Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Boxer: Carbon dioxide will be “leading cause of conflict” in next 20 years
Hot Air ^ | June 10, 2010 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 06/10/2010 2:37:56 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Let’s see how Senator Ma’am’s priorities work in this revealing clip from her speech earlier today in the Senate. We’ve had four terrorist attacks in less than a year, two of which succeeded in killing people and another two which only failed because of the incompetence of the terrorist. Iran is a year or less away from getting a nuclear weapon. Turkey is rapidly sliding towards Islamism. North Korea is doing their best to restart the Korean War.

And what keeps Barbara Boxer awake at night? A raging case of the vapors:

I’m going to put in the record, Madam President, a host of quotes from our national security experts who tell us that carbon pollution leading to climate change will be over the next 20 years the leading cause of conflict, putting our troops in harm’s way. And that’s why we have so many returning veterans who want us to move forward and address this issue, so we can create those new technologies that get us off this foreign oil.

This hyperbole comes from a desperate attempt to get her colleagues to push her cap-and-tax bill forward in the Senate, and the ridiculous claim that CO2 will somehow outweigh a nuclear Iranian mullahcracy and a global Islamist network for national-security concerns shows just how desperate Boxer has become. It won’t work, however. Democrats already won’t come out in public during recesses, thanks to voter anger over their profligate spending and the egg they’ve laid on the economy. They’re not going to charge forward on an economy-killing energy tax that will stifle what little growth we have at the moment, certainly not just a few months before the midterm elections. Heck, even Lindsey Graham has lost interest in global-warming policy:

On Tuesday, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham told reporters that he would vote against the climate bill he helped author. Now he’s going one step further. Graham, one of the few Republicans who claimed to care about climate change, now says global warming is no big deal.

Graham appeared on Wednesday at a press conference with Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), who was rolling out his own energy bill, a measure that relies heavily on expanding nuclear power and raising fuel economy standards without putting a cap on carbon dioxide emissions. Yesterday, Graham said he didn’t think any energy bill could get 60 votes this year because oil drilling has become too controversial. Today he decided, at the last minute, to back Lugar’s bill.

Reporters asked Graham several times about why he was supporting Lugar’s bill, when just a few months ago he had argued that the Senate shouldn’t pass a “half-assed” bill that lacked hard restrictions on carbon emissions. Graham replied that he now doesn’t think pricing carbon is that important. “The science about global warming has changed,” he noted, offhandedly. “I think they’ve oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they’ve been alarmist and the science is in question,” Graham told reporters. “The whole movement has taken a giant step backward.”

If cap-and-tax was on life support before now, Graham’s reversal pulls the plug.  No wonder Boxer has a case of the vapors over, er, vapor.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: barbaraboxer; boxer; california; co2; demagogicparty; globalwarminghoax; hydrocarbons; opec
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last
Video at :

A raging case of the vapors:Boxer Expounds on CO2

1 posted on 06/10/2010 2:37:56 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Carbon DIoxide?

Maybe Carbon MONoxide but not DIoxide.

She flunked High School Chemistry, right?


2 posted on 06/10/2010 2:40:04 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (SPEAK UP REPUBLICANS, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU YET! IMPEACH OBAMA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

.... In the Gore household.


3 posted on 06/10/2010 2:40:57 PM PDT by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If she really feels that way perhaps she should cease exhaling immediately.


4 posted on 06/10/2010 2:42:29 PM PDT by Apercu ("A man's character is his fate" - Heraclitus)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Botoxer should go on monster quest and search for Al Gore warm CO2 blanket.

Funny thing is Green Houses need impermeable roofs to be, well you know be, real green houses...


5 posted on 06/10/2010 2:42:31 PM PDT by Tarpon (Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PGR88

That volcano in Iceland has already spewed more gases out than the human race has in it’s history. How do they plan to get it to buy carbon credits?


6 posted on 06/10/2010 2:42:34 PM PDT by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The reason CO2 has increased and become a danger (I am just kidding here, I know it is not) is all the idiot leftist politicians flapping their gums about the subject.

Tell them all to STFU and we will be OK.


7 posted on 06/10/2010 2:43:23 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HighlyOpinionated
No,...this is part of the Leftists plan....to have the EPA classify CO2 as a pollutant....they are all on board with this tactic.

The moonBeam Atty Gen of California ...now running for Governor ...used the tactic in changing the wording on a referendum appearing on the November ballot out here.

8 posted on 06/10/2010 2:43:34 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If Carbon Dioxide is a problem, Babs, then why don’t you do your part and STOP BREATHING!


9 posted on 06/10/2010 2:44:15 PM PDT by kosciusko51 (All hail "Princess Obama" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2531677/posts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Boxer is a left wing tool

One more reason Fiorina must beat her.

Larry Kudlow : Carly Fiorina, Woman for the Future

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2010/06/10/carly_fiorina_woman_for_the_future_98506.html


10 posted on 06/10/2010 2:45:23 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: OldMissileer
This is all about the UN's plan to collect money for furtherance of Global Governance....

See History starting with Maurice Strong...followed by Al Gore.and the Indian Guy.

11 posted on 06/10/2010 2:45:42 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Boxer: Carbon dioxide will be “leading cause of conflict” in next 20 years”

Are there any democrats in office that are NOT certifiable short-bus nominees?


12 posted on 06/10/2010 2:46:06 PM PDT by Grunthor (Getting married, T minus 16 days.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HighlyOpinionated
Well, I'd have to agree with her that CO2 is putting our troops in harm's way. Too many of our enemies are still emitting it. I suggest we allow the troops to make them more "carbon-neutral."
13 posted on 06/10/2010 2:47:19 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Grunthor

uh....no.


14 posted on 06/10/2010 2:47:27 PM PDT by Ann Archy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Cavron. Pure BS. The fight will be over water.


15 posted on 06/10/2010 2:47:27 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Is carbon dioxide the new codeword for progressives?


16 posted on 06/10/2010 2:47:46 PM PDT by twhitak
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

She could just stop breathing.


17 posted on 06/10/2010 2:48:06 PM PDT by Colvin (Proud Owner '66 Binder PU, '66 Binder Travelall,)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Let her keep opening her mouth (proves how stupid she is)....better for us in the elections.


18 posted on 06/10/2010 2:48:22 PM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

She has money on it, is dumb as a rock.


19 posted on 06/10/2010 2:48:31 PM PDT by boomop1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Carly’s looking better every day

Bounce Boxer!


20 posted on 06/10/2010 2:48:36 PM PDT by twistedwrench
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson