Climate Change Republican Lindsey Graham’s cap-and-tax retreat
The Massachusetts Miracle wasn’t just a wake-up call for Democrats. It was a wake-up call for Big Government Republicans, Business-As-Usual Republicans, McCain Republicans, and Climate Change Republicans. Lindsey Graham is all four, of course.
In October, he penned an enviro-nitwit op-ed with John Kerry signing on to the Democrats’ massive cap-and-tax plan.
He’s singing a different tune now:
Republicans, industry executives and some Democrats have already written cap and trade’s obituary, at least for this year. And even some of the system’s most ardent supporters now say they must scale back their ambitions and focus on job-creating energy projects and energy efficiency measures if they are to have any hope of dealing with climate change in this Congress.
“Realistically, the cap-and-trade bills in the House and the Senate are going nowhere,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who is trying to fashion a bipartisan package of climate and energy measures. “They’re not business-friendly enough, and they don’t lead to meaningful energy independence.”
Mr. Graham said the public was demanding that any energy legislation from Washington focus on creating jobs, whether by drilling for offshore oil or building wind turbines.
“What is dead is some massive cap-and-trade system that regulates carbon in a fashion that drives up energy costs,” he said.
No thanks to you, buddy.
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Has Sen. Graham breathed a word about the ever-exploding ClimateGate scandal? One word? Ever?
The latest on the Himalayan debacle:
The head of a panel of United Nations climate scientists said Saturday he would not resign despite a recent admission that a panel report warning Himalayan glaciers could be gone by 2035 was hundreds of years off.
The claim, made in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s voluminous, Nobel-winning report, came in a paragraph with several errors. Data indicates the ice could melt by 2350. The assertion went virtually unnoticed until The Sunday Times said the projection seemed to be based on a news report.
The scientists are investigating how the forecast got into the report and apologized Thursday for the mistakes, adding that they were not intentional. But the errors have opened the door for attacks from climate change skeptics.
But Rajendra Pachauri, who heads the panel, said no action would be taken against the authors of the report and he would not resign.
“I have no intention of resigning from my position,” Pachauri said on Saturday, adding the errors were unintentional and not significant in comparison to the entire report. The mistakes also do not negate the fact that worldwide, glaciers are melting faster than ever, he said.
He added that such mistakes must be avoided because effective climate change policy depends on good, credible science. He said he is now working on the fifth IPCC assessment report dealing with sea level rise and ice sheets, oceans, clouds and carbon accounting. The report is expected by 2014.
Pew shows global warming is dead last among voters’ concerns.
New Yale and George Mason research shows similar results.
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Flashback November 4, 2009 – Graham panders to the enviro-Leftists. “The green economy is coming.”
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More flashbacks…
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Its because the non-data took this long to sink into that thick skull.
Nothing like Climate Gate to provide a moment of pause.
Talk about your contradictions.
Poor lindsey, he knows cnt is off the radar and now he is against it? He is just like dear john, trying to get his voters back. Sorry, you guys have a record and we voters know it.
L
Yep, and the Empty Suit marches on:
“In the meantime, the White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects — principally, researching and monitoring climate change — and on a new technology research and development program that will one day make human exploration of asteroids and the solar system possible.”
I have some good advice for Lindsey, be careful not to let the door hit you on the way OUT.
Now if he had said something like, “Sorry that I was duped; now I realize it is all a hoax. The government scientists sounded so ~official~ and everything.”
I’d still want him out but at least I’d have a little respect for him.
Never believe anything that comes from the UN….
If he doesn’t get a move on it, he will be trampled by the IPCC leaving the scene
Loopy Lindsey is very fortunate that the voters of South Carolina do not have very good gaydars. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Hey, Grahamnesty – how’s that reaching across the aisles working out for ya?!?
Al Gore’s good buddy Maurice Strong was one of the originators of the UN’s interest in environmental affairs. He was the first director of the United Nations Environment Programme back in 1972.
He once proclaimed,
STOP FEEDING THE UN AND THEY WILL DIE!
I want the platform of my next republican candidate for president to include ENDING our membership in the United Nations.
Dare I even hope that we hear somebody start talking about exploiting our own oil and natural gas resources?
I mean, with manmade global warming on the ropes, we might as well go for the whole enchilada.
I’m sure there are some real Americans out there who wouldn’t turn down a job on a drilling rig, especially if it was on dry land.
