Romney’s Troubling Appointments (Mitt's environmental policy team now works for Obama)

RedState ^ | October 7, 2011 | Posted by streiff

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Mitt Romney’s supporters have been dogging Governor Perry on him acting as Texas campaign manager for Al Gore’s abortive 1988 presidential run as one of the Seven Dwarfs. The critique runs, dishonestly I might add, that Al Gore was an environmental kook then, ergo Perry is an environmental kook. Because something.

This is just balderdash. In 1988, Al Gore was a moderate-conservative senator from Tennessee who was a very attractive candidate. His descent into self parody started much later.

I rarely resort to publishing oppo material circulated by campaigns but I am making an exception today. File this particular story under “sauce for the gander.”

If personnel equal policy we have a hint from Mitt Romney’s appointments while governor of Massachusetts what his administration will look like. Van Jones may not be recalled but it may not make much difference.

In 2003, Romney chose a hard core environmental activist to be Secretary of Commonwealth Development. In this position he was charged with developing a scheme to restrict “greenhouse gas” emissions. According to the :

"Just days after his 2002 election, Mr. Romney hired Douglas Foy, one of the state’s most prominent environmental activists, and put him in charge of supervising four state agencies. … With Mr. Foy by his side, Mr. Romney joined activists outside an aging, coal-fired plant in 2003 to show his commitment to the emissions caps. “I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant, that plant kills people,” he said."

But when it became obvious that he would not win reelection as governor, Romney set his sights on the GOP presidential nomination. In remaking himself he repudiated his own secretary carrying out his own plan.

Significantly, two of Romney’s appointments have how found a home in the Obama White House.

Gina McCarthy, the chief EPA clean air regulator, also worked as an environmental regulator for then-Governor Romney. Her role now is as point guard (nyuk) in the Obama Administrations fight to make coal fired electric generating plants extinct.

"EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has taken most of the fire from Republicans as her agency rolls out a slew of controversial new climate and clean air rules. But McCarthy, the EPA assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation, has taken on much of the heavy lifting of writing, structuring, and implementing the rules.

“Lisa’s the coach and Gina’s the quarterback” in the work of rolling out new clean air regulations, said Daniel Weiss, an energy and climate policy expert at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the Obama administration. “She’s running the plays, improvising on the line.”

Another Romney environmental adviser in the effort to regulate “greenhouse gases” is now Obama’s Director of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren. Dr. Holdren has some exotic views:

"President Obama’s “science czar,” John Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, “compulsory sterilization,” and the creation of a “Planetary Regime” that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet — controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings.

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"Those plans include forcing single women to abort their babies or put them up for adoption; implanting sterilizing capsules in people when they reach puberty; and spiking water reserves and staple foods with a chemical that would make people sterile.

"To help achieve those goals, they formulate a “world government scheme” they call the Planetary Regime, which would administer the world’s resources and human growth, and they discuss the development of an “armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force” to which nations would surrender part of their sovereignty."

Holdren has gone to some lengths to repudiate those views but one has to question “confirmation conversions.”

So Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president in 1988. Romney’s environmental policy team now works for Obama. Sauce for the goose. Sauce for the gander.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Romney [2005]: Strict New Clean Air Regulations [w/ Obama's green science adviser, John P. Holdren]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

2009 The Holdren & Letterman lovefest

………….A deferential David Letterman didn’t breathe a word about Holdren’s radical views, his extreme published works, his phenomenally wrong-headed predictions, or his eugenics-obsessed intellectual mentors.

Instead, Letterman lectured his audience to “pay attention” to his “fun” and “informational” interview with Holdren.

Letterman grilled him on whether he felt “exhilaration or frustration” about his job advising the White House — which Holdren used as an opportunity to bash Bush/Cheney.

With furrowed brow, Letterman drummed up global warming fear, indignantly asserted that “Coal is the culprit,” and fretted that “My son might not have a chance to see snow!”…………….

[Cincinatus' Wife]

List of Michelle Malkin articles on John P. Holdren

[JRandomFreeper]

To give a little historical context.... Way back... when Texas wasn't a state, or even a republic,... Folks from Tennesee 'volunteered' and came down here and helped out at a little mission near a river.

We call it the Alamo.

And then there was a lot of fuss.

But Texas never forgot Tennesee. We have a soft spot in our heads.

