Try one of these:
Posted on 06/03/2008 5:02:44 PM PDT by BloodOrFreedom
On the issue of “global warming,� conservatives are starting to look beyond the loyalty label—and look instead to the economic substance. That’s good news. Let’s just hope that it’s not too late to save America from being crushed by the deadening hand of Green ideology. Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president this year, seems to think that he is obligated to endorse Green legislation as part of his bargain with the liberal media establishment (he doesn’t seem to realize that the MSM will drop him for Barack Obama). And so McCain has endorsed the Lieberman-Warner “cap and trade� global warming legislation, now being considered by the US Senate. Of course McCain supports the bill, because it was once known as “Lieberman-McCain,� before McCain dropped his overt support, in favor of more covert support—McCain had to clinch the GOP nomination. But by any name, the Lieberman-Warner proposal is a $1.2 trillion tax increase, according to the Congressional Budget Office—and the true costs are likely to be much more than that. But leading conservatives are starting to read the fine print—and starting to react in print. Here’s Charles Krauthammer, writing in the The Washington Post on Friday, making fun of the pseudo-religion of the Greens: Under the headline, “Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment,� Krauthammer explains how environmentalism was a lifeline to leftists dispirited over the collapse of communism: “Just as the ash heap of history beckoned, the intellectual left was handed the ultimate salvation: environmentalism. Now the experts will regulate your life not in the name of the proletariat or Fabian socialism but—even better—in the name of Earth itself...
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Fixed it. When all the politicians on both sides are for it, it will take revolution to stop it. The system is dead. Just a question of how long it will take to rot.
* Cease all ethanol production. It takes away from food production and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. As diesel prices go up, the cost of farming tips the balance of cost to make ethanol a bad idea. Just say "no" to ethanol! Even Jimmy Carter says that diverting farm production from food to fuel is dumb – even HE gets it.
* Immediately create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and cease regional "boutique" blends which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Even if this is the "cleanest" blend, just make it ONE and be done with it. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful.
* Lift the restrictions in order to drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Encourage the petro industry to construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production for our newly-accessed oil in the CONUS.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful. Discrediting Algore should have been a slam-dunk a long time ago. Stop electing Reps who buy into the Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change Hoax. CO2 is not our enemy!
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Modular Reactors (or other similar modern designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design. Breeders are OK, but PBMR's are better. DO SOMETHING NUCLEAR to resolve energy problems.
* Use the residual heat from the reactors above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.
* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or cap the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer. The Federal government could compel the states (and locals) to cap the fuel taxes.
If you squint real hard, and read between the lines, the ‘manifesto’ will require the dismissal of all RINOs and LibDems and the election of some clear-minded conservatives to even consider any of the above.
I’ve been looking for a big enough clothespin for my nose on election day so that I will be able to vote for McLame. I really don’t think a big enough pin has been made.
Intresting to note Mike Savage is a Democrat campaign contributor. He will go down in history as the greatest political mole ever. Pretty obvious he was sent out to use Talk Radio against itself.
If you run for office, I will vote for you, campaign for you, donate to you. So will millions of others.
I’ve been looking for a big enough clothespin for my nose on election day so that I will be able to vote for McLame. I really don’t think a big enough pin has been made.
Try one of these:
That would be better but still not enough for me.
I am flattered but my wife says I'm not sleazy enough to run for office.
If you find a candidate that will even give the 'manifesto' a second look, I'd be surprised.
Criticize ethanol? NO! Use coal? NO! Expand nuke power? NO! Drill in the CONUS? NO! Allow more refineries? NO!
Once again, like Sosh-a-curity, the Dems want the ISSUE, not the SOLUTION! They are very good at that game!!!
If you need that a really big clothespin, you must be related to the Marx brothers!
All? Why not just reduce ethanol production to a level sufficient to match proper (glug glug) consumption?
Wonder how long it will be before they send "Enviormnetal Terrorists" like us to "reeducation camps"
It's only advantage is it give politicians an excuse to write nice fat subsidies checks to some of their special interest groups.
I think 10% is optimistic, but I hope you’re right. If it is, there is hope. The first revolution was driven by a much smaller percentage.
And I do not think it is exactly that Americans don’t care, it’s just that they don’t care for the one that is necessary, individual liberty, and they don’t care for that because it means they would have to be responsible for their own lives.
The American people no longer want freedom, they sold it out for, “security,” believing the government can provide it. By the time they discover it cannot, it will be to late.
Hank
The ‘manifesto’ will be so modified to reflect the clarity that the ethanol in question is to the tank, not to get tanked! The manifesto is robust, but always subject to tweaking. Thanks!
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