I would like to see the conservative movement capitalize on the exposure of climate-gate and rest of the bogus claims. We should stand up to protect our enviroment. We could promote energy efficiency, the expanded use nuclear energy, and use of renewable resources where possible. We come across as wanting to scorch the earth when I kow that is not true. We shoudl be pro-enviroment in a way that does not cripple business and is not a governmental power grab. Many conservatives I know want to “conserve” our enviroment. We should show the world that we are good stewards with a common sense approach to energy production and enviromental protection.
So, did Lindsey perceive a change in the political climate?
During the Republican primaries in 2008, there was a televised debate involving five or six of the candidates currently running. When asked by a show of hands who believed that global warming was a serious problem that needed to be dealt with, the only candidate that I remember did not raise his hand was Fred Thompson. That stand really earned him my respect. I wish he could have been the Republican nominee.
Great, now that you’ve put that out there, he’ll have to marry someone for appearances and then celebrate their first anniversary with separate vacations. Perhaps Charlie Crist could give him some pointers.
Does he have to give the money back to Soros?
Enviro-extremism and green superstition are merely luxuries that some think we can afford when economic times are good, but only the most devout of the kool-aid imbibers will stick with when times are bad.
Graham is an opportunist. When it seemed like enviro-totalitarianism was in vogue, he was solidly in the “I, for one, welcome our new Luddite overlords” camp. But now that we can’t afford that fantasy, the opportunity lies in the other direction.
#13 California Red
Well said. That is what I very clumsily was alluding to in my post.
You mean Lindsey Graham can make change for a nine-dollar bill?
Classic. Only in Washington–and the halls of leftist academia–does a vacuum represent a solid.
*A tiger doesn’t change its’ stripes and Lindsey Grahamnesty will always be a RINO, no matter what he says now; Amnesty will resurface shortly and this rat bastard advocacy pimp for illegal alien amnesty will be front and center; His time to get primaried out or retire will come; We will not forget, as those days are over!
Hey, Lindsey! Go see if your Gang of 14 will help you! Then you can “Tell the bigots to shutup!”
We would never have had this problem had South Carolina elected the ageless beauty Lindsay Wagner instead of that insipidly unctuous snake oil salesman Lindsey Graham. Next time, get your Lindsay’s straight. It’s not hard to tell them apart. One is hot, the other not.
Tis now the season when polymorphic Republican lifeforms take on conservative camouflage trying to blend in.
What? Why is this idiot “working” on anything to do with “climate change” at all? – much less public policy… This shows that he does not get it. What a complete maroon.
He’s kidding, right? Now he gets it? What took so long? Moron!
You just can’t help yourself, can you?
This guy has no spine. What is South Carolina thinking putting this guy in office. They must have a real conservative down there.
Plus, he gives me the creeps.
LOL. HAHAHAHA…. Yes, his little claws are delicately picking and selecting just the right foilage for his shell to blend in with his environment. I’d like to pinch off his antennae.
Haha, do you think Charlie’s beard feels duped after he wasn’t chosen for VP? But regarding Lindsey, I’m not the first. Anyone who’s known any number of gay men can tell he’s one of them. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
No, nothing. Nothing wrong with playing “Hawaiian War Chant” on a trombone, or Rosie O’Donnell wearing a thong on the beach.
Now will someone please inform Newt Gingrich that he is standing on even shakier ground than Lindsey Graham?
I’m all for lowering pollution, but the only “green” jobs that should be coming are jobs that pay people in green money. If solar, wind and other “green” initiatives worked effectively they would be spreading like wildfire. Instead the only way they can is by Gov’t subsidizing them, artificially making them seem profitable.
Eventually these “green” types of energy may pan out, but I am not ready to throw out what does work (nuclear & oil). There was a great program on all the petroleum based products that come from oil (there was about 200 products). One of them was make-up. Without that Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t be able to find enough make-up to cover that grotesque face of hers.
Grahams Lips are moving… but I doubt in truth, his real position has..
Next to Murtha… he is the one guy I am going to cheer the loudest for when he is voted out.
By the way, I guess Michelle Malkin isn’t interested in acknowledging that Ellie Light is not David Axelrod. Shades of Jamil Hussein.
And remember his pushing for amnesty!! He is such a Rino. I only hope that a true conservative runs against him.
HE has stuck his figer into the wind, and has decided to go conservative for a few weeks.
Hope the people remember!
Finger not figer
Maybe he FINALLY read my freaking letter.
