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McCain's "famous" BBQ house
Posted on 02/17/2010 9:31:59 PM PST by pissant
Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — who is facing a primary challenge from former right-wing GOP congressman J.D. Hayworth — played along with Fox News host Sean Hannity’s uninformed idea that the recent snow storms in the mid-Atlantic region disprove that the earth’s climate is changing. “I think they made some movie that showed that the earth was going to freeze over as a result of global warming. I never quite understood that,” McCain said.
Yesterday, a local Arizona conservative talk radio host told McCain that “80 percent” of global warming science “is based on fraud and misinformation.” Despite having previously refuted such nonsense publicly, McCain again remained silent. Pandering to the far right, the Arizona senator later said he “never” supported capping carbon emissions:
Q: If we knew then what we know today about these scientists and this fraud, would you still be in favor of capping carbon emissions at 2000 levels?
MCCAIN: I’ve never favored it at a certain level. I’ve favored reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the good of — I mean we all know that greenhouse gases are bad! But I’ve said, in order to achieve that we have to have nuclear power as a component of it.
Listen here:
In fact, McCain has actually co-sponsored cap-and-trade legislation. “We need a successor to Kyoto, a cap-and-trade system that delivers the necessary environmental impact in an economically responsible manner,” McCain wrote in a 2008 op-ed. And during the his 2008 presidential campaign, he delivered a major speech on his plan to address climate change. “A cap-and-trade policy will send a signal that will be heard and welcomed all across the American economy,” he said in the speech. And he specifically outlined his plan to cap carbon “at a certain level”:
McCAIN: We will cap emissions according to specific goals, measuring progress by reference to past carbon emissions. By the year 2012, we will seek a return to 2005 levels of emission…by 2020, a return to 1990 levels…and so on until we have achieved at least a reduction of sixty percent below 1990 levels by the year 2050.
Main house
McCain's "famous" BBQ house
Mclame is desparate! He’s been calling in lots of IOUs to step up and pat Juan on the back. He was just trying to convert the dems to conservatism when he was “reaching across the aisle”. He ain’t ready to hang out in Sedona full-time.
I like all the covered porches, trees and river. The Talisker Theory of Verified Civilization includes a lot of covered porches, trees and rivers.
Now if only McCain would retire and enjoy the view...
Hey McLame... The internet sucks, huh? You might want to check it out sometime. It’s like an encyclopedia that contains almost everything you’ve said in the last 20 years or so.
Dumbass
I have some property nearby. My only interest in his victory (aside from ABBO) is it might have boosted the property values in the area Of course, it didn't work that way for W's neighbors, lol.
Yup, just like Pravda in the Soviet days, the articles would begin with: Everybody knows that...
He doesn’t forget, he just hopes we will!
“McCain endorsers Fred Thompson and Sarah Palin will be thoroughly stained by this man before things are over.”
I agree with Rush on this, I don’t think there is much Sarah can do-she’s really in a no-win situation. It was Mclame that made her a national figure and in her book she has nothing but praise for him personally. I think most people will be pretty understanding of the fact that she ran for VP with him, so it would only make sense to endorse him.
Now if she were to go further than that and endorse Charlie Crist, Mark Kirk and Carly Fiorina, then she would have a big credibility problem. Endorsing Mclame, though, I don’t think that will hurt her.
A genuine RINO wouldn't flip-flop like that.
But maybe he would.
But then maybe he wouldn't.
Or maybe he did then, but doesn't now.
Listen, My Friends, that's a complex issue.
RINO = liar. It’s the only way they get elected. Will the people of Arizona fall for John’s bs again?
Neither and both at the same time...he’s the consummate politician who will be everything to everybody and say anything to get elected. In other words he has no core values or beliefs...whatever is the fad is what he is.
I think that's a correct assessment of McCain. It's why he's so infuriating to conservatives.
On the one hand, he's a war hero who served our country honorably, and on the other hand, as a Senator, he's supported a lot of measures that were indisputably bad for our country.
Add to that, the fact that he reserves his most strident attacks for fellow Republicans, and is constantly reaching across the aisle to his "friends", and you've got a clear case of Potomac fever.
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