A Voice in the Wilderness
A Republican over at Frum’s site has some advice for the GOP that will undoubtedly be ignored:
if Republicans in Congress want to build on their 2010 gains, going on the warpath against environmental protections might be a flawed strategy.
Recent polling and focus group work indicates that roughly three-fourths of Americans ““ including 61 percent of Republicans view EPA’s emissions rules favorably and most want EPA to do even more to hold polluters accountable and protect air and water.
And talk about tilting at windmills:
The need to address climate change is only going to get clearer as time marches on, as is the realization that industry can adapt and thrive with new emission standards. Republicans need to be part of the solution. That cannot happen if they are busy pandering to the climate denier sect and siding with our worst corporate citizens””those who seek every advantage no matter what the cost to others.
That’s about the most common sense I’ve heard on a Monday in years.
On the second quote, I wouldn’t be so sure. Pandering to the evolution denier set is a technique that has thrived for years, despite an embarrassment of scientific riches on the subject.
The backlash is going to be huge, and I’m not talking about the backlash the donkey from Frum’s site, and you, are dreaming about. The issue is clearly not if “industry can adapt and thrive”, but if the American people can adapt and thrive. Industry pays nothing, they profit or quit. Of course a huge percentage of the public wants the EPA to regulate harmful emissions, to keep our water and air clean. The notion that CO2 is harmful is absurd. Can anything be a non-pollutant, if CO2 is deemed a pollutant? IMO, when the backlash happens, it will propel the left to oblivion. With that being said, I hope the EPA is successful.
[Just so there’s no confusion for readers: this Keith is not me.//KK]
That’s funny you felt the need to clarify. I know your readers didn’t need the clarification, but who am I to say, you know your readers better than I do.
Nothing personal, it’s just that you might be the first reader with the same first name as me whose commented on this site.
Keith Grubb, the clarification helped me, fwiw…
I didn’t take it as personal bro, just thought it was funny. U Da Man!
Good one Tom. I will say I’m suprised at your most common sense Monday post. Didn’t you write a book about Climategate? U Da Man too!
Climategate? Oh, yeah, I remember Climategate… Isn’t Udaman an open-source software initiative? Ubuntu, Udaman…
“protect air and water”.
I would agree. When people have been brainwashed so successfully, that it would be foolhardy not to defer to the beliefs have come to hold.
“The need to address climate change is only going to get clearer as time marches on”
Shome mishtake here. The greenies say that climate change is already on us and around us and It’s really very hard to pretend that we need more awareness.
Maybe people can see that its all a big hoax…
Nice post Keith. Just spent a week in D.C. talking to folks about the EPAs forthcoming battles and now in Texas, I needed to be reminded that all is not lost 🙂
Marlowe, all is lost. No one reads Frum.
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