You think we got it bad now?
A comprehensive Wonk Room survey of the Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate finds that nearly all dispute the scientific consensus that the United States must act to fight global warming pollution. Remarkably, of the dozens of Republicans vying for the 37 Senate seats in the 2010 election, only one — Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware — supports strong climate action. Even former climate advocates Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) now toe the science-doubting party line. If Castle loses his primary on Tuesday to Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell, the GOP slate will be unanimous in opposition to a green economy.
Think about that for a minute.
As Bob Dylan said:
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You’re an idiot, babe
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe
Too bad he lived to see how true that was.
Tell me sir, what further climate action do you think will come from a Democratic Legislature?
That’s your response?
He was being sarcastic:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/13/901651/-Senate-likely-to-GUT-the-EPA-this-week!-Did-BPs-oil-
spill-never-happen-WTF!!
And you saw my post on your post before this, I take it. Well mark my fucking words, Democrats, this issue is more important to me than civil liberties, and civil liberties are a make or break with me. I still don’t know if I’ll vote for Obama in 2012 over his executive abuse and indefinite detentions. He is a tyrant on that front. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t totally expecting it after the FISA issue, but I didn’t expect it to get worse (and in my view, it has). So in that respect, I was slightly disillusioned.
Not on climate change. That issue goes beyond privacy: it is our fucking survival, and I’ll be damned if a bunch of snot-nosed blue dog corporate fucks and their Republican lackeys vote to gut the EPA.
You won’t see me work for a single Democrat, ever, for the rest of my life, if that is signed by Obama.
Yep. EPA regulations are the best means of dealing with greenhouse gases. And as of now, they are the only mechanism that we have. Revoking the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases amount to condemning the world to burn slowly.
The members of the Senate Appropriations Committee are:
Daniel K. Inouye
Patrick J. Leahy
Tom Harkin
Barbara A. Mikulski
Herb Kohl
Patty Murray
Byron Dorgan
Dianne Feinstein
Richard J. Durbin
Tim Johnson
Mary Landrieu
Jack Reed
Frank R. Lautenberg
Ben Nelson
Mark Pryor
Jon Tester
Sherrod Brown
Republicans
Thad Cochran
Christopher S. (Kit) Bond
Mitch McConnell
Richard C. Shelby
Judd Gregg
Robert F. Bennett
Kay Bailey Hutchinson
Sam Brownback
Lamar Alexander
Susan Collins
George Voinovich
Lisa Murkowski
Notice how many lame ducks are on this committee. Notice also how many fossil fuel state Senators are on this committee.
None, because of the coal state Democrats.
Exactly.
Here in Wisconsin, we have a choice between a Senate candidate who denies global climate change is influenced by human activity and a Senator (Feingold) who accepts that climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions but is unwilling support legislation because it might hurt Wisconsin corporations. And I’m supposed to care who wins?
Some day, in whatever isolated human communities remain, in Siberia or Greenland, or Tibet, parents will tell their children about how the wise people of the Great Civilization foresaw what was going to happen, and formulated a plan to prevent it from happening, but nothing was done. If there are future generations of humans, they will revile us.
If we are demoralized, we are demoralized with good reason. Having control of the White House and large majorities in both houses of Congress, including for several months the all-important 60-vote level in the Senate, the Democrats had a historic opportunity that will not return. And they squandered it.
Feingold has become remarkably disappointing. I never would have expected it.
Well, hell Booman!!!
It was true when he wrote it.
Just as true as it is today.
How can we forget Faubus and Goldwater and McCarthy and Wallace and…and the list goes on and on and on.
Lest we forget:
The most vile photograph ever taken in America, I think.
They have been with us forever.
They have been with all of humanity forever.
Lest we forget:
Lest we forget:
Lest we forget.
Unopposed…unopposed effectively…they dominate.
Always and forever.
Everywhere.
Lest we forget.
AG
Is that Hitler without his mustache? I don’t recognize him. Not that I ever knew him. The Time cover shows hm in full Nazi regalia, including mustache. Very impressive! It would make striking pendent to Mr. W., our ex-president. Remember him?
Which one?
AG
The one on the left. Dubya is a creep of a distinct US sort but absolutely not quite Hitler without a mustache. Comparisons to Hitler are useless anyway. Joseph Ratzinger is now on a state visit to the UK. He is the head of a mini-state because Hitler’s sidekick, B. Mussolini, returned the Vatican to semi-sovereign status in 1929, more than 60 years after the newly established Italian state had incorporated it into the civil structure. After the war someone decided to honor Mussolini’s decision. Could that be, in part, the little ole U.S. of A.? Mussolini needed the pope to bless his airplanes before they flew off to bomb Ehiopia. That’s a small service for a big prize!
I just had to get the preceding abomination off my chest.
I’m glad that Bob has lived to see it all, and to help me understand all that I have seen.
This may be just the storm we need to stop the influence of money on our government.