Danceswithdachshunds – re: # 33 – I have a feeling that with every dunning robo-call from his Citizens United, Newt loses at least one potential vote. And if my experience with that group (up to 4 calls a day, including weekends, from as many as 5 different phone numbers) is any indicator, he is now well into negative numbers.
1. Marcus Junius Brutus
2. Judas Iscariot
3. Newt Gingrich
I can handle a principled moderate, but Lindsey Graham is only looking out for himself. I hope that SC will come to their senses the next time around and vote this bum out.
Someone should tell Hannity to stop campaigning for Newt in 2012. Hannity is such a tool.
Most politicans, like Graham, have 3 goals when entering office: increase power/profit, get in the “exempt elite”, and spin/pork enough to get re-elected.
I think Lindsey Graham is hearing the whispers of Jenny Sanford primary-ing him in 2014.
Um, doesn’t Michelle control Hot Air, which is the site you linked to?
Michelle, I think you need to put this up in the header. It describes his actions perfectly.
Good call, cousin vinnie.
Yeah, the guy who did it is a one-man astroturf operation. No need for the Ax.
The people are leading. And that is good news. We are tired of the elitists and their arrogance. The dems don’t get it at all. Seems many Republicans are at least getting the message. Those that don’t (Mc Cain, Kirk) need to be defeated in the primaries.
Classic WMD argument from Dems in Congress.
Hopefully, it will be Beltway RINOs disappearing by 2011.
finally the proof is coming to the top of this festering pile of crap. this morning in the peoples republic of maryland, the gubment is going to let peoples houses slip into a creek, because they need to protect a beatle. in california, they are sacrificing agribusinesses and the people who work for downstream fish. we sacrificed the logging industry in the northwest to spotted owls. we are sacrificing the cattle ranching industry to “environmental concerns”. we are sacrificing the oil industry to caribou, and fish.
MAYBE WHAT WE NEED TO SACRIFICE IS 90% OF THE EPA BUDGET.
Hey. The libtards would like everyone to go back to living in mud huts and not having any carbon footprint.
Why not do that. Then we can have a native society with human sacrifice. We’d never run out of “volunteers,” thanks to the number of libtards.
Graham is another RINO that needs to go.
I think he perceived a change when his owner, McCain, cussed him out over it. Something along the lines of “Don’t do this now or they’ll primary me! Wait until after I’m re-elected!”
How do you get the attention of a Missouri mule? Smack in the head with a 2 x 4. Apparently, it’s the same thing with a RINO. Just like the mule, however, don’t turn your back on him, especially after you ‘get his attention’.
did no one run against this POS in the S.C. primaries for the elections of ’08? The Repukes will never be accepted as long as they support RINO’s like this and his pal Juan McAmnesty and have an “R” after their name.
Where was Joe Wilson when Graham was re-elected? Oh Joe, obviously calls ‘em as he sees ‘em…like to know what he thinks of RINO Graham.
I love the term “Settled Science”. It only exists in politics, a real scientist would never call any thing “Settled Science”. It does not exist, Science is constantly changing and loves criticism, this is how scientists get to show their “Theories” are valid, or find problems in their theories that need further work. For this reason no real scientist tries to stifle criticism, they want it, they need it to make theories better, but even the best theories change as our understanding changes. So “Settled Science” is just another political buzz word to shut up critics of the Social Justice agenda.
He may have had an epiphany about cap and trade but, I hope the voters in S.C. give him the boot. Enough with the McCain style compromise and reaching across the aisle to work with liberal’s.
Mini-me McCain has to carry Juan’s water, he has to pretend he’s conservative this year to get reelected. Just like Lindsay had to last year. Don’t worry, if J.D. doesn’t knock off McCain, he will be right there with Lindsay to help their friends across the aisle advance their agenda.
Enemies of the Republic, both of them!
Grahamesty must go.
Send Lindsay and Juan McLame both home. They’ve done enough damage.
Lindsey is a moron. SC voters had very little to choose from, much like the rest of the country….When Political Parties make your choices for you; You get a Lindsey.
Some of these RINO’s know which side of the Tea Cup is best to be. We gotta get rid of guys like these.
Danceswithdachshunds said: Now if he had said something like, “Sorry that I was duped; now I realize it is all a hoax…”
He is an arrogant man and would never admit it. I’ve written his office on this issue and a couple others; his response is always the same. Basically, “don’t bother me, you’re too stupid to understand all the ins-and-outs.” His attitude is exactly what America hates in a politician.
He won re-election when “Dear Leader” got placed. I’m sure he’s happy it wasn’t 2010 or he’d be gone.