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Clinton: GOP disbelieves climate change because Koch brothers tell them to
The Hill ^ | 1/30/16 | Mark Hensch

Posted on 01/31/2016 4:29:14 AM PST by Libloather

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said late Saturday that most Republicans are skeptical of climate change because billionaire donors David and Charles Koch tell them to be.

"Most of them are not that ill-informed," she said during a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "They just have to do what the Koch brothers tell them. They say, 'don't believe your lying eyes - listen to us.' "

Clinton warned America's economy would slip behind other nations if lawmakers keep debating climate change instead of acting.

"Some country is going to be the 21st Century clean energy superpower," she said. "I think it will be China, Germany or us. I want it to be us and I hope it's us."

"I still believe we can make things in America. We're going to combat climate change and then we're going to create more clean, renewable energy jobs."

Clinton argued Republicans are so critical of her Oval Office bid because she is unyielding on clean energy and other progressive policies.

"The folks who know I have the toughest plan are the Republicans and their allies," she said. "You've got to ask yourself - why are they so nervous about me?"

"They know me. They know I mean what I say and say what I mean. We're going to take the fight to them and we can. I'm a progressive who likes to get things done."

Clinton's remarks come as she tries fending off Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Iowa caucuses Monday. Sanders trails Clinton by about 3 percent in the Hawkeye State, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls.


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To: Libloather

Hillary ‘believes’ climate change because she’s a lying Stalinist.


21 posted on 01/31/2016 5:11:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: a fool in paradise

no, she believes in man made climate change because she’s an ignorant twit


22 posted on 01/31/2016 5:13:53 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

They haven’t told ME!


23 posted on 01/31/2016 5:15:29 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: ronnie raygun

...Believers in climate change believe because the idiots in charge tell them to...

As in,
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.


24 posted on 01/31/2016 5:16:02 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: Kudsman

Yes, you are correct. It’s looking more and more that way.


25 posted on 01/31/2016 5:19:05 AM PST by abclily
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To: Libloather
Liberals have this conceit that a small group of power-mad plutocrats tell conservatives what to think about any issue. As a number of conservative writers have pointed out the Koch bros are very liberal on many issues. I don't even know what they think about glo-bull warming.

The fact is before conservative talk radio, the internet, and billionaires funding many conservative orgs., there was a huge conservative population of Americans who knew the score on liberals like Hillary. What the modern big name conservatives did was give a voice to the previously "silent majority" who had suffered through the liberal onslaught of the sixties and seventies.

26 posted on 01/31/2016 5:27:55 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: Libloather

Democrats believe in MMGW because socialist ambition tells them to.


27 posted on 01/31/2016 5:28:33 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: abclily

If only we would all give money to the Clinton Grifter Foundation then all the climate change problems would be solved.


28 posted on 01/31/2016 5:28:55 AM PST by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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To: Libloather

Does Hillary believe the Germans are the master race?


29 posted on 01/31/2016 5:30:48 AM PST by alternatives? (Cruz or Trump)
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To: Libloather

Better to listen to the Koch brothers than to Al Gore...he became certifiably insane when he didn’t best W.


30 posted on 01/31/2016 5:31:24 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Libloather

Republicans are skeptical of climate change because billionaire donors David and Charles Koch tell them to be.

blying lich surely knows better. I have a brain, that’s the reason, and skeptical doesn’t begin to describe my position.

...and that first sentence is just where I stopped reading.


31 posted on 01/31/2016 5:32:51 AM PST by wita
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

How can one person be so patently ignorant?


32 posted on 01/31/2016 5:33:02 AM PST by pacobell
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To: rktman

Like your list. Irrefutable.

The next time I hear someone say “climate change”, I’ll ask them, “What happened to global warming?”...then call them a global warming denier.


33 posted on 01/31/2016 5:44:20 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: GailA

Some parts of the earth are warming but it’s coming from inside and underneath not from SUVs and cow farts


34 posted on 01/31/2016 5:46:11 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: rktman
I'd add:

8. Explain why ever remedy, whether it is global cooling or global warming, involves ceding political and economic power to self-appointed collectivist arbitrators and totalitarians.

35 posted on 01/31/2016 5:50:15 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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Explain why every remedy . . .

Sorry!

36 posted on 01/31/2016 5:53:04 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: abclily

Take your money and tell you “There, we fixed it!”


37 posted on 01/31/2016 6:16:53 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Libloather

38 posted on 01/31/2016 6:47:19 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Libloather
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39 posted on 01/31/2016 7:15:46 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Libloather

Yeah, we know ya sister!


40 posted on 01/31/2016 7:20:32 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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