Posted on 06/17/2010 1:29:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Senator claims GOP follows Beck and Limbaugh, not science, on climate By Ben Geman - 06/17/10 01:57 PM ET
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Thursday that strong global warming legislation lacks 60 votes and claimed Republicans are paying attention to conservative media pundits rather than climate science.
"It is absolutely incredible and very, very sad — and I say this not from a political point of view — that a lot of very bright Republicans no longer pay attention to science and are much more interested in the rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck," he said.
Sanders spoke with reporters in the Capitol on his way to a meeting of the Senate Democratic caucus on energy and climate.
The meeting comes as Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is trying to craft an energy package to be brought to the floor this summer.
Sanders said that with "virtually" no Republican support, every Democrat would have to support a climate plan.
"Do I think we have 60 votes to come up with strong global warming legislation? No," Sanders said. "I think it is a tragedy, but that's the way it is."
Environmentalists and Senate advocates of greenhouse gas limits are hoping to keep climate provisions in the mix for the Senate debate, but emissions caps face resistance from many Republicans and some centrist Democrats.
But Tom Udall (D-N.M.) said that writing off a strong climate bill is premature. "We are still at the very early stage," he said en route to the caucus meeting. "It's the first caucus. ... We are moving in the direction of getting all the senators to talk with each other."
Udall said a meeting between Reid and freshman and sophomore senators a couple of days ago revealed significant support for climate provisions.
"[Reid] just put the question to all of us, do you want a price on carbon in this bill? There was only one senator that said they couldn't do it," Udall said.
Hot off the presses! Senator Criticises Opposition Politicians!
When someone uses a “trick” to “hide the decline” they are not engaged in science, but issue advocacy.
Senator: “YOU FOLLOW SATAN!!!!”
And i believe Bernie Sanders is totally ignorant of science. He follows other equally ignorant ideological fools.
Listening to bogus, agenda driven “science”? No, they are not, and they shouldn’t be.
Paging Lord Monckton...
Well, maybe it’s ‘cuz Limbaugh and Beck make far, FAR more sense than your so-called “scientists” who are pushing the lies of man-made global warming, Sanders..........you f***ing idiot.
Yea well Bernie follows Marx. Big deal.
"Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."
He also had a few words of warning about excessive goverment. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address
One of these days, the string attached to Bernie’s head will come loose and it will just float away!
Global warming is just one of the ploys of evil like DHIMMITUDE. Google the word! Every day more scientists pronounce global warming a political maneuver. We’d all better wake up before it is too late!
LOL.
If Bernie’s a nut, what does that make his voters...?
Being from California, I have no problem labeling swaths of people as nuts, but for now lets go with uninformed and apathetic.
The guy’s an a$$hole! How can you tell if a demorat is lying? His lips are moving!
My Green Mountain Boys ancestors are spinning :(
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