Posted on 03/29/2007 8:01:32 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Failed radio mouth and Senatorial candidate from Minnesota , Al Franken, told David Letterman on the set of the "Late Show" that the USA should reconsider approving the Kyoto Protocols because the treaty is good for the economy -- Despite that the ruinous treaty was voted down by a unanimous Senate vote in 1997 for the very reason that it would harm the economy.
To a fawning audience and a rapt host, Franken attacked Bush over the treaty that was voted down before he ever got to office, saying "One of the dumbest things that this president has said -- and that is a high bar -- is that if we abided by the Kyoto agreement, it would be ruinous to our economy. The opposite is true."
Franken went on to claim that the Protocls are actually good for the economy because cities that have voluntarily adopted the Protocols are seeing that "the air and water is cleaner and high-tech jobs were being created."
With his simplistic one size fits all explanation, however, Franken did not elaborate upon how these isolated successes in scattered cities would translate to the entire nation nor did he discuss the fact that some cities might not be as effected by the economic restrictions as others.
Franken claimed that we need to focus heavily on renewable energies saying we need massive new government programs to create them, programs similar to the Apollo space programs of the 1960s.
"We need to do an Apollo project in renewable energy," he said in reference to the NASA program that sent men to the moon. "We need to have biofuels, we need wind.""We need wind" he says? He seems to give us plenty of that.
Franken also voiced support for troop withdraws from Iraq, an idea that would give insurgents and terrorists reason for hope of their own eventual success.
Franken also said he supports the setting of a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in 2008. (Minn. Senator Norm)Coleman opposes a firm timetable for withdrawal, though he has criticized the Bush administration's strategy on the war.No news if, to be fair and balanced, David Letterman is going to give Senator Norm Coleman, Franken's opponent in the upcoming election, the same amount of time and opposition free attention that he gave Franken to come on the show and voice his positions.
I wouldn't hold my breath for that last one.
I had a liberal try that line on me. It's simple to refute but liberals being idiots they never think before speaking.
The reply to this is easy. If it is such a great economic boom, why exlude China, India and so many other countries? To "save" them from economic prosperity? If it brings such a great economic boom, why does there have to be a Kyoto protocol that forces countries to join? Wouldn't all countries be rushing to join the boom? Why does it have to be imposed?
If you took all of the world's rope, tied it together and attached a lead weight to the end, it would still be too short to plumb the depths of Al Franken's stupidity.
Al Franken is not stupid. His followers are.
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Ping me if you find one I've missed.
Just like what you're doing, education and activism.
Teach people about the Milankovitch Cycles, it's a climate model that actually accounts for the past climate changes like ice ages.
real climate scientists see the Milankovitch orbital changes and changes in solar output as the drivers for the observed climate changes, including this one. BTW if the theory is correct we will have 24,000 years of warmer climate until we start to slide into the next ice age. This will happen without Algor or Al Franken either.
puff puff pass, al.
As a socialist he can conclude nothing else.
If it is good for the economy, then no legislation is required. The market will ultimately move in that direction. Oh, wait, Liberals are only interested in governmental control of private markets.....
With that statement, Al makes the environazis' agenda clear for everyone to see. Yet, most Americans are to ignorant about economics and markets to even see it.
I though no First World Country really abided by Koyoto, it was just pledged to or something.
Enforced, it'd wreck any country's economy.
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