Posted on 06/10/2010 2:37:56 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Let’s see how Senator Ma’am’s priorities work in this revealing clip from her speech earlier today in the Senate. We’ve had four terrorist attacks in less than a year, two of which succeeded in killing people and another two which only failed because of the incompetence of the terrorist. Iran is a year or less away from getting a nuclear weapon. Turkey is rapidly sliding towards Islamism. North Korea is doing their best to restart the Korean War.
And what keeps Barbara Boxer awake at night? A raging case of the vapors:
I’m going to put in the record, Madam President, a host of quotes from our national security experts who tell us that carbon pollution leading to climate change will be over the next 20 years the leading cause of conflict, putting our troops in harm’s way. And that’s why we have so many returning veterans who want us to move forward and address this issue, so we can create those new technologies that get us off this foreign oil.
This hyperbole comes from a desperate attempt to get her colleagues to push her cap-and-tax bill forward in the Senate, and the ridiculous claim that CO2 will somehow outweigh a nuclear Iranian mullahcracy and a global Islamist network for national-security concerns shows just how desperate Boxer has become. It won’t work, however. Democrats already won’t come out in public during recesses, thanks to voter anger over their profligate spending and the egg they’ve laid on the economy. They’re not going to charge forward on an economy-killing energy tax that will stifle what little growth we have at the moment, certainly not just a few months before the midterm elections. Heck, even Lindsey Graham has lost interest in global-warming policy:
On Tuesday, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham told reporters that he would vote against the climate bill he helped author. Now he’s going one step further. Graham, one of the few Republicans who claimed to care about climate change, now says global warming is no big deal.
Graham appeared on Wednesday at a press conference with Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), who was rolling out his own energy bill, a measure that relies heavily on expanding nuclear power and raising fuel economy standards without putting a cap on carbon dioxide emissions. Yesterday, Graham said he didn’t think any energy bill could get 60 votes this year because oil drilling has become too controversial. Today he decided, at the last minute, to back Lugar’s bill.
Reporters asked Graham several times about why he was supporting Lugar’s bill, when just a few months ago he had argued that the Senate shouldn’t pass a “half-assed” bill that lacked hard restrictions on carbon emissions. Graham replied that he now doesn’t think pricing carbon is that important. “The science about global warming has changed,” he noted, offhandedly. “I think they’ve oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they’ve been alarmist and the science is in question,” Graham told reporters. “The whole movement has taken a giant step backward.”
If cap-and-tax was on life support before now, Graham’s reversal pulls the plug. No wonder Boxer has a case of the vapors over, er, vapor.
Carbon DIoxide?
Maybe Carbon MONoxide but not DIoxide.
She flunked High School Chemistry, right?
.... In the Gore household.
If she really feels that way perhaps she should cease exhaling immediately.
Botoxer should go on monster quest and search for Al Gore warm CO2 blanket.
Funny thing is Green Houses need impermeable roofs to be, well you know be, real green houses...
That volcano in Iceland has already spewed more gases out than the human race has in it’s history. How do they plan to get it to buy carbon credits?
The reason CO2 has increased and become a danger (I am just kidding here, I know it is not) is all the idiot leftist politicians flapping their gums about the subject.
Tell them all to STFU and we will be OK.
The moonBeam Atty Gen of California ...now running for Governor ...used the tactic in changing the wording on a referendum appearing on the November ballot out here.
If Carbon Dioxide is a problem, Babs, then why don’t you do your part and STOP BREATHING!
Boxer is a left wing tool
One more reason Fiorina must beat her.
Larry Kudlow : Carly Fiorina, Woman for the Future
See History starting with Maurice Strong...followed by Al Gore.and the Indian Guy.
“Boxer: Carbon dioxide will be “leading cause of conflict” in next 20 years”
Are there any democrats in office that are NOT certifiable short-bus nominees?
uh....no.
Cavron. Pure BS. The fight will be over water.
Is carbon dioxide the new codeword for progressives?
She could just stop breathing.
Let her keep opening her mouth (proves how stupid she is)....better for us in the elections.
She has money on it, is dumb as a rock.
Carly’s looking better every day
Bounce Boxer!
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