Republicans plan to fight Obama pollution plan
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Posted on 01/02/2011 6:21:09 PM PST by rabscuttle385
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Dig long enough and just about every Republican has a green skeleton in their closet. Many of them have their last presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, a longtime cap-and-trade enthusiast, to thank for it.
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"I support a reasonable cap-and-trade system," [Pawlenty] said. "I think it'd be good for the federal government to take that up rather than have states take it up as clusters of regions."
Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, appealed to a New Hampshire audience in October 2007 on moral grounds by saying he backed a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases and faulted the Senate for its unsuccessful efforts to pass legislation.
Even Sarah Palin has a YouTube moment. Just days after McCain picked her as his running mate, Palin told ABC News she believes human activities "certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change" and that "we've got to do something about it, and we have to make sure that we're doing all we can to cut down on pollution."
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Romney worked for two years as Massachusetts governor to cap greenhouse gases from power plants as part of a regional pact.
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"I believe that climate change is occurring – the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore," Romney wrote in his 2010 book "No Apologies: The Case for American Greatness." "I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor."
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich may have the hardest job explaining himself thanks to a 2008 TV commercial sponsored by Gore's Repower America campaign. Gingrich and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sit on a couch outside the Capitol and declare that while they don't often agree on issues, "we do agree our country must take action to address climate change."
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She gives Mitt a run for the money as world champion finger in the wind flip flopper.
Biden, Palin in complete agreement: Carbon caps are coming
To this:
PALIN: … Alaska feels and sees impacts of climate change more so than any other state. And we know that it’s real … And I don’t want to argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we going to get there to positively affect the impacts? … even in dealing with climate change, it’s all the more reason that we have an “all of the above” approach, tapping into alternative sources of energy and conserving fuel, conserving our petroleum products and our hydrocarbons so that we can clean up this planet and deal with climate change.
If Sarah Palin is so 'green' why is that she incessantly calls for more drilling of oil, emphasizing that the designated area at ANWR be opened to drilling?
Someone so adamant about drilling for oil doesn't excatly meet the profile of a cap and trade advocate.
I expect her to act like a conservative, instead of kissing McCain's RINO derriere.
Oh wait, I forgot. She's a politician.
Republicans plan to fight Obama pollution plan
Global Warming on Free Republic
That picture cracks me up.
John McCain...so liberals won’t have to be embarrassed they have Howard Dean!
(Who ever said Republicans didn’t care about feelings?)
See, there's your problem right there, Miss Lindsay -- you talk about "carbon pollution" then complain that you might alienate voters that believe it exists. Stop allowing the bad guys (here I'm pretending you're not one of them) to define the debate. If you want to be able to speak the truth and still have voters, EDUCATE them. Stop pandering to the logic-impaired idiot infants on the left.
It's possible that's what she was saying in politician-speak. "AGW is a bunch of hooey, but just because I'm not falling for it, don't try to claim I want to raze the forests, because I do support limiting real pollution, which just doesn't happen to include CO2"
Ah, the McCain Monotony just goes on and on...
Perhaps Juan's steadfast alligance to cap-and-trade explains in part why he remains in the Senate. Someone benefits by keeping him there to tout this monstrous assault on true free-market principles.
Either that, or he has excellent lettuce connections that help out the Senate lunchroom, or...he's so freaking old, they're afraid if they move him, they'll break him.
:) Thanks for the chuckle.
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