is comparing climate change skeptics to those who disregarded the Nazi threat in America in the 1930s, adding a strident rhetorical shot to the already volatile debate over climate change.
"It reminds me of an event that took place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s," said Sanders, perhaps the most liberal member of the Senate, during a Senate hearing Tuesday. "During that period of Nazism and fascism's growth-a real danger to this country and democratic countries around the world- there were people in this country and in the British parliament who said 'don't worry! Hitler's not real! It'll disappear!"
Sanders' Nazi comparison is sure to enrage Republicans who are already skeptical of the science behind climate change. But Sanders wasn't the only one throwing bombs at a hearing that was ostensibly about the EPA's fiscal 2011 budget. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who has called global warming a "hoax," is asking for an investigation into the science used in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the governing body on climate science.
Earlier in the hearing, Inhofe had chided Sanders: "I know the senator from Vermont wants so badly to believe that the science on climate change is settled but it's not."
The heated exchanges came as EPA administrator Lisa Jackson sparred with lawmakers over her agency's decision to regulate greenhouse gases, something that Senate Republicans — and some Democrats — have opposed.
"How can you justify doing something administratively that was overwhelmingly rejected by the United States Senate and say defiantly 'we don't care what you say, Congress, we're going to go ahead and do it under the clean air act," Inhofe asked.
Jackson said her agency was in its right to regulate carbon.
"The supreme court said the EPA must make the determination whether or not greenhouse gases are harmful to the public welfare. Rather than ignore that obligation I chose as a public administrator to make the order," Jackson replied
Bernie is seriously demented, but everyone knows that already (except in Vermont).
Yawn.
These are coming very close to fighting words.
And I mean literally.
Yeah? And who gave you that right, and what the heck is your expertise?
Isn’t he a Commie sympathizer?
Commies killed more than the Nazis...
Bernie Sanders is a hoax denier.
I guess this makes Bernie a Global Warming Hoax Denier.
Godwin’s Law!!!
As a socialist Sanders has as much in common with Nazi’s as holocaust deniers.
Yeah, Bernie, and you remind me of Josef Goebbels. See how easy that is?
no! no! no! no! no!
They don’t get to change the name mid-stream... it’s not “climate change” it’s “global warming” and it is caused by too much carbon diaoxide heating the atmosphere.... remember?
Ok... now... as I de-ice my windshield this morning in TUCSON ARIZONA - what was his point again???
And you bloody well better believe those are fighting words.
Bernie Sanders eats live babies.
The climate scam deniers are a hoot.
Government agencies do not have rights, they have POWERS. If this person actually used the word "right" or "rights" then she should be fired for that alone.
I think it might be prudent to point out that Hitler never, not in the 30s or thereafter, posed a direct threat to the U.S. We wouldn’t have enjoyed our various trading partners being eliminated. But, what, were the Nazis never going to trade with us? Even the evil Soviet leaders were capitalist at heart. So happens they wouldn’t let their people join in. But, hey, that hurts them, not us.
Okay, it does hurt us, too. But not directly, as I indicated.
The science is settled: Bernie Sanders causes cancer.
Sure, we don’t have 100% clear proof, but we mustn’t wait until it’s too late. Remember those who denied that Nazism was a threat in the 1930s! If you don’t get rid of Sanders now, you’re just like the Nazi deniers.
When you can control whether or not or how much energy someone uses,
you pretty much control everything about their life.
She’s saying that she’s in the right to have that power?
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