Republican hypocrite sluts on Global Warming

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I use Global Warming as a bellwether on either someone's sanity, oil company hypnosis, or susceptibility to brainwashing/propaganda. This is not to say that everyone who questions accepted hard science is nuts, it just indicates deeply rooted religious programming, hatred of leftist ideas, or oil company propaganda in this particular case

Now Lieberman....? He is of course insane, but unlike his full-blooded Republican brethren, not stupid. He knows that no one would take him seriously if he joined the Repugs with their global warming denial machine.

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Craig blasts Boxer over bill to reverse global warming

BY MATTHEW DALY - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


WASHINGTON - Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is being investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee for his conviction in a sex sting, but that hasn't stopped him from attacking the panel's chairwoman over her support for a bill to combat global warming.

Craig, who lost a leadership role on the Senate Environment panel as a result of the sex scandal, said a bill being pushed by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., would cost thousands of jobs and "demonstrate nothing more than her intent to revert the United States to a developing country."

Boxer chairs the Senate Environment committee, as well as the ethics panel. She has scheduled a vote next week on a global warming bill that would impose mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other industrial facilities.

Craig, a Republican, said in an op-ed piece prepared for Western newspapers that Boxer "hopes to strike a symbolic victory for Europeans everywhere by merely passing a bill out of committee to leave the impression that the United States is ready to follow Europe's lead on climate change."

In addition to raising energy costs, the bill "would export what's left of our manufacturing jobs, all for a negligible and debatable impact on global temperatures," Craig said, calling Boxer's approach "all-pain, no-gain."

A spokesman for Boxer said Craig's comments were nothing new.

"Everything in Senator Craig's statement he has said over and over in the committee," said Peter Rafle, a spokesman for Boxer. "Senator Boxer trusts that the committee will reject his negative way of thinking and adopt a strong climate security bill."

Rafle and Natalie Ravitz, another Boxer aide, declined to comment on her role in the ethics inquiry.

Senate Republicans demanded the ethics investigation after news broke this summer of Craig's August conviction in a sex sting at a Minneapolis airport men's room. Craig first promised to resign Sept. 30, then reversed his decision. He now says he will stay in office until his term expires in January 2009. Craig says he is not running for re-election.

Ravitz said Boxer had no comment "in the context of the Ethics Committee," but said the panel continues to conduct its preliminary inquiry into the matter.

Sidney Smith, a spokesman for Craig, said Craig was "not concerned about criticizing Senator Boxer's stance on climate change," even though she heads the ethics panel.

Boxer and Craig may be able to debate the bill in Bali, where both are scheduled to attend a U.N. conference next week on climate change.

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Global warming measure advances

Louisiana senators oppose legislation

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

By Bruce Alpert

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted 74-14 Monday to allow debate on a contentious bill that would cap U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions, cutting them by 18 percent by 2020 and by two-thirds by mid-century.

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., voted to begin debate on the global warming bill, although he indicated he would join in a Republican filibuster. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., was in Louisiana and missed the vote. She later expressed a commitment to reduce greenhouse emissions but opposition to the legislation now before the Senate.

Vitter said the bill would raise energy prices even higher and ship more U.S. jobs overseas, without much positive impact on the environment.


"I'm voting to proceed to the bill on the Senate floor because of all this, not despite it. We desperately need to have this debate and get the facts out, particularly in this period of sky-high energy prices," Vitter said. "I'll be working to keep this debate on the Senate floor for quite a while and bring many important arguments and amendments up."

Supporters of the bill said that with new reports warning of stronger hurricanes and rising sea levels, most Americans now back strong action to curb emissions blamed for global warming.

"When it comes to global warming, the American people are ahead of America's politicians," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I, Conn., sponsor of the bill along with Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia and California Democrat Barbara Boxer. "They want us to solve it for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, for future generations of America because they do not want American life to be changed."

The bill targets refineries, power plants, factories and transit systems for 70 percent reductions, but allows companies that can't meet the regulations to buy credits from companies that are exceeding standards. Such a system, proponents said, would minimize the impact.

Supporters, including some major environmental groups, cited a federal report last month predicting significantly greater flood threats in the Gulf Coast over the next century, particularly in New Orleans.

In the New Orleans area, sea levels could rise by as much as 3 feet over the next century, according to the report by the National Science and Technology Council, a federal advisory body.

The higher levels could increase storm surge in areas of metropolitan New Orleans that were heavily populated in 2004, the year before Hurricane Katrina struck, the report said.

Also at risk, the report said, is "an untenable portion" of the Gulf region's road, port and rail facilities.

Landrieu, in a statement, said that the nation must deal with global warming because a dramatic rise in sea levels, changes in precipitation and increased storm intensity "each stand to significantly damage communities and infrastructure of our low-lying Gulf Coast."

But she expressed opposition to the Lieberman-Warner-Boxer bill.

"Louisiana's vibrant energy sector will be disproportionately affected by the bill, which will take a toll on the state's economy," Landrieu said.

President Bush also announced his opposition Monday, calling the bill too costly. Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain has expressed reservations about the bill. But Lieberman, who is bucking his Democratic colleagues by backing the Arizona senator's presidential bid, said McCain embraces strong action to curb greenhouse gases and predicts he will eventually be on board as the bill progresses.