/johnny

[fieldmarshaldj]

"In 1988, Al Gore was a moderate-conservative senator from Tennessee who was a very attractive candidate."

How many times is this outrageous lie going to be repeated ?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

fieldmarshaldj — Please allow this thread to focus on Mitt Romney’s environmental policy people who now work for the Obama Administration.

I know you have stated your aim is to take out Perry and clear the path for Cain. But this is an important thread about Mitt Romney — who we both agree should not be the GOP presidential nominee.

Yes. When Perry was a Democrat in 1988 he supported Al Gore’s run in the Democratic Primary (Dukakus won). Perry did vote for Ronald Reagan (has stated he did vote for Carter because he thought he would be good for farmers). Al Gore was considered a moderate — Pro-Life, 2nd Amendment, a moment of silence in schools Democrat — his views radically changed when he ran for VP in 2000.

Rick Perry joined the GOP in 1989 [joining Phil Gramm and others] as the Republican party took root and it became obvious it was home for Conservative Democrats. Rick Perry was the first Republican to become Texas Lt. Gov. since Reconstruction. During his tenure as governor Texas has built a GOP super majority.

Gov. Perry repudiates Global Warming and is fighting the EPA stranglehold on Texas. The Obama administration’s (and Mitt’s former — perhaps future) science advisers are waging a war against Texas). Perry will go after the regulations and dictates the EPA and Energy have imposed that are destroying jobs and killing our economy.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Mitt Romney's environmental coal policies--Obama's environmental coal policies.

Carbon Copies [60 second video campaign ad]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Link in thread fixed:

“In 2003, Romney chose a hard core environmental activist to be Secretary of Commonwealth Development. In this position he was charged with developing a scheme to restrict “greenhouse gas” emissions. According to the Wall Street Journal:”

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Romney’s Advisers Met With Obama to Help Craft ‘Obamacare’ “Three of Mitt Romney’s advisers went to the White House at least a dozen times in 2009 to consult on the former Massachusetts governor’s health care plan that President Obama used as a model for his initiative -- now a federal law that all the Republican presidential candidates want to repeal.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Tuesday he was "not in a position to comment on specific meetings." But in a remark that won't help Romney in his pursuit for the 2012 Republican nomination, Earnest repeated that Obama took cues from the Massachusetts legislation.

"You've certainly heard the president himself say that there were a number of very good ideas included in the health care plan that then-Gov. Romney put in place in Massachusetts that were incorporated into the Affordable Care Act and so it’s clear that these are some ideas that we were interested in incorporating and we did incorporate.

"But in terms of individual meetings and who participated and what the goal of them was, I don’t have that information,” he said.”……

[fieldmarshaldj]

Excuse me, I targeted a specific and demonstrably false point in the article. You have also continued to make an absurdly false claim with respect to Gore in an attempt to elevate Perry as it is part of the talking points and revisionist history his campaign dictates. As a Tennessean who was WELL aware of Gore and his voting record, I take extreme offense to this falsehood you and the authors of this article continue to proliferate.

You wish to take down Slick Willard, be my guest, since I already did the heavy lifting for you here starting almost 5 years ago when a lot of folks were ready to just surrender to him, but when you repeat specific fallacies as truth, I will promptly correct you and call you out.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

June 15, 2011: Al Gore praises Mitt Romney on climate Mitt Romney on Wednesday got a big thumbs up for his stance on global warming from a source that likely won’t help him at all in the GOP primary: Al Gore.

The former vice president and Nobel Prize winner praised Romney for not heeding right-wing calls to reject the science behind climate change.

“Good for Mitt Romney — though we've long passed the point where weak lip-service is enough on the Climate Crisis,” Gore wrote on his blog. “While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party.”

Earlier this month, Romney told a New Hampshire town hall meeting that he believes climate change is happening and that man-made emissions are a cause.

"I don't speak for the scientific community, of course, but I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," Romney said. "I can't prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer.

"No. 2, I believe that humans contribute to that," he continued. "I don't know how much our contribution is to that, because I know there's been periods of greater heat and warmth than in the past, but I believe we contribute to that. And so I think it's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and global warming that you're seeing."....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.........."Gina McCarthy, the chief EPA clean air regulator, also worked as an environmental regulator for then-Governor Romney. Her role now is as point guard (nyuk) in the Obama Administrations fight to make coal fired electric generating plants extinct.

"EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has taken most of the fire from Republicans as her agency rolls out a slew of controversial new climate and clean air rules. But McCarthy, the EPA assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation, has taken on much of the heavy lifting of writing, structuring, and implementing the rules.

“Lisa’s the coach and Gina’s the quarterback” in the work of rolling out new clean air regulations, said Daniel Weiss, an energy and climate policy expert at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the Obama administration. “She’s running the plays, improvising on the line.”........

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JOHN KERRY: Gina [McCarthy] has demonstrated a level of achievement worthy of this important postion. Economist Gary Yohe thinks so. Yohe, who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore, said Gina will bring “energy and excitement” to the Obama administration.

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[mkjessup]

Excuse me, I targeted a specific and demonstrably false point in the article. You have also continued to make an absurdly false claim with respect to Gore in an attempt to elevate Perry as it is part of the talking points and revisionist history his campaign dictates. As a Tennessean who was WELL aware of Gore and his voting record, I take extreme offense to this falsehood you and the authors of this article continue to proliferate.

PREACH Brother! Gore was an idiot long before he stained the halls of the United States Senate, and he was groomed by his Communist-sympathizing Daddy, Al Gore Sr, racist, segregationaist and bought and paid for by the Commie Armand Hammer. Treason runs deep in that pathetic excuse for a family, as I see it. And don't even get me started about Al Jr's so-called 'airline safety' commission which watered down it's recommendations after the airline lobbyists screamed murder most foul, made a $100,000 donation to the 'Rats, and that all contributed to the failure of our security on the morning of 11 September 2001.

You wish to take down Slick Willard, be my guest, since I already did the heavy lifting for you here starting almost 5 years ago when a lot of folks were ready to just surrender to him, but when you repeat specific fallacies as truth, I will promptly correct you and call you out.

I was here more than 5 years ago FMDJ, and I remember your efforts, which were well done.

In my humble opinion, ANYone who lamely " stated he did vote for Carter because he thought he would be good for farmers" deserves nothing but contempt. Like Gore, Carter was easily identified as a lying sack o' sh*t early on, and only a fool or a knave would vote for that miserable sonuvab*tch.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

More GREEN Kerry-Holdren-Obama ties:

…..Under the Kerry-Lieberman bill, international offset credits could be given to countries that reduce deforestation as detailed in Sec. 756(c ) of the bill, while Section 5004 calls on the Secretary of Agriculture and the administration of the Environmental Protection Agency to create a program “to provide assistance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries, in accordance with this title.”

Funding for that program would have to be appropriated by Congress at levels requested by the administration.

In his July 3, 2008 interview on “Democracy NOW!” Holdren said incentives to reduce deforestation would be a part of the solution, along with “real limits and real charges” on greenhouse gas emissions. He argued, however, that such charges would not be economically ruinous, but would instead create jobs.

“The moment we put real limits and real charges on carbon dioxide emissions, we will see a surge of innovation that will discover even better ways for reducing those emissions,” he said. “We will see new jobs and new wealth created as we convert our energy economy to a clean one rather than a dirty one. We will see new jobs and new income created in sustainable uses of tropical forests rather than cutting them down.”

“The notion that this is going to be unaffordable and an economic catastrophe to address this problem is just wrong,” said Holdren. source

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[John P. Holdren collaborated with Paul and and Ehrlich on “The Population Bomb”] -- 1995 the Heinz Award for the Environment: The Heinz Award As scientists, authors and educators, Paul and Anne Ehrlich have for 30 years devoted themselves to enhancing public understanding of a wide range of environmental issues, including conservation biology, biodiversity and habitat preservation.

The basis of the Ehrlichs' work has always been their science, and they have compiled an important body of scientific research over the years. But it is their environmental advocacy - particularly in the area of population - for which the Ehrlichs are most well known. Paul Ehrlich made a memorable debut on the world scene with the publication of his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, warning that the Earth's resources could not indefinitely support the planet's growing population. In a 1990 sequel, The Population Explosion, Paul and Anne Ehrlich provided an unflinching update.

Setting forth challenging but prescient work was to become a hallmark of the Ehrlichs' careers. Several decades ago, they did it again, becoming the first to raise the alarm about a possible resurgence of infectious diseases - another controversial theory now taken seriously.

