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McCain Says He ‘Can’t Divine’ Why Some GOPers Deny Climate Change
Talking Points Memo ^ | September 10, 2017 | Esme Cribb

Posted on 09/10/2017 5:05:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday said he can’t guess why some fellow Republicans deny the scientific consensus that climate change exists and is affected by human activity.

“I don’t know because I can’t divine their motives,” McCain said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“There is things happening with the climate in the world that is unprecedented,” he added. “We have to understand that the climate may be changing and we can take commonsense measures which will not harm the American people.”

McCain also said an agreement President Donald Trump came to with Democrats for a short-term increase in the debt limit “was not an exercise in bipartisanship.”

“The Republicans leaders, Ryan and McConnell, were surprised to hear that he had cut this deal with Chuck and Nancy,” McCain said, referring to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and their Democratic counterparts House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

“The proposal that the President accepted, the speaker of the House had just categorically rejected,” McCain said. “So that’s not the way we need to do business.”


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; State and Local; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: climatechange; fakescience; globalwarming; mccain; weather
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because before climate change, it was global warming, and before that it was global cooling. Real crises don’t need to change their terminology.


21 posted on 09/10/2017 5:15:07 PM PDT by cotton1706
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Because Johnny they don’t divine.

“Deniers” understand cyclic events that happened, and have happened, and will continue to happen on this Earth.

Climate change has indeed been going on since the last ice age. Geologists have hard evidence that there were at least five previous ice ages before the last ice age. That is climate change. There is no denying it.

But suddenly we’re in another cycle and the scammers and the grifters are out in force and fleecing the lemmings for a monetary gain from another cycle that has occurred and will continue to occur on the dynamic planet that we inhabit. You McCain or the stupid one... or part of the scam.


22 posted on 09/10/2017 5:16:44 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, , just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because it’s a fraud, a scam, and a hoax, John.


23 posted on 09/10/2017 5:18:11 PM PDT by TBP (President Trump needs to reopen the criminal investigation of the IRS as soo0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one cares what McCain says anymore. He’s the HOPe’s designated loon.


24 posted on 09/10/2017 5:21:49 PM PDT by subterfuge (Save the monuments!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course climate changes. Duh


25 posted on 09/10/2017 5:22:35 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, John! I can’t divine your motives. There are things happening with illegal immigration in the United States that is unprecedented. Why don’t you understand that illegal immigration is having an adverse affect on the economic, social, political, and cultural character of our country and that we can take commonsense measures which will protect the American people?


26 posted on 09/10/2017 5:22:54 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A bubble just broke the surface of the DC Swamp and it had McCain’s foul stench. America is getting sick and tired of forking over our tax money over to these pseudo-science scammers and their government cronies.


27 posted on 09/10/2017 5:23:15 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: Bratch

That works with metal hangers and I can do it.


28 posted on 09/10/2017 5:23:50 PM PDT by madison10 (Praying for President Trump, Florida, Texas & Deplorables.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Right or wrong, I hope his brain cancer kills him quickly.


29 posted on 09/10/2017 5:24:18 PM PDT by brewcrew1965 (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: stevem

No!!
I don’t care how he goes, just GO AWAY ALREADY!!


30 posted on 09/10/2017 5:24:46 PM PDT by bantam
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To: McGavin999
They say a tumor in the area of the brain where McCains tumor was located affects judgement. They become unsound. So anything McCain says now is a result of his brain tumor.

So he has had this tumor for 30 years?

31 posted on 09/10/2017 5:24:49 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Sybeck1

32 posted on 09/10/2017 5:26:20 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because we’re smarter than you InSane.


33 posted on 09/10/2017 5:26:56 PM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cuz they don’t buy BULLSH&T McCain!


34 posted on 09/10/2017 5:31:27 PM PDT by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Saying the science is settled doesn’t make it so. Maybe they should try making their case with facts instead of eye rolling and intimidation. If they can.


35 posted on 09/10/2017 5:32:29 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (GrouchNewo))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
McCain has introduced more GlobalWarming legislation than any other congress critter.

McCain planning climate change tour

McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)

The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)

Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)

McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]

McCain Sides With Leading Dems on Global Warming (NH voter reminder ALERT

EIA's Analysis of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Change Bill Human Events

McCain's Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy - McCain's "Climate Stewardship Act" (S. 139), co-sponsored with Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.)

Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman –McCain Climate Stewardship Act - Heritage Foundation

Promising Vote on Global Warming - "But Mr. McCain, as we know, does not give up easily. ... He promises to be just as tenacious on this issue."

36 posted on 09/10/2017 5:32:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday said he can’t guess why some fellow Republicans deny the scientific consensus that climate change exists and is affected by human activity."

I think maybe John McPain's brain my be rotted with syphilis that he caught from one of the page boys in the closet...

37 posted on 09/10/2017 5:32:38 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Praying to God that your tumor becomes faster, stronger, more malignant, more metastatic and infinitely more painful, John.


38 posted on 09/10/2017 5:36:28 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

John McCain couldn’t think his way out of a wet paper bag!


39 posted on 09/10/2017 5:38:28 PM PDT by W. (What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
we can take commonsense measures which will not harm the American people.

Since no politician has a lick of common sense, who will determine what "common sense measures" are? I hate politicians with a purple passion.

40 posted on 09/10/2017 5:38:34 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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