Just great. Voluntary cap and trade. Brilliant.

This nonsense is increasingly becoming a regular policy plank for these sham Republicans. They're not against regulation, nor for deregulation. Heavens no.

The new Republican party is for voluntary regulation. All the voluntary regulation you want.

Whole different thing.

Someone should ask McCain why anyone would waste the money to buy someone else's carbon emissions reduction successes if it were not mandatory to stay under a cap? Instead of spending the money, they should rationally just bust the cap and forget about it.

McCain was speaking from his gut. He has spent his adult life, starting at least as early as Annapolis and probably earlier avoiding doing what others told him to do. He'll push the limit on Anything that is mandatory and feel proud he did it. That's his personal history. I'd bet that when he fills out his tax returns he takes every questionable deduction he can find on the bet that no one will dare audit him. But he won't quite go into things that are out-and-out fraudulent. McCain hates rules that apply to him, and lacking empathy like so many conservative Republicans, expects absolutely everyone else to feel the same.

People, is it mandatory not to notice that McCain is talking through his cap?

Apparently in the traditional media it is. But the traditional media is run by CEO's who are out of touch but still in power. (See the part of David Kurtz' report starting at "Interestingly, the disconnect between publishers and journalists..." and going to the end.)

Having watched in both Houston and Dallas when the more powerful Newspaper bought out the less powerful one and shut it down after the Reagan administration stopped enforcing Anti-Trust and encouraged newspapers to establish local monopolies, the current inability of American newspapers to compete with other media is no surprise. It's like Detroit against the Japanese cars. The Japanese market was and remains highly competitive. Detroit ceased to be, so Detroit lost its flexibility and the Japanese (with much better long term product-market strategy) have spent the last four decades doing better than Detroit on cars.

The conservative movement, together with the competition of personality-based TV "journalism," can be blamed in large part for the collapse of the American newspapers.

Now the newspaper CEO's have their heads so far up the conservatives' asses they can't recognize that they are no longer operating a competitive business model. Politics has replaced profit-based business models. That's the effect of the conservative movement, the Reagan Revolution, and Newt Gingrich's Congress.

They don't DARE recognize that McCain is talking through his hat. That would be admitting they were incompetent CEO's - and they are. If they actually tried to operate like they were in a competitive new market (and with the internet, they are) they would have to admit they don't have a clue how to make effective strategic decisions. Do you realize how very difficult it is for a CEO to admit that he is incompetent? They can't do that.

The newspaper CEO's are tied to politics instead of economics because they have more control in politics (primarily during a Republican administration.) But economically and technologically they are in a declining industry.

Is it any real surprise that the CEO's in the news papers are tied to McCain? Of course they don't dare admit he's talking through his cap. McCain is all they have!

The personality-driven sound bytes of TV so-called journalism is a very different kettle of fish, but they, too, are feeling the effects of technological competition and advertising decline. They too find that political control of their economic environment is more certain and a lot easier than directly fighting their competitors economically.

"spend and spew" is preferable to George Bush's policy here in Texas when he was Governor. Then his policy was "Voluntary Compliance."

The idea was that it was too expensive for existing plants to upgrade on a government schedule to reduce emissions, so they would be grandfathered in and would "voluntarily" include emissions-reducing upgrades when they did routine maintenance. This was the plan by the conservative (then Democrat run) Texas State Legislature in the 70's when they finally started implementing environmental legislation, and it was good enough for Bush when he was elected Governor to the singly weakest Governorship in the U.S. (Both the Speaker of the House and the Lt. Governor as President of the state Senator have more power than the governor.)

Forty years later none of those industries have reduced their toxic emissions a bit on the voluntary basis. Bush, upon taking office in 1994, immediately arbitrarily killed the contracts (issued under Ann Richards) that would implement the tighter controls on car emissions. Bush's actions cost the Texas government millions of dollars in breach-of-contract lawsuits as well as continued increases in degradation of the air we breathe here.

At least "spend and spew" would have put some cap on the toxic emissions here. As it is, things are much worse now than they were in 1994 when Bush became Governor. No Surprise, I guess. Every job Bush has ever had he left in worse shape than when he took it.

As an aside, I see no reason to believe that the very similar narcissistic rebellious screw-up son-of-privilege John McCain would be any different in the Presidency. Peas in a pod.

We need to hit him hard on this issue. It undermines almost every part of his candidacy(straight talk anyone) and further ties him to Bush's complete incompetence while at the same time enhancing the perception that he's an old man who's losing it. This is a gimme and should be hammered away at relentlessly by Obama.

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