Paul Ehrlich, currently Bing Professor of Population Studies in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, and Anne Ehrlich, senior research associate in the biology and policy coordination center founded by the couple at Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology, have never suggested that population issues represent the whole of the planet's problems. In fact they have been forceful advocates for broadening the agenda of the environmental movement to include such issues as biodiversity, poverty, consumption, carrying capacity, energy supplies, agriculture and food, global warming, nuclear weapons, international economics, environmental ethics, and sustainable development.

The Ehrlichs have displayed rare leadership in seeking to translate meaningful science into workable policy. Far from being prophets of doom, they are spirited optimists, whose unrivaled contributions have flowed from a belief that the future is still ours to make.

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In 1990, Teresa Heinz met Senator Kerry at an Earth Day rally. This was the only reported time they met before Senator Heinz died in an airplane crash on April 4, 1991. In 1992, they met again, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They were married May 26, 1995.

Teresa Heinz, the wife of Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, is the chairman of The Heinz Endowments and the Heinz Family Philanthropies. The New York Times has called her “one of the nation’s leading philanthropists”. Named by Utne magazine as one of 100 American visionaries (“people who could change your life”), she is recognized as one of our premier environmental leaders. She has been a long-time and tireless educator and advocate on behalf of women’s health and economic security. A PHILANTHROPIC INNOVATOR

John P. Holdren Another collaboration with the Ehrlichs: “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment”

Stanford Ed: Paul Ehrlich: President, Center for Conservation Biology Bing Professor of Population Studies

[dirtboy]

fieldmarshaldj — Please allow this thread to focus on Mitt Romney’s environmental policy people who now work for the Obama Administration.

Your own post put the topic into play, CW. Don't whine when someone brings it up.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

John P. Holdren Another collaboration with the Ehrlichs: “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment” [1977 textbook, “Ecoscience: Population, Resouces, Environment” -- In 1977, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Holdren co-authored the textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment; they discussed the possible role of a wide variety of solutions to overpopulation, from voluntary family planning to enforced population controls, including forced sterilization for women after they gave birth to a designated number of children, and recommended "the use of milder methods of influencing family size preferences" such as access to birth control and abortion.

TAKING IT GLOBAL: March 10, 2011--NYT OpEd Celestrial Storm Warnings by John P. Holdren is the science and technology adviser to President Barack Obama and John Beddington is the chief scientific adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron.

[David Isaac]

“In 1988, Al Gore was a “(seemingly)” moderate-conservative senator from Tennessee who was a very attractive candidate. His descent “(coming Out)” into self parody started much later. Al Gore was NEVER anything but a snake.

That said, I would never vote for Mitt Romney, anymore than I would vote for McStain. But neither would I vote for someone who would tolerate, or even actively work toward a United States of the Americaz. Illegal immigration is a MAJOR problem in my book.

[StAnDeliver]

"In 1988, Al Gore was a moderate-conservative senator from Tennessee who was a very attractive candidate. His descent into self parody started much later."

No, he was pretty much into self-parody then...

[samtheman]

A few questions:

1. Whatever Al Gore was in 1988, and whatever Rick Perry was in 1988, what has Rick Perry’s positions been as Governor of Texas regarding “protecting planet Earth from AGW”?

2. Whatever Al Gore was in 1988, and whatever Rick Perry was in 1988, what do you believe Rick Perry’s positions will be as President (if) regarding “protecting planet Earth from AGW”?

3. Do you honestly believe that Rick Perry is a) a proponent of AGW? b) someone who has increased regulations in response to perceived AGW? c) someone who (if President) will increase regulations in response to perceived AGW?

4. Do you believe it is important to roll back federal regulations aimed at curbing supposed AGW?

5. Which do you believe is more important, actually rolling back harmful EPA regulations, or winning the debate about the politics of 1988 in Texas?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Obama’s Science and Technology Adviser: ...Holdren is often called the science ‘czar’ for the vast swath of topics on which he is tasked to advise the president, including HEALTH CARE, the space program [NASA], BIOETHICS, and MORE. Source

NASA is now Green, Bush's space program was dismantled and our workforce and systems are being dismantled and cast aside -- and no new program has been offered to replace it. Not to mention the Muslim outreach.

John P. Holdren is deeply involved with HEALTH CARE and BIOETHICS where he's on record being behind eliminating excess population or keeping it from expanding.

Green environmental movement is part and parcel of the entire control of humanity.

John P. Holdren is a modern day Trofim Lysenko.