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.
Sounds like his constituents have taken him to the woodshed.
Boxer: Carbon dioxide will be “leading cause of conflict” in next 20 years
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I’m guessin’ sooner, once everyone figures out how bad they were duped and robbed.
Barbara Demento?
Conflict? Hell yes. The people won’t stand for it.
That woman needs to get to of the NITROUS Oxide.
Proof positive the liberal loons in our media are drinking the WH kool-aid when they fail to report that Babs is raging about carbon dioxide danger when her constituents have lost their jobs, their homes, their cars and sometimes, their families.
There is a complete and utter disassociation of democrats to take responsibility for the current economic fiasco our nation is in, and part of it is because of them, their stimulus bill, TARP, bailouts, and a determined effort to ram Cap and Trade and Amnesty up our kazoos.
When exactly are payment deductions going to take effect for Obamacare? Certainly not BEFORE November elections. Why isn't she expressing concern about the potential hardship THAT is going to cause her constituents and everyone else in America other than congress-critters and others not obligated to it?
Babs must have personal investments (ala Gore) or donors rabid that she represent them properly.
Watch her get re-elected here in CA. She could advocate that people eat their own excrement as an environmentally-friendly act and out here, she’d gain 7 points in the polls.
“Yeah! Let’s get rid of all that excrement in the environment, I’m for it! Go Barbara!”
fyi
If it’s the CO2 issuing from her fat stupid mouth, then yeah, and the conflict is already here. Thanks Ernest.
LOL! I agree.
Boxer needs to be defeated so she’ll have more time for rest and medication. The lady just isn’t right in the head.
See #33.
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The EPA had to lie to get this passed in the first place and the DNC goes along knowing its DOA in congress:
http://www.brayincandy.com/id197.html
Pray for AMerica
Tell me something my fellow FReeper.
Does it hurt to be as stupid as Babs Boxer?
She is an Idiot and needs a real job for a while to get back in touch with reality.
i’ll be glad when I don’t have to hear her name ever again.
She seems to be unaware of it...so it must not ...now what about those that vote her into the Senate....?
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