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How the Tea Party and John McCain killed Planet Earth

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How the Tea Party and John McCain killed Planet Earth

POSTED: Monday, October 4, 2010, 4:05 PM

I've mentioned this before, by now Ryan Lizza has the definitive piece in the New Yorker about Washington's failure to tackle climate change.

When North Wildwood is 30 milies offshore, we can all blame the Arizona Tea Party:

But the negotiations stalled as the bill moved forward. In Arizona, a right-wing radio host and former congressman, J. D. Hayworth, announced that he was considering challenging McCain in the primary. McCain had never faced a serious primary opponent for his Senate seat, and now he was going to have to defend his position on global warming to hard-core conservative voters. The Republican Party had grown increasingly hostile to the science of global warming and to cap-and-trade, associating the latter with a tax on energy and more government regulation. Sponsoring the bill wasn’t going to help McCain defeat an opponent to his right.

By the end of February, McCain was starting to back away from his commitment to Lieberman. At first, he insisted that he and Lieberman announce a set of climate-change “principles” instead of a bill. Then, three days before a scheduled press conference to announce those principles, the two senators had a heated conversation on the Senate floor. Lieberman turned and walked away. “That’s it,” he told an aide. “He can’t do it this year.”

Some maverick, huh?

Will Bunch @ 4:05 PM Permalink | 24 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:29 PM, 10/04/2010

Mr. Atkins: As usual, you don't let the facts get in the way of a "talking points" excuse. The Dems did not have 60 votes in the Senate for this bill, and never did, due to the blue dogs, who would be Republicans except for the purge going on in the GOP. Also, before you accuse someone of being "stupider" (sic), consider taking a grammar refresher course. It's actually more stupid, not stupider.

— AHiredGun

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:33 PM, 10/04/2010

Will, please do some research, global warming is nothing more than a theory. Granted, if you said there was a 25% chance a plane was going to crash you'd bring a parachute on the plane. So we shouldn't turn a blind eye to this (and we should be trying to get off fossil fuels for numerous other reasons anyway). But really, you, and all of the liberals and their propoganda scientists look foolish trumpeting global warming (or climate change as they now call it) as a fact. The truth is out there, global warming believers dont want to do any form of geo-engineering because they have no idea the real impacts of putting something into the atmosphere to try and cool the planet... yet they are 100% sure that the CO2 we put in the atmosphere will cause global warming? How is that possible? How can they be scared to modify the environment because they dont understand the full system and what the impacts will be, but can be completely certain that putting CO2 in the atmosphere (as an uninentional form of geo-engineering) WILL cause global warming? Proof positive that there is no real facts behind global warming, just theory, by people trying to understand and predict a system they have already admitted they doing understand fully.

— Greg S

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:14 PM, 10/04/2010

Great cut and paste, truly "definitive" evidence that McCain "killed Planet Earth".

— RG

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:18 PM, 10/04/2010

Cap and trade will have negligible impact on the climate. Besides, China won't even consider it until 2030. Some emergency!

— molonlabe

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:26 PM, 10/04/2010

The liberals and Democrats are showing their true colors.
What a Ship of Fools heading for the November storm.
You are all morons- "Climate change" only fools believe.......

— Illogical Liberal

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:30 PM, 10/04/2010

Fake drivers license? Fake Social security Card? Employment agency send you?.........In the Illogical Liberal's mind this is Meg Whitman's fault. The felon is the victim. God -Liberals are dumb.

— Illogical Liberal

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:49 PM, 10/04/2010

Greg S-curious to see where you find your information--what type of scientific background do you have?

— yantastic

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:31 PM, 10/04/2010

Actually, it looks like Harry Reid "killed Planet Earth" if you read the whold nauseating piece.

— blackhawk90

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:34 PM, 10/04/2010

Correction, whole.

— blackhawk90

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:46 PM, 10/04/2010

AHiredGun: "Mr. Atkins: As usual, you don't let the facts get in the way of a "talking points" excuse. The Dems did not have 60 votes in the Senate for this bill, and never did, due to the blue dogs, who would be Republicans except for the purge going on in the GOP." Ahhhh, they ARE Democrats, aren't they? Who cares if they are Blue Dogs. That's the D's problem. You guys are pitiful.

— blackhawk90

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:57 PM, 10/04/2010

Like a weak fighter, flailing his arms wildly in any hope to connect and convince; Willy seems increasingly desperate with his daily and laughable posts. November is coming Willy boy!

— camtheman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:20 PM, 10/04/2010

Anything that will sink Wildwood NJ under the ocean is worth considering on it's own merits without the massive government expansion.

— Mr. Smith

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