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GOP American Energy Act--pay no attention to that carbon dioxide.
I just came across this post by Brad Johnson on ThinkProgress. It outlines a particularly brainless passage from the GOP American Energy Act.
Two highlights:
-the term air pollutant shall not include carbon dioxide.
-the impact of greenhouse gas on any species of fish or wildlife or plant shall not be considered.
Is this the kind of forward thinking we can expect out of Republicans on all issues?
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It's a shame any species of fish or wildlife or plant that shall not be considered can't cast a vote. I reckon the Republicans wouldn't be winning anything anytime soon. ;o)
June 12, 2009 9:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
that's an interesting way to look at it flower. I guess we're the only species affected by greenhouse gas that also has a vote, so we'll always have to speak up for the rest of life on the planet.
June 12, 2009 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh great, the problem is solv-ed as Inspector Clouseau would put it.
What a bunch of crap. I listened to some repub--big wig-give a speech on how the dems are lying with regard to global warming and using a minority scientific view to advance their agenda.
What fricking agenda? What the hell are they talking about.
Solar, Wind, Tide.....I mean, if the scientific consensus were wrong, how do we lose in our attempt to clear the air and cut down our dependence on foreign sources of oil?
IDIOTS
June 12, 2009 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
It seems to me that rhetoric like global warming and climate change has taken the whole issue about energy and our environment off of real footing and moved it into an esoteric debate.
We should return the simpler way of talking about things. When it comes to the air, the water, the earth, our natural resources, you are either pro-pollution or anti-pollution.
You are pro-earth, or anti-earth.
Pro-oceans and wildlife or anti-oceans and wildlife.
Pro-air or pro-soot.
June 12, 2009 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
How many times can the GOP say the same thing and not be considered insane. I mean there is the phrase that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity but the GOP seems to be taking it to a whole new level.
June 12, 2009 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Take any issue, education, healthcare, the environment, you name it, and the Republican position is no different now than it was nearly half a century ago.
That's their fundamental problem. The world has changed and they haven't.
They can't think past the 1900s. When they think about America's future, they can only envision America's past.
Which is why I can't see putting them at the helm of any issue in the 21st century.
June 12, 2009 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink