Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/23/2010 12:09:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is comparing climate change skeptics to those who disregarded the Nazi threat in America in the 1930s, adding a strident rhetorical shot to the already volatile debate over climate change.
"It reminds me of an event that took place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s," said Sanders, perhaps the most liberal member of the Senate, during a Senate hearing Tuesday. "During that period of Nazism and fascism's growth-a real danger to this country and democratic countries around the world- there were people in this country and in the British parliament who said 'don't worry! Hitler's not real! It'll disappear!"
Sanders' Nazi comparison is sure to enrage Republicans who are already skeptical of the science behind climate change. But Sanders wasn't the only one throwing bombs at a hearing that was ostensibly about the EPA's fiscal 2011 budget. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who has called global warming a "hoax," is asking for an investigation into the science used in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the governing body on climate science.
Earlier in the hearing, Inhofe had chided Sanders: "I know the senator from Vermont wants so badly to believe that the science on climate change is settled but it's not."
The heated exchanges came as EPA administrator Lisa Jackson sparred with lawmakers over her agency's decision to regulate greenhouse gases, something that Senate Republicans — and some Democrats — have opposed.
"How can you justify doing something administratively that was overwhelmingly rejected by the United States Senate and say defiantly 'we don't care what you say, Congress, we're going to go ahead and do it under the clean air act," Inhofe asked.
Jackson said her agency was in its right to regulate carbon.
"The supreme court said the EPA must make the determination whether or not greenhouse gases are harmful to the public welfare. Rather than ignore that obligation I chose as a public administrator to make the order," Jackson replied
SLAM DUNK!
I don't think you have a good grasp of Soviets or capitalism.
May I remind you, that the Nazis allies did attack one of our naval bases. I guess we should have pretended that didn't happen, but it was kind of a big deal to the people who were there.
Bernie reminds me of all the people who swear they've seen Elvis at the local Walmart. Believing is seeing, Bernie.
HA! FINALLY! You people now get a taste of the global warming we experience here constantly!
Bernie Sanders is a self-proclaimed communist. When losing an argument, he uses his Jewish background as a back-up club of last resort.
Most Jews I know use logic.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is a Communist which is the same thing as a Nazi so how can he call someone else a Nazi liker.
Neville Chamberlain was one of yours, Bernie. We claim to the likes of the Winston Churchill’s of the world.
Its Vermont - nothing new here.
Senile dementia....
Bernie Sanders Compares Climate Skeptics to Nazi Deniers........
That dog won’t hunt. People are onto this scam. Americans put global warming at the bottom of the list of issues that concern them
And I compare “Red” Bernie with Stalin. Screw the deranged Constitution-hating, junk-science loving s.o.b. and the like-minded voters who elect him.
“I don’t think you have a good grasp of Soviets or capitalism”
I don’t think you have a good grasp of what I was saying. If the Soviets didn’t willingly accept aid from the Big, Bad Capitalists, eating much of it up within the party before it got to the people, I’ll eat my hat. See Orwell(an honest socialist)’s version of it in “Animal Farm”.
“May I remind you, that the Nazis allies did attack one of our naval bases.”
Not that it doesn’t matter, but if we went to war with everyone who ever did us any harm, we would have had a lot more wars. The point is, the Nazis posed no existential threat. You know, nothing to justify total war, with massive arms build-up, drafts, and all that. Which is what war must have been, if anything. It would have been silly to go one-foot-in/one-foot-out.
Without reading this article, I feel comfortable in comparing Bernie Sanders to Josef Stalin.
Oh, Bernie, you maggot.
Bernie is in the pocket of the ski resort owners up there in Vermont. He is just looking out for their interests. /s
OK Bernie, since you like comparisons: You, and your kind, are like Chicken-Littles!
Yes, but that doesn't make the Soviets capitalists, it makes those capitalists stupid.
After all, it was Lenin himself who said, ""The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." Sometimes, I believe he was too right.
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