Posted on 06/10/2010 2:37:56 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Lets see how Senator Maams priorities work in this revealing clip from her speech earlier today in the Senate. Weve 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:
Im 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 harms way. And thats 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 wont work, however. Democrats already wont come out in public during recesses, thanks to voter anger over their profligate spending and the egg theyve laid on the economy. Theyre 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 hes 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 didnt 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 Lugars bill.
Reporters asked Graham several times about why he was supporting Lugars bill, when just a few months ago he had argued that the Senate shouldnt pass a half-assed bill that lacked hard restrictions on carbon emissions. Graham replied that he now doesnt think pricing carbon is that important. The science about global warming has changed, he noted, offhandedly. I think theyve oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think theyve 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, Grahams reversal pulls the plug. No wonder Boxer has a case of the vapors over, er, vapor.
In other words .. you repubs just need to stop breathing!
Hey Linda!
The "science" isn't science.
Hey "Senator":
Since we've been reducing our "carbon footprint" for a couple of decades, it must be working...we're now freezing to death.
Guess we need to go back to the way it was...
Belch away!
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