Senator Sessions on Lieberman-Warner

U.S. Senate Committe on Environment and Public Works ^ | June 3, 2008 | Senator Sessions

[Lancey Howard]

Senator Sessions has always been one of my favorite Senators.
This is why.

[DarthVader]

This man should be McCain’s running mate.

[Maceman]

Gee, and all the Freepers laughed at me when I proposed, a year or so ago, that we need a an “American Climate Protection Amendment” to the US Constitution, whereby the government is specifically prohibited from making any law, regulation or executive order, or imposing any tax, for the purpose of changing or regulating the climate of the planet.

It’s the only way to preserve our natural liberties from the relentless onslaught of the global warming debate deniers, who continue to deny the indisputable fact that there is lots of scientific debate about global warming, and continue to pursue their half-baked social engineering redistributionist agenda despite the many, many credentialed scientists who reject the man-made global warming hypothesis outright.

Even if such an amendment is politically impossible, a serious debate on its merits would do much to put the pro-global warming policy makers where they belong — which is on the defensive.

I call them “pro-global warming” because they desperately want anthropogenic global warming to be real in spite of scientific evidence to the contrary, and they will not give up their draconian interventionist legislative agenda until we pry it from their cold, (legislatively) dead fingers.

[Delacon]

“So I have concluded that the cap-and-trade program is not going to work. It just will not work. It will create more lobbyists than ants in our country. It will, without doubt, sharply raise the cost of gasoline and electricity in America. It will make American businesses less competitive in the world, and it will surely damage our economy. It will also be, as everyone who looks at it will admit, a secret, sneaky tax. It is a tax of about $7 trillion on the American people, with the money going to some sort of funds and unelected persons to be spent in ways that we are not able to know right now how it will all be spent.”

[Jo Nuvark]

Mr. Smith has finally returned to Washington.
Hallelujah!!!

[caisson71]

I hope that opposition to this Bill will flush out the real Republican leaders in Congress and give us a fresh look at the leaders we should be supporting.

[Biblebelter]

Jeff Sessions represents the one per cent of common sense that exists in the body composed of him and 99 malevolent elitist morons known as the United State Senate. As sobering a thought as that is, it is even more sobering to understand that the next POTUS will come from the cesspool of 99.

[Maceman]

Let’s not forget that Mr. Smith’s pet cause was to have the federal government fund a boys’ camp.

He wasn’t exactly a raging conservative.

[Flycatcher]

I'm with Senator Sessions most of the way. But this kind of stuff concerns me:

We need to reduce CO2 global warming gases.

Sigh...! It sounds like even Sessions has swallowed the "CO2 causes warming" myth.

[La Enchiladita]

It’s well and good that he opposes cap and trade; however, why so gung-ho about hybrids and “alternative” fuels, especially ethanol which is costly to produce?

He gives slight mention to nuclear energy and none to drilling for our own domestic oil.

It is sad when the last of the conservatives seem to buy into all these New Age ideas about “energy.”

But, more than that, the rage for hybrids makes me very uneasy. Their production could easily become a government mandate.

[Das Outsider]

It is sad when the last of the conservatives seem to buy into all these New Age ideas about “energy.”

Yep, it isn't just wishy-washy Queegster types, either. When now-Reverend of the Church of a Different Green, Pat Robertson, finds common cause with Al Gore, one has to wonder.

Scientific illiteracy knows no bounds. Couple that with what has proven to be an overwhelmingly successful PR and marketing campaign, and you are now talking about an avalanche of daily mass media-driven exhortations to "go green," in whatever form one chooses. It's a lifestyle, don'tcha know?

Who will resist?

[4integrity]

‘Senator Sessions has always been one of my favorite Senators.’

Sessions is a patriot and honest man. Agree, he should be McCain’s VP.....don’t know why his name hasn’t been mentioned. Sessions is much, much better than Crist, Jindal and few others mentioned. imho, Romney would be good VP but too many are hung up on his faith.

[Jo Nuvark]

I believe he was asking for a loan to buy 200 acres in Willet Creek for a boy’s camp. It wouldn’t cost the taxpayers a penny because the boys would pay the government back. But corrupt Senator Taylor has schemed to profit from that land by pushing a dam bill through the Senate.

SENATOR TAYLOR
We can’t drop it now, Joe. We bought the land around this (Willet Creek) Dam and we’re holding it in dummy names. If we drop it or delay it—we are going to bring about investigations, and investigations will show that we own that land and are trying to sell it to the State under phoney names. No, Joe, in my judgment the only thing to do is push this Dam through—and get it over with.

JEFFERSON
Well—for a couple of years now—I— I’ve thought it would be a wonderful thing to have a National Boys’ Camp out in our State—

VOICES
A camp! Well!

JEFFERSON
You see—if we could take the poor kids off the streets—out of cities— a few months in the summer—learn something about Nature and American ideals—

NOSEY
Marvelous! And what would this camp set the Government back?

JEFFERSON
Oh—nothing—nothing. My idea is— for the Government to lend us the money—and the boys’ll pay it back— sending in a penny or a nickel—no more than a dime—no, gosh—the Government’s got enough on its hands without—

JEFFERSON
(picking up again) Yeah. This land to be bought by contributions from the boys. You have that. Money to be—

[Christian4Bush]

mark for later

[Das Outsider]

But corrupt Senator Taylor has schemed to profit from that land by pushing a dam bill through the Senate.

Where's Randy Quaid when you need him?

[Jo Nuvark]

[... It’s a lifestyle, don’tcha know?...]

It’s a religion, don’tcha know?

[Jo Nuvark]

[... dam bill ...]

So many thoughts, so little time.

[Jo Nuvark]

Randy Quaid... Doesn’t his son work for the circus barking for the yak lady?

[Delacon]

"I'm with Senator Sessions most of the way. But this kind of stuff concerns me:                                           We need to reduce CO2 global warming gases.        Sigh...! It sounds like even Sessions has swallowed the "CO2 causes warming" myth."

 

Well CO2 is a greenhouse gas. It does contribute to what keeps our globe warm. As to the magnitude of the effects of its increase due to human contributions, nobody has made a case IMHO. That said, I am all for energy independence for economic, national security, and yes environmental(not to be confused with global warming) reasons. A longterm reliance on carbon based fuels, isn't in our best interests(again IMHO). Aside from CO2 which frightens me not at all, carbon based fuels spew out myriad real pollutants and their acquisition has real environmental impacts. But hey, I am in no hurry. There hasn't been a time where environmental stewardship has been handled better in our country.  Let oil, coal, and natural gas compete in the market place as their prices go up, with alternatives whose prices have to go down. Just don't let Washington mandate anything. My one caveat is that we do something to switch from oil to natural gas and coal in forms that I can put in my gas tank. Otherwise we will end up handing up a portion of our GDP to the middle east eventually than we can not bear before the market switches to something else.  The market doesn't care if we go bankrupt, it just moves out of town.